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Human Rights, Gender and Discrimination: An Appraisal on Gender Impacts on Culture and Religion, Education and Workplace in Nigeria

Author(s): Wisdom Momodu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Human rights; gender equality; discrimination; workplace; culture and religion;

Gender equality or non-discrimination has been recognized in a wide range of binding and none binding international human rights instruments, including declarations and other standards e.g. Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted in 1979 and came into force 3Sept. 1981, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of1965, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights etc. International and national law chiefly regulated discrimination as it relates to gender equality when addressing cases of human rights. Equal treatment of men and women in the workplace around the globe including Nigeria is faced with several challenges. In recent time, women have made progress in the educational sector and despite their educational attainments; they are faced with discrimination at the workplace. The discrimination witnessed by women on a daily basis is not distant from the level of education or access to education as well as culture and religion, which equally regulate rights and duties of women in various backgrounds. This paper addresses human rights as it relates to gender and discrimination by appraising gender impacts on culture and religion, education, and workplace under Nigerian perspective. State party’s obligation under international and or national law in human rights protection under civil and political rights as well as economic social and cultural rights will also be addressed.In conclusion, possible reforms are suggested, which includes adopting national human rights legislation dealing specifically on discrimination in the workplace

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Kazakhstan in a Mirror of the World’s Mass Media

Author(s): Ardak Yesdauletova,Aitmukhanbet Yesdauletov,Kairat Sakh / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Kazakhstan; mass media; image; newspapers; internet; information;

Kazakhstan proclaimed its independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. In March 1992 the Republic of Kazakhstan became a member of the United Nations Organization. This event and diplomatic recognition by many of countries symbolized the entry of the young state into the world community. In December 2016 Kazakhstan celebrated the 25th anniversary as a sovereign state. TV broadcasting and print media broadly covered a lot of achievements of the country.The aim of our presentation is to reveal how the world’s mass media covered Kazakhstan and what image it had in other countries. Internet played an important role in disseminating information. People were able to get some knowledge from the foreign sources. They can evaluate the foreign and domestic policies of a certain state.It was possible to determine its achievements and challenges through mass media.The main achievements of Kazakhstan connected with dynamic economic development, political stability and initiatives in the sphere of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Criticism on the part of western media concerned such fields as democratic values and human rights.

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Pros and Cons of Demonetization as a Major Economic Leap Forward

Author(s): Shaktiraj Bhavsar / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Policy; Demonetization; Economy; Government;

Marking half of his elected term as India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced the Policy of Demonetization. Primarily aimed at eradicating black money, this policy caught the nation off-guard, resulting in financial chaos. The old unit of currency and its highest denominations that were the notes of rupees 500 and 1000 were demonetized and pulled out of the total cash flow in the country. These two denominations constituted 86% of the domestic cash supply. The objective of this paper to systematically analyze the consequences of this bold and unexpected policy through the secondary data. This policy change was strategically placed to block financial funding to terrorist organizations at the Kashmir border.

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Flipping the Script for Skilled Immigrant Women:

Author(s): Dalon Taylor / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: skilled immigrant women; critical social work; economic migration

Research on skilled immigrant women revealed that they are losing their professional skills and career identity due to lack of employment and underemployment, postmigration. These negative outcomes in employment are reported as key factors in the economic instability they face in host countries. On the other hand, reports indicate that economic growth for host countries have increased through skilled immigration. In fact, countries such as Canada, United States, Australia and others, continue to revise their immigration policies to attract more highly skilled immigrants, due to reported benefits. So how are skilled immigrant women, in particular, coping with the negative impact of skilled migration that is more favorable for host countries? More importantly, what suggestions for changes and action might critical social work offer to transform current disproportionate outcomes?This paper provides a brief discussion of the reported labor market outcomes for skilled immigrant women in Canada. It includes a critical assessment of the challenges they face to re-enter the labor market in Canada and argue that the current outcomes are direct manifestations of discriminatory practices, beyond the scope of the labor market alone. The paper highlights reported economic benefits of skilled migration for host countries such as Canada, and raise questions about possible systemic actors in the substandard results for skilled immigrant women. The paper draws on a critical social work perspective to discuss alternatives to improving outcomes for skilled immigrant women and concludes with suggestions for changes in the current social and employment prospects for skilled immigrant women.

