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Families in India: beliefs and realities.(Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... RELIGIOUS AND IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS
India has a rich religious and cultural heritage, extending about 5,000 years into the past. The population of India is multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-lingual. This populace...
Families in Bangladesh.(Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CULTURE
Bangladesh emerged as a sovereign independent nation in 1971. It lies on the northeastern part of the South Asian subcontinent roughly between 20 [degrees] 30 and 26 [degrees] 45 north latitudes and 88 [degrees] 00...
The Malay family: beliefs and realities.(Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS OF MALAYSIA
The Malay family system is the by-product of a complex interplay of historical and cultural circumstances. Historically, the Malays have been influenced by great civilizations from India, West Asia, China...
Families in Thailand: beliefs and realities.(Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION
The present paper aims to present factual information regarding various aspects of the family in Thailand. The paper covers the following three aspects; religious and/or ideological characteristics and orientations of the country;...
Hong Kong families: at the crossroads of modernism and traditionalism.(Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... Hong Kong has a total population of 5.7 million, of which about 98 per cent are Chinese in origin. In this demographic sense, Hong Kong is essentially a Chinese society. In the cultural sense, Hong Kong also appears as a Chinese society. Most of...
The family and demography in contemporary Taiwan.(Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... IDEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
For centuries and still remaining today, the family has been the most important unit of social organization in Taiwan, to which the core of cultural values are attached. As a frontier and an immigrant society of...
Confucianism and the Korean family. (Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION
Religious and ideological beliefs are the part of the adaptive culture that evolves over time. The ethics and values espoused by one religion during a particular period and in a specific culture may differ from those of another...
Families in Japan: beliefs and realities.(Special Issue: Families in Asia: Beliefs and Realities)
March 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION
One of the central themes of human societies is the continuous process of social change. Although the rate of progress differs from one society to another, it is generally the case that societies change from traditional to modern....