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Political Recruitment and Socialization in Syria: The case of the Revolutionary Youth Federation

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This article is published in International Journal of Middle East Studies.The article was published on 1980-04-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Socialization (Marxism) & Politics.

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The Status of Muslim Women in Sport: Conflict between Cultural Tradition and Modernization

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used published data on Muslim women's participation in sport in 29 predominantly Islamic countries and personal observations in Middle East sport were used to find that the situation varies from country to country, from rural to urban areas, and depends on impact of Islamic resurgence, secularism, nationalism, Westernization and socialism.
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The Rule of Violence : Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria

TL;DR: In this paper, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing through violence, showing how the political prison and the massacre developed as apparatuses of government, shaping Syrians' political subjectivities, defining their understanding of the terms of rule and structuring their relations and interactions with the regime and with one another.
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Education and Political Development in the Middle East

TL;DR: In Iran, Syria and Iraq, education has been carefully controlled and manipulated in order to produce desired political socialization ends as mentioned in this paper, while in Lebanon, because of the confessional system, the central government has done little to control education.
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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization

TL;DR: A synthetic polyisoprene rubber latex produced by emulsifying a solution of polyisoperene rubber in an organic solvent with water and removing the solvent from the resulting oil-in-water emulsion is significantly improved with respect to mechanical stability, wet gel strength and dry film strength as mentioned in this paper.
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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization

TL;DR: The Theory of Social and Economic Organization as mentioned in this paper is based on Weber's philosophical inquiries into the nature of authority and how it is transmitted, and identifies three types of authority: the charismatic, based on the individual qualities of a leader and reverence for them among his or her followers; the traditional based on custom and usage; and the rational-legal, according to the rule of objective law.