Showing papers on "Westernization published in 1986"

Attitudes of South African Indians towards westernization and its effects on their family life: A pilot study

Abstract: The attitudes of a randomly selected number of South African Indians towards westernization and its effects on their family lives are examined. Two working hypotheses were formulated. First, that older, less educated, economically deprived Indian persons see westernization as a negative influence on Indian family life in South Africa, in contrast to younger, better educated, economically independent, and upwardly mobile persons. Second, that South African Indian Muslims regard westernization as a negative influence in their everyday and family life to a larger extent than Hindu and Christian Indian persons. Age, education, religion, occupation, and annual income were variables brought into relation with the hypotheses. In general, the evidence tended to support the working hypotheses. The tentativeness of the conclusions is stressed due to the preliminary nature of the study. S. Afr. J. Sociol. 1986, 17(1): 17–21

Persian Classical Music in Israel: A Preliminary Report

Abstract: musical culture of immigrant populations, studying their relationship to the music of countries of origin or home countries, and of host countries, assessing degrees and kinds of change and stability resulting from their immigrant and, normally, also their minority status. A considerable body of knowledge has been built up about the folklore and folk music of non-English speaking immigrant groups in the United States and Canada, producing hypotheses of typical musical behavior that reinforce theories about stability as related to marginal survival of archaic culture traits, about the development of syncretistic styles, and about gradual modernization, Westernization, and Anglicization (linguistic and cultural) of older European musical traditions.' Research along these lines is, of course, related, and has substantially contributed to, the rather large but so far not highly systematized body of knowledge regarding the role of music in culture change and about the processes of musical change itself.2 A number of other venues could provide comparative and possibly corroborative data, for while North America is one of the large areas comprised of a well-defined majority population with many immigrant minorities, other, perhaps smaller and more concentrated areas, have played similar roles in the social history of the world in recent decades. Israel is widely cited among these.3

Joseph booth, prophet of radical change in central and south africa, 1891-1915

Abstract: There are many qualitative and quantitative ways of assessing the roles of missionaries in technical, institutional and ideological change. One could count the number of converts, guess at the degree of commitment to a new ideology, note the impact of health services, see the alteration of the material culture, including providing employment and a market economy, investigate the varying impacts of education, and assess the effectiveness of combatting traditional institutions and ideology. In general one could look at the degree of social, individual or institutional change along a yardstick of modernization, westernization, or enlargement of scale. Here I am not so much concerned with effect, although it is mentioned occasionally. I am more concerned with cause-Booth's frequently unsuccessful attempts to bring about change. Joseph Booth fits into a vital role in the religious phenomena-the prophetic tradition of calling on his own people to fulfil the commandments of God and reform society, not so much for their own salvation, but to meet the command of evangelism and to institute in Africa a society consistent with the Mosaic code and the Love ethic. However, Booth's prophetic call was not just a religious or moral one; it was for Africa for the Africans, with all the political implications involved.

Beer Houses: An Indicator of Cultural Change in Taiwan

Abstract: Taiwan is undergoing spectacular economic development with facets of Westernization that have strong social and political overtones. The Westernization process includes the introduction of the American "Old West" beer house. These beer houses manifest the cultural stress involved in the transfer of a seemingly simple economic element into a traditionally conservative and stable Oriental society.