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In Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim-majority country and third largest secular democracy--fierce ideological battles are taking place between two groups of Muslims seeking hegemony in the nation. The first group, the conservative Muslims, believes that Islam offers the best…

This is a Nigerian study, which initially aimed to examine armed robbery culture and the youth subculture. With the employment of subcultural theory, the study became intellectually unviable in explaining the primary data. A replacement was made by seeking recourse to anomie-str…

Globalization and the Reconciliation of Dissonant Hybrid Identities explores the way Canadian-Arab youths make sense of the multiple cultural systems they are exposed to. It also identifies the processes of individual agency whereby youths reconcile dissonant experiences in the …

Employing a non-random sample survey and in-depth interview, I explore the relationship between ethnic and religious identity retention among Arab-origin students from five Cegeps in Montreal. Being non-random, this sample is not representative of the whole population of Arab-or…

In the United States, children grow up spending much of their free time watching television. They grow up in what may be called the television culture. Stempel (1981) points out that virtually everybody born in the U.S. since 1940 is part of the TV generation; their childhood an…

In recent decades, the developing world has seen a massive expansion in tobacco and an accelerated growth in smoking among women and children. Research indicates that tobacco use is the single most preventable health risk in the developing world. The purpose of this study was to…