Theorizing Citizenship in Late Modern ICT Societies

Citizenship and Identity in Diverse Societies

This article examines the relationship between the legal status of citizenship and psychological research about blended identity in diverse societies such as Australia. A blended identity could include Australian national identity as well as other identities relevant to a person’s selfdefinition. Analysing the link between citizenship law and the psychological enjoyment of blended identity is i...

Con ict and the Evolution of Societies

The Malthusian theory of evolution disregards a pervasive fact about human societies: they expand through con ict. When this is taken account of the long-run favors not a large population at the level of subsistence, nor yet institutions that maximize welfare or per capita output, but rather institutions that maximize free resources. These free resources are the output available to society afte...

A Comparative Study on the Status of Elderly In the Traditional and Modern Societies

Over the past two centuries, the rapid socio-economic transformations along with substantial advances in medicine have resulted in decrease of mortality rate, the significant increase of life expectancy, and the growth of the population aging. In despite of the increased proportion of elderly in the recent periods, their status has significantly decreased. Elderly in the traditional societies h...

Theorizing and Rethinking Linkages Between the Natural Environment and the Modern World - System : Deforestation in the Late 20 th Century *

In tracing world ecological degradation over a period of fi ve millennia, Sing Chew (2001) points out that “...the history of civilizations...and states is also the history of ecological degradation and crisis...[as such]...ecological relation is as primary as the economic relation in the self-expansionary processes of societal systems...” (pp. 1–2). Particularly over the last half of the twent...

The Significance of Traditional Islamic Art for the Life of Muslim Societies in the Modern World