Due to scant research on reproductive aged adolescent girls' maternal health information seeking behavior in slum, in connection with social norms, we aimed for this particular study. Adopting an explorative qualitative research approach, we collected data from purposively sel...
What is the meaning of unsocial in Bangla? not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions. What's a male socialite called? Most high-profile socialites -- men are almostnever called socialites --now have an alternative title. Patricia Duff is a political fund-raiser...
Social alignment has the potential for bringing people together under a new set of behavioural norms during a period of high threat and uncertainty [5]. Sharing common experiences during challenging times (as captured in the phrase “We’re all in it together!”) is a strong catalyst for ...
The aim of the present study was to test an explanatory model for individual and social wellbeing which incorporates the advantages of using digital techno
In tracing a specific trajectory of cultural evolution, this paper builds upon Jean Baudrillard’s concept of ‘simulacrum’, arguing that the use of guns in Bangla cinema from Bangladesh and West Bengal (India) is connected with ‘hyper-reality’ and ‘
As constituents of webs of power, various social determinants (gender, age, class, race) intersect in often unpredictable ways, shifting fields of power at different levels and scales (national, local, intra-household) (Nightingale2019). Hence, norms and values governing access to trees are not...
Hans Harder (2011) points to the bhakti elements in texts recited by Maijbhandari Sufis in the Chittagong region of Bangla Desh. Anne Murphy (this publication, Section 1.2) describes religious spaces in the case of Punjab shared by Sufi and Nath Yogi as well as bhakti ideas, practices and ...