To enter the teaching profession, apart from basic requirements set by the government, there are many other ‘rules of the game’ and ‘open secret criteria’ determining who gets included or excluded from being a teacher. The culture of aafnojat (person from own caste) and aafnomanchhe (own relatives) are found to be the most prominent ones. In this paper, I discuss that the issue of inclusion and...

This paper explores the impact that increased exposure to China during the two and a half weeks of the Beijing Olympics had on American attitudes towards China. A large N longitudinal survey revealed a significant increase in negative attitudes towards China from the beginning to the end of August 2008. Statistical analysis revealed no dominant explanation for this change, however. Instead, per...

For discrete manufacturers mainline business processes and core business data of the sort, based on workflow and integrated management of the dominant ideology, given the kind of enterprise information system integration of basic principles; On this basis, proposed based on “CAD / CAPP / PLM / ERP “integrated model integration framework to study the integration logic and data model: given based...

An attributional analysis of reactions to poverty is presented. The article begins by discussing the perceived causes of poverty and their taxonomic properties (locus, stability, and controllability). One antecedent of causal beliefs, political ideology, is then examined in detail, followed by a review of the effects of causal beliefs on emotions and behavior. It is contended that helping the p...

This paper is concerned with thinking through the cultural construction of personal identities whilst avoiding the classical social-individual division. Our starting point is the notion that there is no such thing as 'the individual', standing outside the social; however, there is an arena of personal subjectivity, even though this does not exist other than as already inscribed in the sociocult...

How does education affect racial attitudes? Past studies focus almost exclusively on Whites' attitudes toward Blacks, neglecting important minority populations. This study extends previous research by analyzing the effects of education on beliefs about racial stereotypes, discrimination, and affirmative action policies among Whites, Asians, Hispanics, and Blacks. Results indicate that Whites, H...

• We examined the relation between political ideology and racial categorization. • People categorized morphed faces that ranged from 100% Black to 100% White. • Conservatism (vs. liberalism) was associated with the tendency to categorize racially ambiguous faces as Black. • Relation between ideology and categorization was mediated by opposition to equality. • This research helps to explain the ...

ABSTRAK Artikel ini membahas ideologi dan aparatus negara dalam tiga cerpen karya Putu Wijaya. Penelitian menggunakan paradigma Abrams, yaitu pendekatan objektif diskurtif. Pendekatan digunakan untuk menganalisis unsur-unsur intrinsik diskurtif membongkar dengan perspektif Louis Althusser. Pengumpulan data dilakukan studi pustaka mengandalkan jenis kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menujukkan bahwa ...

This article focuses on the consolidation of naval hygiene practices during the Victorian era, a period of profound medical change that coincided with the fleet's transition from sail to steam. The ironclads of the mid- to late- nineteenth century offered ample opportunities to improve preventive medicine at sea, and surgeons capitalised on new steam technologies to provide cleaner, dryer, and ...

This paper looks at European integration and specifi cally its institutional form – the Union from an ideological perspective. The author claims that ‘Europeanism’ has become a new ideology shared among intellectual, political, judicatory, societal, even dominant economic elites influence or shape as institution major policies. As ideology, is somewhat exotic mixture of various, seemingly incoh...