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Study on the Relationship between Mental Health and Teaching Efficacy of Chinese Secondary School Teachers

Author(s): Qiu-yan Chen,Zhang Chen-guang,Cao Xuan,Zha Shu-yi,Yang Xun,Cheng Ke / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: secondary school teachers; mental health; teaching efficacy

In this study, “Symptom Checklist 90, (SCL-90)” and “Teachers’ teaching Efficacy Scale” were used in stratified sampling survey to 260 teachers in Chengdu to explore the relation between Mental Health and Teaching Efficacy. The results showed that: (1) Secondary school teachers’ SCL-90 scores were significantly higher than the national norm; (2) In terms of “Teachers’ teaching Efficacy Scale” scores and “personal teaching efficacy” scores, there were significant differences among teachers of different teaching ages; (3) there was a significantly negative correlation between mental health and the total score of teaching efficacy including the scores of all dimensions. The dimensions of symptoms such as depression and paranoid had a negative effect on teaching efficacy.

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The Migrant Smuggling Crime in Romania

Author(s): Nicoleta-Elena Buzatu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: migrant; illegal migration; crime; organized crime; Romanian Criminal Code

The study below is meant to focus on the migrant smuggling crime in Romania, especially the analysis of the migrant smuggling infraction provided in the Romanian Criminal Code. Being a component of the human trafficking activity, the illegal migration is a phenomenon that is continuously extending and harder to stop due to the involvement of the organized crime networks and also due the ingenuousness and maliciousness of the people and the criminals. Therewith, the migrant smuggling is highly connected with drug trafficking, terrorism etc., aspects that are connected with the organized crime. Legally, there are many differences between the source states, the transit states or the destination states, that is slowing the fight of the states for combating this scourge. During this fight of preventing and stopping the illegal migrant smuggling, the states that are involved aligned their own legal frame to the international one in the activity field, by elaborating and promoting the regulatory acts that have been putting the responsibility on the governmental and non-governmental institution in this activity field.

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Macgowan and Innovation in Stage Design

Author(s): Daniel Kurz,Hyunjin Kang / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: set designer; theatrical arts; Macgowan, innovator

In April of 1919, the roar of the guns of the Great War had only been silent for a few months. Between that fateful November of 1918 and April of the next year, the world of international politics, economics, and medicine would be challenged by several factors. The collapse of Germany, the establishment of the Soviet Union, the wrath of the Great Influenza, and the return of millions of men from the front would transform society in new ways. It was in this historical moment that modernism began to flourish, and it would continue to do so well into the 1920’s. The Imperial age of neoclassicism, romanticism and opera was fading while a new approach to art emerged (Cozzolino 2016, 13-15). In the immediate post-war era, each art form had its own innovator or innovators. There had been innovators before, but never in history had the ideas and institutions of the “Old World” been so thoroughly discredited as they were in the Aftermath of World War I. In architecture it was The Bauhaus and Art Deco; in literature cynical greats like Hemingway and Fitzgerald would reign supreme. Dali and Picasso’s lusty abstractions dominated painting. All were bridges between what was and what is. In stage design, the same process was occurring, though the names have been forgotten except by experts. Few remember these men and women, but their influence would inspire many luminaries in contemporary entertainment that Americans would instantly recognize: Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, George Lucas and both Coppolas, Frances Ford and Sofia (Fitch 1983, 42-45). One of these forgotten names is Kenneth Macgowan.

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Born Globals (BGs): Who Are They?

