INTRODUCTION Older adults with chronic pain who seek treatment often are in a health care environment that emphasizes patient-directed care, a change from the patriarchal model of care to which many older adults are accustomed. OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences of older adults seeking treatment for chronic pain, with respect to patient-directed care and the patient-provider relationship. ...

language is the product of cultural interaction and producing various languages different cultures manifest the world in many forms.language and culture are connected with each other to such an extent that study of language apart from society is nothing but absurdity. the studies connected with relationship between language and culture by malinofski's research in the beginning of twentieth...

girls in india face discrimination from cradle to grave in different forms and in different arenas of life. however, it is long survival of women compare to men (due to menopause older women free from risk of bearing children in later life and live longer (cromie, 1998), which makes them 48% of population (census, 2011). at every step, she is in patriarchal shackles with no opportunity to escap...

© 2011. The Authors. Licensee: OpenJournals Publishing. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The article, from a gender-sensitive perspective, is critical of patriarchal values that are harmful to women and other non-dominant groups. When the focus on women and women’s roles is usurped by male control, the androcentric self-interest of interpreters and authors b...

Some 35 years ago, the Club of Rome pub­ lished a book that sold more than 30 million copies across 30 different translations (Donella Meadows et al. 1972). The book predicted the collapse of modern society if population growth, resource depletion, and pollution proceeded unabated. More recently, the Millennium Eco­ system Assessment echoed similar sentiments, documenting the loss of vital ecos...

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...