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Introduction: Honor killings have emerged as a concerning social issue in recent years, drawing the attention of researchers, social experts, and legal professionals. Honor killings can be broadly defined as acts of violence or abuse committed to preserve the perceived honor of a family or community. These killings can be categorized into two main types: intra-family and extra-family. Intra-family honor killings refer to murders carried out by family members against other members of the same family, either alone or with the involvement of outsiders. This can include the killing of a wife, husband, child, or parent by other relatives. In contrast, extra-family honor killings are acts of retribution committed by the victim of a crime, such as rape, or by the victim's family, against the perpetrators. The complex and often tragic nature of honor killings has made them a subject of intense scrutiny and debate within academic, social, and legal spheres. Understanding the nuances and underlying sociocultural factors driving this phenomenon is crucial for developing effective interventions and policies to address this pressing issue. Materials and Methods This study employed a qualitative research methodology. The study population consisted of 18 incarcerated individuals, who had committed acts of murder - 16 men and 2 women. Purposive sampling was used to select the participants. The research was conducted in West Azerbaijan Province and the data were collected through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. For the data analysis, a coding and data organization approach based on the CHARMS framework was utilized. This allowed the researchers to systematically analyze the interview transcripts and identify key themes and insights from the participants' firsthand experiences and perspectives on committing acts of honor-related violence. The qualitative design and targeted sampling of individuals directly involved in honor killings provided an in-depth, contextual understanding of this complex social phenomenon. The use of semi-structured interviews facilitated a rich exploration of the motivations, decision-making processes, and sociocultural factors underlying honor-based crimes from the perpetrators' own narratives. Overall, the methodological approach enabled a nuanced, evidence-based investigation of the honor killing issue within the specific geographic and cultural setting of West Azerbaijan Province. Discussion of Results & Conclusion The sociological interpretivist approach, with its emphasis on social constructionism, posits that social actors play a central role in constructing and reconstructing their social realities. From this perspective, honor killings can be understood as conscious attempts by individuals and groups to defend family honor and traditional social order in the face of modernization and changing lifestyles. Honor killings are a complex, multifaceted phenomenon rooted in various sociocultural dimensions. They are more prevalent in traditional, transitional societies where informal social controls and a collective sense of honor serve as a de facto "punitive law" to restore the perceived honor of the family as the dominant social unit. In these contexts, honor killings function as a technique of social control, with women's sexuality and social behavior being key markers of communal honor. In societies undergoing the shift from tradition to modernity, honor killings often arise from the conflict and tension between the forces of traditional solidarity and the forces of modern individualism. This "cultural lag" between the realms of family and individual creates a dissonance that can culminate in honor-based violence as groups with ethnic, tribal, or local subcultures struggle to maintain their customs and norms in the face of modernizing influences. The findings of this study identified 35 primary concepts, 6 secondary concepts, (including structural determinants, intra-group order, introduction of modern elements, weakening of traditions, externalization, and the conflict between the individual and society), and 4 core conceptual categories (the family's traditional order, changing lifestyles, the modern family outside the traditional order, and the pursuit of illegitimate opportunities). The overarching theoretical category that emerges is "conflict in the new family system" - the "cultural lag" in the family sphere that fuels honor-based violence. Understanding the complex, multifaceted nature of honor killings through a sociological, interpretivist lens is crucial for developing effective interventions and policies to address this persistent social issue. Recognizing the interplay between tradition, modernity, and the evolving dynamics of the family can inform more nuanced, context-sensitive approaches to preventing and responding to honor-based crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we explore prominent contemporary technology trajectories in the software industry and how they are expected to influence the work in the software industry. Consequently, we build on cultural lag theory to analyze how technological changes affect work in software development. We present the results from a series of expert interviews that were analyzed using the Gioia method. Moreover, we identify a set of technology trends pertinent to software development from which we derive four main changes affecting the future of work in software development: (1) a shift toward scalable solutions, (2) increased emphasis on