Author(s): Hamza El Guili / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: SMEs; Internationalization; Born globals; Early internationalization

The acceptance and recognition of born global firms (BGs) as relevant and singular organizations across the world’s economy has been flourishing in the recent years. Born globals are commonly entrepreneurial and relatively young small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), with limited resources. Although these restrictions and constraints, BGs initiate their internationalization process from early stages. Thus, they conduct their internationalization process more rapidly than traditional firms operating in domestic markets and using incremental processes. Nevertheless, theories on BGs are still not fully developed by researchers. Few studies have tried to advance theoretical reflections on born global firms and their internationalization. This paper examines how research on BGs internationalization has emerged and its development over time. Furthermore, it identifies the challenges faced by these firms when they internationalize and gives future research suggestions to academicians for the advance of the research in the internationalization of born global firms.

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Interdependence and superordinate goals: The revenge of the dualists

Author(s): W.F. Lawless / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: interdependence; goals, social sciences

Appearances can be misleading, but not in the social sciences. Based on the statistical aggregation of intuitions (observations, self-reports, interviews) about reality across individuals that converge while seeking a 1:1 relation, the primary model of decision making attempts to make intuitions rational. But despite its many claims to the contrary, the social sciences have failed in building a successful predictive theory, including in economics where the results from this failure, re-labeled as irrational, have won Nobel prizes, yet irrational humans in freely organized and competitive teams strangely manage to be extraordinarily innovative. In contrast to traditional social science, the most predictive theory in all of science is the quantum theory, each prediction confirmed by new discoveries leading to new predictions and further discoveries, but the dualist nature of the quantum theory makes it counterintuitive despite more than a century of intense, unflagging debate. By re-introducing dualism into social science with a quantum-like theory of social interdependence, we offer an opportunity to rehabilitate social science by successfully making predictions and new discoveries about human teams that account for the abysmal performance of interdisciplinary science teams; that generalizes to the newly arising problem of how to engineer hybrid teams (arbitrary combinations of autonomous humans, machines and robots); and that explains the counterintuitive prediction that highly interdependent teams do not generate Shannon information, but instead “darken” as a team becomes perfect, meaning, intuitively, that structural information about a team can be gained only under competition (i.e., perturbation theory).

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The Role of the Individual and of the Social Environment in the Value System

Author(s): Galina Martea / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: system of values; individual; society; identity; development;

The presence of the human being in the value system, as an identity and social personality, is the action that produces positive effects in the development of a society. In turn, society, a complementary identity in the existence of people, is that component that defines and motivates the importance of actions based on the ideas and decisions made by the individual. Thus, the human being promotes its content within the system of values, and society becomes accomplice both in man's existence and in the existence of values. Respectively, through his actions, the individual develops their own society and, at the same time, creates their image in evolutionary processes. Correspondingly, human actions are made available to society, them being a beneficial support in improving living conditions, in developing the level of culture and education, in preserving and supplementing spiritual values founded by humankind over time, etc. Thus, the social welfare element identifies a country, a community, based on its own system of values. And through its own system of values, the individual and their society are manifested, and each of them continually complements themselves, aiming at new things, evolutionary and full of essence. Thus, through the human intellect, the development process of society is constantly being developed and perfected, and the value, as a priority substance, maintains its verticality through the evolutionary processes of civilization and the process of identifying its own personality.

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Are Codes of Business Ethics Ethical?

Author(s): Willy Tadjudje,Clément Labi / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: ethics; business ethics; ethical codes; corporate governance

In response to a quickly evolving legal environment and more generally to changing conceptions about the role and responsibilities of the corporation and its executives, many firms have adopted codes of ethics whose legal relevance is uncertain, and whose relation to actual ethics is largely problematic. First, it is necessary to analyze the theoretical model of these codes, as business environments tend to be assessed in terms of “business ethics”, which is conceptually difficult not to discount, since ethics should possess a universalist vocation, hence the necessity to seek whether there could be a variety of ethics which could bear the same validity. More generally, can individuals (or corporations) bestow upon themselves any set of chosen ethical rules? We propose that ethical codes actually mimic and anticipate what legislators or judges have (or will have) considered as ethical behaviors. Since the law is itself an imitation of ethical rules, codes of business ethics are therefore imitations of imitations. The works of Kant and Levinas, in particular, will serve as points of reference.

