This publication, which is based on the unique methodology and tools developed for the World Bank Institute/Harvard School of Public Health Flagship Course on Health System Reform and Sustainable Financing, provides a powerful set of resources to help policy makers better naviga…
Forgiveness and reconciliation as acts to be experienced and practiced by Catholic parents in their daily personal and familial relationships where alienation and conflicts happen was the focus of this project. Research on the historical development of practices of forgiveness a…
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the factors in finding spouses for the Syrian women in the context of migration. In this research, in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with fifteen Syrian women. The thesis elaborates on the marriage…
Family planning researchers have long recognized the benefits of collecting couple data. Rarely, however, has the couple served as the unit of analysis in their investigations. More commonly, women's and men's data have been examined separately, meaning that inferences have been…
Personal laws regulate the family, which is the sphere in which Indian women experience the sharpest discrimination. Despite constitutional guarantees of equality and freedom from discrimination, Muslim personal law perpetuates the subordination of women within the family. The p…
Social change is pervasive in Saudi Arabia today and the impact can be seen readily in the modern family. To study family change, a sample of Saudi families in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, was selected. Two types of families were surveyed, 300 husbands and 300 wives…
Based on nineteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in al-Zawiya al-Hamra, a neighborhood in northern Cairo, this dissertation argues that the Egyptian "modern" capital is made not only through the discourses and grand plans of the Egyptian state but also through the practices of…
This study explored the dynamics of Palestinian families during a tumultuous and challenging time in the Middle East. The focus was on family role expectations in youth. The first objective was to test a model in which social class, parental socialization toward less traditional…
Mobile phones are a global phenomenon and can be readily found in places as technologically disparate as Japan and sub-Saharan Africa. Their sociological impact in these diverse cultural and technological contexts is rich because, on top of serving practical functions related to…
The first chapter looks at the effects of delaying marriage on individual's wage in the labor market. Delaying marriage is a key feature of demographic transition in most countries. Thus, many economists and sociologists have given this trend much attention. While many theories …
This research suggests that Child and Youth Care based reflexive practice contributes to crucial shifts in perspective in both international and national staff in humanitarian contexts, and blurs the line between beneficiaries and practitioners in humanitarian intervention. I ma…
This dissertation examines state rule and state-society relations in Singapore and, by extension, successful developmental states, focusing specifically on policies relating to the family. Singapore's family policies embody paradoxical dimensions of state rule: a highly "modern"…
When educated professionals with a disability immigrate to Canada with their families, they are full of hope. Because they were told that Canada is a land of opportunity, they expect to build on their past careers and become fully employed. Nevertheless, the experience of many i…
Past research on marriage timing in Asia has found the modernization framework to be insufficient for explaining and understanding the processes of marriage and non-marriage. Using insights provided by research on marriage timing in Western societies, we examine the determinants…
Using grounded theory methodology (Glaser's building theory from a data base), this research examines how peacebuilders heal violent trauma they have personally endured, with the aim of identifying common themes in their journeys from victim to survivor to provider. Using an app…
This dissertation analyzes the importance of economic and information related barriers to technology adoption, with an emphasis on the role of interpersonal information exchange among social and physical neighbors. The two studies that make up the dissertation are based on the I…
This dissertation examines the relationship between identity construction and cultural retention, transformation and transmission among women in the South Asian diaspora. It specifically looks at how the migration experience alters South Asian women's identification with their h…
The United States (US) has the highest level of poverty among adults and children of all industrialized nations worldwide. Microcredit was introduced in the 1970s in Bangladesh by economist Dr. Muhammad Yunus to provide low-income individuals (primarily women) no-collateral loan…