data, (3) convergence of IT and non-IT industries, and (4) the cloud as the dominant computing paradigm. Accordingly, this study contains insights into how technology (as an element of material culture) influences non-material culture, as exemplified by the work involved in software development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her article from 2019, Fleur Johns describes a change: from a style of development work marked by a propensity for 'planning', to one marked by a propensity for 'prototyping'. Our project in this paper is to propose a modest shift in perspective. Where Johns traces a transition from old to new styles, we emphasise the enduring links between planning and prototyping, such that both styles are best understood through their ongoing relationships and entanglements. Returning to Pulse Lab Jakarta (PLJ), the site of Johns' initial inquiry, we offer a reinterpretation of what might be novel about PLJ for development practice. Our claim is that to understand the particular intervention that PLJ represents, and the new modes of practice it produces, it may be helpful to understand PLJ's work in the manner of a 'modular' attachment to existing development apparatuses, that combines big data analytics with design thinking. We then develop some reflections and speculations on the forms and novelty of PLJ in light of our redescription of its work in the language of modularity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of people's memory maintains the finiteness of time and capacity. However, with the advancement in technology, the amount of storage memory a person can use has increased dramatically. Given that digital traces can hardly be erased or forgotten, individuals have begun to express their desire to be forgotten in the digital world, and governments and academia are considering methods to fulfill such wishes. Capturing the difficulties in terms of a cultural lag between technological advancements and regulations on individuals' data privacy needs, we identify six motives for individuals wishing to be forgotten online and investigate its expected effects on online content generation through a qualitative content analysis of 222 responses from open-ended surveys in Korea. Our findings provide implications for the literature on individual privacy and the right to be forgotten employing the cultural lag, as well as, elaborate further on the relationship between being forgotten online and the legitimacy of such requests of individuals. Additionally, implications for data providers, data controllers/processors, and governments to address this lag and build a balanced system of personal information are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the period of the mid-2000s to 2015, in response to increasing labour disputes and workers' grievances, China initiated a series of regulatory reforms to promote collective labour relations and enhance workers' rights. Surprisingly, these reforms were not as successful in limiting the increase in labour disputes as anticipated. To understand this puzzle, the current study goes beyond existing state-union dominated explanations for the problems in Chinese labour relations by examining Chinese managers' perceptions and behaviour towards trade unions and workplace power-sharing over the years 2009–2014. The qualitative data collected from 21 firms revealed that managers viewed workplace trade unions as submissive assistants, dominated workplace employment decisions, and were not committed to power sharing. This evidence is consistent with the Chinese labour relations literature developed up to the mid-2000s, indicating unchanged managers' beliefs, attitudes and behaviour in this regard. Drawing on cultural lag theory, this article argues that there exists an authoritarian cultural lag in China's labour relations system, with managers still managing with their long-established authoritarian mode of thinking and acting against pro-labour changes in the macro environment. The concept of authoritarian cultural lag can assist in understanding why macro level pro-labour reforms have encountered difficulties in improving labour protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the industrial revolution in England around the 18thcentury, the world changed in very fast motion. Sequentially steam engine was found, printing machines, computers, and finally the internet network—a forerunner of the digital era. These all affect without exception, including Indonesia. We live in a world connected one another through communication technology. Departing from this issue, this study focused on the face of religious thought, educational patterns, and culture—especially in Muslims society. Trying to integrate William F. Ogburn's Cultural Lag theory and Disruptive Innovation of Clayton Cristensen, this study found the symptom connection between them. Civilization which consists of two elements: material (technology) and non-material (culture; education) are clearly separated by the abyss. One element flies very fast, and the other crawls slowly. These two things ultimately influence the Muslim religious thinking today. Overlapping the information in digital media every day made religious people did not have time to digest or analyze it. In fact, we found unilateral truth claims from certain groups—in the name of a complete understanding of religion, which is deeply turned out to be ahistorical. Here; disruption is caused by the movement of information that coming so fast—unstoppable and created a shallow, instant and hasty knowledge.