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Climate Change, Endangered Environment and Vulnerable Aboriginals of India – A Critical Study

Author(s): Gouri Sankar Bandyopadhyay / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: climate change; damage to environment; indian aboriginal; livelihood; vulnerability;

ABSTRACT: The severe effects of unprecedented climate change are justifiably considered a serious threat to human civilization in general and tribal-rural or aboriginal population in particular. The crisis has been identified globally but its consistently negative effects on indigenous people of the developing countries are not properly measured. In India such effects are projected to impact the millions of lives in folk-tribal heartland. It is historically proved that various effects of climate change such as sea level rise, recurrent floods, draughts, evaporation, increased cyclonic activities like tsunami, rising temperature have badly affected the downtrodden backward people like ‘adivasis’ (Indian tribal) and their tradition-bound livelihood in this subcontinent. Due to changed weather pattern agricultural production has been rapidly declined in the last few decades in India. The present study needs to state that if climate change occurs in such way, India will lose land especially in the coastline and the rural economy will be affected drastically. In fact, climate change is a scary prospect especially for these rural populations whose culture is predominantly subsistence-based and non-urbanized in basic nature. The paper also tries to focus on the age-old indigenous awareness of ills of global warming and ongoing climatic change. The forested tribes have raised again and again their voices against the abrupt tree-falling and the timber merchant-contractors-politicians nexus that lies behind it. Growing social awareness of climate change and balanced sustainable development can minimize the vulnerability of these marginal populations.

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How Globalization has Changed Diplomacy

Author(s): Sophie Nanyonga / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: diplomacy; globalization; international relations; integration; communication;

Globalization, which refers to the changes in time and space is perhaps one of the most significant events in this century. It has brought with it, unique changes in communication, trade, mobility, international security, and migration. Some have argued that its impact has further weakened the place and role of the state in international politics, given many actors who have emerged in this process. This paper seeks to examine how the changes in time and space are affecting diplomatic relations among states. While it is true that several actors are today playing some roles previously reserved for the state, the field of diplomacy seems to have been protected from non-state actors as government representatives still dominate diplomatic channels. By looking at events such as the Gulf Cooperation Council’s role in the Yemen Political crisis and Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) role in Gambia’s political turmoil, a new form of regionalized diplomacy is seen. The case of the Syrian crisis also has realized a shift from bilateral to multilateral diplomacy. The writer argues that the changes in space have had little effect on diplomacy but rather the changes in time, largely associated with the rapid flow of information have transformed how diplomacy is practiced today. The paper adopts a qualitative research approach and relies on data from secondary sources like textbooks, among others.

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Hermeneutical Resemblance in Rudolf Bultmann and Thich Nhat Hanh

Author(s): Joel (J.T.) Young / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Rudolf Bultmann; Thich Nhat Hanh; Demythologization; Zen Buddhism; Christianity;

Over the last several decades, academic theology in America has seen a resurgence of interest in the 20th century German-speaking theological movement known as “dialectical theology.” While primarily focusing on the theology of Swiss Reformed theologian, Karl Barth, there has also been a revival of curiosity in Barth’s academic rival, Rudolf Bultmann, who cultivated the controversial program of “demythologization.” Though the recovery of Bultmann’s work in English-speaking circles is historically valuable to our understanding of how modern theology progressed, the question still stands as to how it might aid our dialogue in an increasingly pluralistic world. Unpacking one such opportunity is the aim of this paper. Through dialogue with the Zen Buddhism of Thich Nhat Hanh, I show how different contours of Bultmann’s thought can aid us in understanding and approaching interreligious discourse through hermeneutical consistencies and resemblance. While this paper discusses several different aspects of Bultmann’s and Nhat Hanh’s religious thought, the consistencies and resemblance between the two individual thinkers are, no doubt, emblematic of greater Familienähnlichkeit between their respective faith traditions – a topic to be taken up at a later time.

