{"title":"Transition in Planning and Purchasing of Trousseau between two Generations of Punjab","authors":"Manideep Kaur, H. Saini","doi":"10.29070/27/58073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29070/27/58073","url":null,"abstract":"In Punjab, the pattern of trousseau practices among women are undergoing discernible changes over the period of time. The present study explored all the forces, situations and factors that directly or indirectly affect the trousseau planning of inter-generational periods among women in Malwa region of Punjab. A total of 300 respondents from three cities (Ludhiana, Patiala and Bathinda) of Malwa region of Punjab were selected. The role of ‘decision maker‘ was very important that influence in the planning and purchasing of trousseau for brides between two generations. The results revealed that the concept of parents as a sole ‘decision maker‘ for planning and purchasing of trousseau for brides has declined over period of two generations. On contrary, the participation of individual and parents together as a ‘decision maker‘ for planning and purchasing of trousseau has significantly increased over this period. Among personal sources, the influence of family members in trousseau planning was reported to be significantly declined and the consideration of friend‘s opinion in executing trousseau planning has significantly increased between these two inter-generational periods. However, among impersonal sources, the media and exhibitions has been emerged as the main influencers of trousseau planning in the recent years. The respondents of first generation reported that ‘Price‘","PeriodicalId":166691,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Sciences","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132834646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Citizenship of Secondary School Students in Bangkok, Thailand","authors":"Pawinyaphat Woraphan, Kittikoon Rungruang","doi":"10.29070/27/58068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29070/27/58068","url":null,"abstract":"The purposes of this research were to study Global Citizenship of Secondary Students in Bangkok Thailand and to compare their levels of Global Citizenship by classifying their sex, private school and government school, year/class and family occupation. The sample in this research were 577 Secondary Students in Bangkok, Thailand. The instrument used in this research were Global Citizenship of Secondary Students in Bangkok, Thailand questionnaires by classifying such as 1) self discipline 2) social interaction 3) compliance roles and 4) awareness of the situation of environmental resources and public health. The scale consisted of 48 questions, has reliability at 0.857. The data were statistically analyzed with Descriptive statistics: mean, standard Deviation and inferential statistic was t-test independent. The results of this research revealed that: Overall, the students displayed a slightly high level of Global Citizenship (mean = 3.74). When considering each aspect, it was found that with all aspects, the level were high was found that the aspect relating to self discipline shoed the high level (mean = 3.89). The second highest was the aspect relating to the awareness of the situation of environmental resources and public health and to social interaction (mean = 3.76) and the aspect relating to compliance roles (mean = 3.54). The overall Global Citizenship of Secondary Students in Bangkok indicated statistically significant different in these areas (sig = .05): sex, private school and government","PeriodicalId":166691,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128722688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of Extension Education in achieving Sustainable Development Goals","authors":"L. Vatta, S. Jindal","doi":"10.29070/27/58054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29070/27/58054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166691,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Social Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121973936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}