The expectation of familiarity with technologies embedded in millennial lifestyle creates a sort of cultural lag, with older generations struggling to understand and use these technologies. However, older generations' failure to accept new technologies, at least to some degree, would lead to social stagnation. From a populist standpoint, concerns of both generations deserve attention. Hypotheses contend that those in younger generations feel greater strain when using electronic payments than when using currency and that those in older generations feel greater strain when using currency than when using electronic payments. Data gathered from individuals of various ages and in various socio-economic statuses provided moderate, but not overwhelming, support for this contention. However, other, unanticipated, patterns emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For music to have an identity, it seems, it must belong to someone. I will argue that in the twenty-first century Chopin no longer belongs to Europe. Can we really speak of ‘Chopin reception’ in East Asia today, given that he now belongs to these cultures too? Already in the early twentieth century, the piano emerged as a potent symbol of modernity in East Asia, and today the success of East Asian pianists in the International Chopin Competition has become a matter of the greatest national pride for relevant nations. In this paper I will ask if socio-political modernities in East Asia, and the cultural modernisms that followed them and responded to them, are distinguishable from those of ‘the West’. Which are the common factors, and which the unique, bearing in mind that modernists of both East and West cultivated and relished temporal distance (now vs then), as well as spatial distance (here vs there)? In addressing cultural encounters between East and West, I heed Jürgen Osterhammel’s caution against prematurity in the identification of dichotomous discourses. I also invoke the theoretical concept of ‘cultural lag’, a concept of some vintage, but one that can have explanatory value when we consider the counterpoints and synergies generated between science, politics and culture in both East and West. In reflecting on Chopin in East Asia, I contextualise cultural transfer in several ways. These include aesthetic responses to collective trauma, not least through the establishment of a tabula rasa, or alternatively through a mode of (depthless) imitation that celebrates what Susan Sontag called ‘sensuous surface’. They also include a surrender to mechanism, and a tendency to fetishise or iconise cultural figures. All of these are arguably symptomatic of East Asian modernisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article utilises the theories of Inclusive Masculinity and Organisational Cultural Lag to provide the first comprehensive exploration of sexual minority inclusion in the British horseracing industry. The study employs a quantitative approach, involving a survey distributed to two mixed-gender populations within the sport: jockeys (n = 149) and non-athlete stakeholders (n = 308). Results indicate that approximately one fifth of jockeys selected a response other than 'straight', while less than 4% of the population of jockeys and stakeholders would view a sexual minority colleague 'very negatively'. However, despite the relatively high proportion of sexual minority individuals working within the industry, and the positive attitudinal responses towards having a sexual minority colleague, only one of the 149 jockeys surveyed identified as a sexual minority and were publicly 'out'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scholarship has depicted that Vartan Bhanji (rural social institution of social exchange) has shaped itself in the urban settings of Pakistan (Alia, 2017; Saher & Mayrhofer 2014; Saher, 2010; Chaudhry 1999). While VB has adapted according to the formal expectations of the urban system (by avoiding written records and resorting to less open exchange of gift/services), it has also influenced the formal processes of urban institutions; including political parties, professional organizations, civil services and the military, leading to the personalization of the impersonal. Qadeer (1999) highlights it as a reflection of inconsistency and a sign of cultural lag. To date, this issue has not been explored and no published material is available on it. Considering this gap in literature, this paper is going to unravel this phenomenon and will contribute to the discourse on cultural lag. To meet the objectives of this study, qualitative research with in-depth interviews have been conducted with the female teachers of a public sector school. The results show that the respondents were explicitly aware of VB, they accepted the existence of VB based relations among colleagues, and use the three items of VB (i.e., daughters' rights, reciprocity and maang-a request for help which must be satisfied) to develop fictive relation (of two types) and an informal support system in a formal organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the different theories used to explain social change, the transition theory holds a special place. It has been applied to subjects such as demography, epidemiology, nutrition, etc. and most often from a multidisciplinary perspective. However, beyond the apparent uniqueness of the transition label there are quite different theoretical