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The Banking Fragility Index Panorama in China

Author(s): Yunyi Wang / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Banking; Fragility; China; Regression;

The Banking Fragility Index Panorama in ChinaThe corresponding impact on china’s banking system is becoming the focus issues of international economy and has become the major theoretical and practical issues for China to deal with the increasingly complex international economic situation. Since 2004 the formation mechanism reform started, China’s banking system experienced a steady development and the supervision on banking fragility keeps pace with times to meet the requirement of operation. How to measure a bank’s operational performance is not get to a conclusion in academic field. This paper aims to review the measurement of banking fragility index of Western and Eastern world and using data on Chinese banks to develop an index of banking fragility and subsequently examine the factors affecting the index. Industry analysis will be introduced in this paper. The academic debates on factors affecting banking fragility index are analyzed and this paper will choose a number of widely-used index for the regression test. The findings about the effective countermeasures to the banking fragility Chinese banks facing as well as the objectives of the financial reform are discussed. A conclusion presents the resulting implications for further research.

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Humans beyond Earth

Author(s): Nicholas Kwon,David Douglas Klein / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: mission to Mars; space exploration; NASA; NASA private partnerships;

Humans have been a wildly curious species for millennia. From traveling across unmapped oceans to the first lunar steps, mankind had the ambition to explore dangerous, uncharted destinations. In 1966, the NASA budget was 4.41% of the Federal budget. Fifty years later, NASA’s budget was 0.50% of the Federal budget. While there is still strong interest in intermediate space, that's because it’s in the comfort zone of commercial interests with profit motives. We as a species need to resist this sole motivation. Many companies and governments won’t invest in a manned expedition to Mars since the profits would take decades to manifest (if there are any profits at all). However, recently a new breed of billionaires, including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, realized the importance of investing in a Mars mission because of the positive impact for humanity later. Making a habitable colony for humans on Mars will be extraordinarily difficult - Mars is a hostile environment, but over time, impossible journeys evolve from difficult challenges to success. A trip to Mars would represent a leap in our maturity, a revitalization of the human spirit that charges into the unknown to understand and use it. This paper will research the challenges of getting to Mars and why we should go there. Who knows, we may find life under the dunes of Mars and discover we aren't the only ones.

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Teaching Children of Color

Author(s): Delia Robinson Richards / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Cultural sensitivity; Diverse learners; Multiple Intelligence Theory, “All About Me” Profile; English Language Learners (ELL);

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss teaching and learning strategies that will generate encouragement and support with cultural sensitivity for diverse learners. Three Key Learning Objectives: (1) Recognize and identify the different learning styles of diverse learners, (2) Develop and support differentiation instruction to meet the needs of diverse Learners, (3) Construct and summarize effective teacher characteristics to engage diverse learners in reaching their maximum potential. This presentation will be information for early childhood educators to locate information on challenges that they can encounter and solutions to solve these challenges. The presenter will discuss how the following components are relevant for teaching children of color and how relevant these components are to building positive self-esteem in children of color. These are (1) the teacher’s attitude, (2) the learning style of the students in the classroom, (3) the parent/family’s role in the education of the student, (4) exploring the student’s cultural background and (5) resources that are available. The components will be critical in helping each student reach their maximum potential. This paper will demonstrate how to meet the needs of the diverse learners by empowering teachers, families, and students. The information will service all educators, including novice and tenure teachers, families, and administrators. Educators can use the information as a referral guide that will demonstrate respect and appreciation for the diverse learners.

