Developing safe and sustainable food production for its population has been central to China's 'Modernisation Project'. Yet recent fieldwork in three Chinese cities suggests that there are two conflicting views on what a 'modern' agriculture should look like. For the government, modernisation implies a rational calculation of scale and a mirroring of global trends. But an alternative interpreta...

Mobile radio and Internet communications services are penetrating our society at an exponential rate of growth. The Internet is the most important driving force towards establishing a multimedia society. Mobile communication systems add an important capability to our communications society, i.e., mobility. The third generation mobile communications system called IMT-2000 is expected to play an ...

The God of Small Things is set in the post-partition India which deals with cultural and societal change fluidity Indian society caused under influence westernized culture values, while predominantly dealing stereotypical, discriminatory unfair treatment certain gender cast. study an attempt to look into how people tend be seduced by some specific values discard others even when they are moving...

An analysis of the contemporary social life (ethical subjectivity and axiological awareness) allows to ascertain many interesting observations considering the balance of transformations that have taken place within it, which probably arise in the nearer or longer term, and finally the changes that are currently in in statu nascendi. Evolution indicated here is a derivative of passing of our soc...

modernity is a reality that formed in framework of the enlightenment movement and histo-cultural context of west european countries as an internal process. because of the disseminating nature of modernity, its waves spread across the non-western countries. this article focuses on the outcomes of imported modernity in intellectual level of the non-western countries. for analyzing this topic, rus...

If there is one agreement between theorists of modernity and those of post-modernity, it is about the centrality of consumption to modern capitalism and contemporary culture. To thinkers as different as Werner Sombart, Emile Durkheim and Thorstein Veblen at the turn of the twentieth century, consumption was a decisive force behind modern capitalism, its dynamism and social structure. More recen...