frameworks and presuppositions, which can be a source of misunderstanding. A first perspective considers change as the transition from one stable state to another and concentrates on the processes at work in the transition phase. It focuses attention on the interactions between cultural and biological variables and tries to take into account the consequences of the fact that they move at different rates. A second perspective conceives change as a series of stages (more or less stable situations) and proceeds to analyse the structural transformation of the organisation at each stage. The emphasis is placed on the transformations that take place during these stages. This brings us closer to the theory of stages. Finally, a third perspective combines stages and transitions. Change is seen as part of an evolutionary and progressive movement and as being reversible or not. This article studies the cognitive organisation of the different theoretical variants of the transition model in which food plays a more or less important role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A classic epistemological problem in the social sciences is how to analyse and understand social change. In media and communication studies, for example, the concept of mediatisation has sparked off such a debate, since one of the main criticisms against the approach is that researchers rather take change for granted without being able to empirically establish if and how change has occurred. In this article is suggested a model for analysing social change through an analysis of how generational identity as "we-sense" is produced in narratives about media use. The empirical basis for the discussion is picked from a recently finished project on media generations in Sweden and Estonia, building on foremost qualitative material. The article concludes with accounting for the merits of using a generational perspective for analysing social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores design innovation approaches in the creative economy in the Northern Isles of Scotland, specifically, the Shetland archipelago, focusing on the textiles sector. Shetland has a rich history of craft work, including Fair Isle knitting and lace making. We contend that the value of cultural assets in contributing to the creative economy is under examined and that there is a paucity of understanding of the innovative potential of craft and creative practitioners in the region. The insights presented are derived from Innovation from Tradition workshops, which aimed to reframe the creative economy within an island context, elicit knowledge surrounding local cultural assets and explore the innovative capabilities of creative practitioners. We reflect on how a design innovation approach allowed us to garner the collective wisdom held in communities and foreground the focal themes of practice, place and people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural variations across nations and organizational culture-based differences between organizations that are involved in the transfer of various kinds of technologies are considered two major factors that influence the success of transfer. Relevant contributions from cross-cultural studies on management and organizations are integrated into the literature on organizational culture and diffusion of innovations, and a conceptual model is developed. Implications for research in international and comparative management are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on issues and topics related to scientific revolution. Science is the first common enterprise of humanity. It may have begun separately in different civilizations and some ended in when they were extinguished by conquest or epidemic. However, in modern civilization, science has spread to every corner on the globe. Science originally sprouted from Western Europe, but there is probably no country in the world which does not participate, to some degree, in the advancement of science.

The author reflects on the role of education in minimizing cultural lag during the period of modern science and technology. He stated that science is progressing while the ideas of education are basically the same as those from the past. This resulted to the notion that society is unable to keep up with the rapid pace of technological changes. He suggested to change the education system to improve civilization.

The author presents a discussion on the impact of pension funds on the United States economy. The author cites the articles "Effect on the Economy of Channeling Savings through Pension Funds," by Harry G. Guthmann, and "Investment Aspects of the Accumulation of Pension Funds," by Roger F. Murray. The author explains that little information is available about personal pension funds. It is suggested that the lack of information on pension funds is the result of a "cultural lag." The author also asserts that a committee should be formed to investigate the best way of dealing with the lack of information available concerning personal pension funds.

The author talks about Exhibitions of living people. It mentions staged presentations of human beings emerge in diverse cultural contexts at a variety of historical moments; views on French drama, tableaux vivants by Denis Diderot associated with living display; and impact of development of visual and digital technologies over the culture of living displays.