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When Jungle Order Rocks the Boat of Legal Order: Inevitability of State Stability for the Peace and Security of Mankind in Africa

Author(s): Simeon A. Igbinedion / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: legal order; jungle order; law and order; peace and security; freedom and liberty;

This paper discusses the disorder that characterizes the legal order of the modern state in parts of Africa. The capacity to maintain law and order and to exercise monopoly over means of coercion constitutes some of the raison d’etre of the Westphalian state model that pervades every nook and cranny of the continent. However, the inability of the state to meet the existential exigencies of its citizens and, ipso facto, its consequent loss of legitimacy, has generated a groundswell of discontent that has triggered the emergence of centrifugal forces – non-state actors – variously described as rebels, insurrectionists, insurgents, armed bandits, separatist agitators, terrorists, amongst others. But although these forces initially set out as viable alternatives to the state, they soon lose track and threaten not only the peace and security of the state but also of everyone else including their compatriots and neighbouring or contiguous states. Amidst the incapacity of the state to reclaim its lost power or glory, these non-state actors create a jungle order that harks back at Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature where life is short, nasty and brutish. Such has become the lot of so many states in Africa. From Nigeria to Central African Republic through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Somalia, the narrative is similar. This paper examines the background and the foreground of the failure of the legal orders of the state, the disaster that armed non-state actors have become for their compatriots and territorial neighbours and the reluctance of the international community to effectively respond to restore order. Finally, the paper suggests some ways in which the legal order of the state can be rejuvenated in such a way as to be able to meet contemporary needs of law and order on the one hand and freedom and liberty on the other.

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The Role of Forensics in Criminal Investigations

Author(s): Andreea Roxana Tudor / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: criminal investigations; criminal offenses; forensics; victims;

We intend to discuss in this paper about forensics and the role it has it in for discovery, investigation of criminal offenses and to identify persons involved in committing them based on other sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics. The basic ideas which we will discuss are the first steps taken in the investigation of homicide, peculiarities research on site in case of murder, the peculiarities of the research killing depending on means and methods used by the perpetrator to suppress the victim's life, activities for investigation of murder, development version prosecution valuations type personality profiling the offender and carry out criminal prosecution.

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Social Representations of Violence against Women in Cuba Is It a Consequence of Economic and Political Changes?

Author(s): Roselín Martin-Ramos,Velia Cecilia Bobes-León,Flérida Guzmán-Gallangos / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: violence against women; collective imagination; myths; victim;

The main purpose of this research is to analyze social representations (SR) of violence against women in three generations from Sancti Spiritus in a context of sociocultural changes. With this purpose, 28 people from three different generations were interviewed using the Snowball method. As part of the methodology, the semi-structured interviews, as well as the Free Association method (written variant) and the non-participant observation were used. The data obtained was interpreted with the qualitative paradigm. Myths about violence were found anchored in the collective imagination, without distinction of age. Likewise, there were changes in the SR of the three generations towards violence: the generation of older adults exhibits beliefs more attached to the government-supported discourse on equality; the youngsters blamed more the victim of violence and showed SR in which the control of man over woman is normalized. The intermediate generation exhibited SR more in accordance with reality. This generation, raised in a context of educational and social achievements, where inequality and social precarious brought by the special period, didn't have a dent in social values and norms, showed a less macho ideology.

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Human Rights, Gender and Discrimination: An Appraisal on Gender Impacts on Culture and Religion, Education and Workplace in Nigeria

Kazakhstan in a Mirror of the World’s Mass Media

Pros and Cons of Demonetization as a Major Economic Leap Forward

Flipping the Script for Skilled Immigrant Women:

Study on the Relationship between Mental Health and Teaching Efficacy of Chinese Secondary School Teachers

The Migrant Smuggling Crime in Romania

Macgowan and Innovation in Stage Design

Born Globals (BGs): Who Are They?

Interdependence and superordinate goals: The revenge of the dualists

The Role of the Individual and of the Social Environment in the Value System

Are Codes of Business Ethics Ethical?

Climate Change, Endangered Environment and Vulnerable Aboriginals of India – A Critical Study

How Globalization has Changed Diplomacy

Hermeneutical Resemblance in Rudolf Bultmann and Thich Nhat Hanh

The Banking Fragility Index Panorama in China

Humans beyond Earth

Teaching Children of Color

When Jungle Order Rocks the Boat of Legal Order: Inevitability of State Stability for the Peace and Security of Mankind in Africa

The Role of Forensics in Criminal Investigations

Social Representations of Violence against Women in Cuba Is It a Consequence of Economic and Political Changes?