This article has evolved from a research project following a micro-level approach to the postwar ‘agricultural revolution’. Above all, it focuses on the diversity of post-1945 agricultural development, i.e. the various ways farming actors experienced, interpreted and acted upon the natural and societal structures of their rural lifeworlds, thereby reproducing and/or transforming the local, regi...

Collective decisions are ubiquitous in complex democratic societies. Elections, referenda, decisions in legislatures, committees, multimember courts, expert panels, and boards of companies or other organizations are all examples. In such decisions, disagreement is equally ubiquitous. People disagree with each other on many levels. They disagree not only on what choices should be made but also o...

Islamic Banking is growing at a rapid speed and has showed unprecedented growth and expansion in last two decades in spite of mismatching of existing financial framework and business practices. By the end of 2008 volume of Islamic banking has reached to US $ 951 Billion with operation in more than 50 countries. Middle East is the centre of Islamic banking with contribution of approximately 80% ...

from the very beginning, the political fiqh could not play an efficient role in the social arena. but, now the question is whether the political fiqh can satisfy all the individual, social, spiritual, political, economical, judiciary, and international needs of the time. some have considered most affairs and issues related to the state as reasonable, and as a result, not related to fiqh and inf...

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 The purpose of this paper is to investigated how effective the GCG/annual report, and Sustainability, are in presenting information on performance Sharia banking Indonesia applying sharia reporting criteria. This analysis will bring up report based a copy Financial Services Authority Republic Indonesia's Circular Letter No. 10 / SEOJK.03/2020 Transparency Report Publication for...

the study of the sign, in transition from the structural semiotic and narrative system, has entered a new area called the discursive sign-semantics. the first phase is based on the contrasting relations between semantic poles and the second is based on the program and transformation from the first condition to the second. however, this new approach, influenced by phenomenology, has opened a new...

This article outlines one tradition of qualitative research in social psychology, that of discourse analysis and discursive research. It proposes that the tradition offers an alternative conceptualisation of a psychosocial subject to accounts which draw on psychoanalytic theorising. The article reviews some of the problems around conceptualising a subject in discursive terms, then sets out some...

Voice quality is a vital but understudied sociolinguistic feature in constructing style and personae. This study examines stylistic performances of character types Beijing Mandarin, to understand how voice varies comes conventionally associated with social meanings. Acoustic analysis recorded shows that dynamic variable should be examined from the lens different linguistic discursive levels. Co...