نتایج جستجو برای: western societies

تعداد نتایج: 211561  

2002
Margo Wilson Martin Daly

Violence against wives occurs in all societies, but the rates at which wives are beaten and killed are enormously variable over time and place. The rate of uxoricide (wife killing) in the United States, for example, is currently approximately five to ten times greater than in western Europe. In some societies, wife beating is normative and allegedly almost universal; in others, it is apparently...

2008
FRANCIS ROBINSON

From the beginning of the Islamic era, Muslim societies have experienced periods of renewal (tajdid). Since the eighteenth century, Muslim societies across the world have been subject to a prolonged and increasingly deeply felt process of renewal. This has been expressed in different ways in different contexts. Amongst political elites with immediate concerns to answer the challenges of the Wes...

2008
KENNETH L. LEONARD JOHN A. LIST

We use a controlled experiment to explore whether there are gender differences in selecting into competitive environments across two distinct societies: the Maasai in Tanzania and the Khasi in India. One unique aspect of these societies is that the Maasai represent a textbook example of a patriarchal society, whereas the Khasi are matrilineal. Similar to the extant evidence drawn from experimen...

Journal: :Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009
Daniel H Sandweiss Ruth Shady Solís Michael E Moseley David K Keefer Charles R Ortloff

Between approximately 5,800 and 3,600 cal B.P. the biggest architectural monuments and largest settlements in the Western Hemisphere flourished in the Supe Valley and adjacent desert drainages of the arid Peruvian coast. Intensive net fishing, irrigated orchards, and fields of cotton with scant comestibles successfully sustained centuries of increasingly complex societies that did not use ceram...

Journal: :Developmental medicine and child neurology 1991
R G Barr M Konner R Bakeman L Adamson

The pattern of crying and fretting behavior during the first two years is described for 46 !Kung San infants from a hunter-gatherer society in northwestern Botswana. Despite markedly different caretaking practices predisposing to quieter infants, crying and fretting were significantly greater during the first three months, and a peak pattern was present. Measurement of crying 'intensity' indica...

2016
Kuba Krys C. -Melanie Vauclair Colin A. Capaldi Vivian Miu-Chi Lun Michael Harris Bond Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa Claudio Torres Ottmar V. Lipp L. Sam S. Manickam Cai Xing Radka Antalíková Vassilis Pavlopoulos Julien Teyssier Taekyun Hur Karolina Hansen Piotr Szarota Ramadan A. Ahmed Eleonora Burtceva Ana Chkhaidze Enila Cenko Patrick Denoux Márta Fülöp Arif Hassan David O. Igbokwe İdil Işık Gwatirera Javangwe María Malbran Fridanna Maricchiolo Hera Mikarsa Lynden K. Miles Martin Nader Joonha Park Muhammad Rizwan Radwa Salem Beate Schwarz Irfana Shah Chien-Ru Sun Wijnand van Tilburg Wolfgang Wagner Ryan Wise Angela Arriola Yu

Smiling individuals are usually perceived more favorably than non-smiling ones-they are judged as happier, more attractive, competent, and friendly. These seemingly clear and obvious consequences of smiling are assumed to be culturally universal, however most of the psychological research is carried out in WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) and the influen...

Journal: :Proceedings. Biological sciences 2011
Fritha H Milne Debra S Judge

The higher costs of sons compared with daughters extends to a negative effect of brothers on the lifetime reproductive success of their siblings in subsistence and preindustrial societies. In societies with fewer resource constraints, one might expect that these effects would be limited or non-existent. This study investigates the costs of brothers and sisters in a contemporary western society ...

2012
Subramaniam Chandran

This paper analyses the structural changes in education sector since the introduction of liberalization policy in India. This paper explains how the so-called non-profit trusts and societies appropriated the liberalization policy and enhanced themselves as new capitalist class in higher education sector. Over the decades, the policy witnessed the role of private sector in terms of maintaining m...

Journal: :Circulation 1974
L B Page A Damon R C Moellering

Cardiovascular risk factors have been analyzed as part of a combined ethnographic, anthropometric, and medical study of 1390 adult subjects in defined populations representing six Solomon Islands Societies. The six societies, all at low levels of acculturation, differed in habitat, way of life, and exposure to Western civilization. Criteria for ranking the societies in respect to acculturation ...

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