A quarter century ago the landmark report from the U. S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine entitled "Emerging Infections, Microbial Threats to Health in the United States" was released. This classic study captured the societal changes then underway in our rapidly growing world: The growth of the world's population and changing human behavior; the advances and globalization of technology and industry; the changes in economic development and land use; the dramatic increase in speed and frequency of international travel and commerce; the adaptation of microbes and the appearance of never before seen pathogens; and the breakdown of traditional public health measures. This societal evolution has only increased and the growing frequency of outbreaks foretold in the report has come to pass. Each new disaster has precipitated changes and adaptations in our global response to infectious diseases designed to reduce risks and avoid future outbreaks. We discuss these past events and how each led to change in an effort to mitigate future threats. We also look to the future to consider what challenges might lay ahead. Conclusion. Major outbreaks over the past quarter century validated the concept of emerging infectious diseases and led to improvements in global policies and national public health programs; however, there will likely always be new diseases and the threat of reemergence of diseases once thought controlled leading to a constant need for vigilance in public health preparedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In China, a mere copying and pasting of the regulative skeleton from the West aiming to enhance the quality of regulations would always invite criticism. With respect to the legal system of intellectual property rights protection, especially the digital copyright legal regime, it looks more like a paradoxical combination of the Western approach. Accomplished success has been achieved on the 'black letter' (doctrinalism) aspect. However, there has been little awareness of the comparison from the perspectives of cultural, social, and political context (contextualism) where the regulation develops. This article reviews why and to what extent the cultural context matters in regard to the interaction between technology and digital copyright regulations. This research will eventually come to a conclusion that in those developing countries, such as China, legal transplant could still need to be carefully selected and tailored to the socio-cultural and economic demands of that country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the theories of cultural lag elaborated by Thorstein Veblen and William F. Ogburn. In particular, it pursues two motives: how the relation between social science and its audience had been implied in their respective approaches, and how the "lag" argument had been employed in their view of the "purpose" of social science. It is demonstrated here that the essentially identical theory had been transformed in their "argumentative strategies" and "styles of writing" to fi t their distinctive (critical and instrumental) concepts of social science. Veblen's key motif of "self-confrontation" of society is contrasted with Ogburn's motif of "applicability" of knowledge with regard to refl ections on literary technologies of science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the arbiters of change in values and culture relative to the advancement of science and technology in the twentieth century. Conservative groups have offered resistance to discovery and innovation wherever they have the power. They offer pedantry in the amplification of other people’s creative works. They urge dubious analogical arguments designed to make the classics contemporary. The methods of this examination will be humanistic, not scientific, since one claim is that scientific methods do not apply to their truths, and this is conceded. The result is an argument, open to charges of selectivity, making a worse cause look like what it is.

The article deals the issue of meaningfulness, significance, importance, and pragmaticallyspeaking, the usefulness of human life, in his private and family or the public, the workingenvironment. The topic today is an important topic of thinking, at least with respect toeconomic and financial crisis that devastates the global economic environment, both inconnection with the growing influence of global problems of mankind or by naturalimpending natural disasters around the world. Through axiological reflection reveals ourfundamental notions about quality of life. Naming the biased dissemination strategydrinking lifestyle, satisfaction and pseudo saturation mainly consumer needs. Theenvironment needs a new sense of permanent, other, innovative, naturally loses and dullsthe sense of genuine, real and substantial work and life values. Their commemoration,historical significance and generate real cultural values, reveals the essential foundations ofvalues and culture in general shows a tendency of a transformed form perceptions of thecultural dimension of social interaction a person at any level of social life, family andfriends and from work and career ending. The promotion of social, cultural maturity ofindividuals and groups which in the process of socialization creates must build on thetradition of values that forms the history of each culture.

At the beginning of the last century the American scientist Ogburn developed his theory of the "cultural lag". It is based on the observation that certain social developments, which are actually interrelated, can proceed at different speeds and behavioural or institutional framework conditions no longer fit in. If, for example, laws are not adapted to social or technical developments in a timely manner, i.e. if they lag behind developments, this creates a "cultural lag" which may lead to social conflicts. With this contribution, I would like to use this old sociological theoretical approach to explain, understand and draw conclusions from current developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New economy politics after 1980 in Turkey did not only change economic life, it also changed social and cultural values, moral ideas and led the country to become a new society. In that process, it was observed that, people started to reach imported consumption products easily and so material cultural changed fast, however this change did not appear in the moral culture. Therefore, a disparity occurred between material and moral culture, as Ogburn said, a cultural gap has occurred. That change which occurred especially in economic structure and consumption culture, was reflected in critical language of humor as contradictions in a society that cannot be modern. In this study, Gırgır, a humor magazine that has a special space in Turkey's humor magazine tradition, was used as sample. Gırgır, that caricatures changes in people's daily habits and in their cultural values, presents opportunity to concrete and exemplify the concept of cultural gap. For that aim, Gırgır was searched and convenient examples were studied. They were analyzed discursively and visually in the framework of qualitative content analysis to show how social change and value variation were reflected by humor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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