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1. link.springer.com › article › 10Understanding honor and dignity in North Indian and German ...

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   Oct 14, 2024 · This study explores culturally shared connotations of honor and dignity in North India and Germany. Both, honor and dignity refer to the worth of a person but have distinct psychological implications. Honor as both an independent and interdependent phenomenon varies greatly across cultural groups. Yet, a relatively large volume of research is focused on Middle Eastern, Muslim cultures ...

2. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullHonor killing as a dark side of modernity: Prevalence, common ...

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   Feb 24, 2021 · We then consider and reject existing explanations for honor killing. First, we criticize the common view that honor killing is a sign of a primitive or barbaric religious, cultural or social ideology, arguing that this belief is both shallow and orientalist.

   • Author: Arash Heydari, Ali Teymoori, Rose Trappes

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3. www.researchgate.net › publication › 326009196_'LAJ(PDF) 'LAJ', THE CONCEPT FOR HONOUR, SHAME AND MODESTY OF A ...

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   This article deals with the concept of honor, shame and modesty of an Indian woman as depicted in popular Hindi movies and as described in religious and cultural traditions. 'Laj' or 'Lajja' are ...

4. www.researchgate.net › publication › 267635983_Honor(PDF) “Honor” and “violence against women in the name of ...

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   Jan 1, 2013 · Abstract. The purpose of this article is to review studies focusing on honor, especially honor defined over women’s behavior, and violence against women in the name of honor in the cultures of ...

5. journals.sagepub.com › doi › pdfFor the Sake of Family and Tradition: Honour Killings in ...

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   Apr 30, 2020 · Jennifer L. Solotaroff is a Senior Social Development Specialist with the World Bank’s Gender Group and previously with its South Asia Region Social Development unit. She has led the South Asia Gender Innovation Lab and the South Asia Regional Gender Action Plan 2016–2021, and is the lead author of the book, Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia (2014).

6. journals.sagepub.com › doi › pdfRESEARCH Patriarchal Beliefs, Women’s includes research ...

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   Psychological Empowerment. General Well-being. This paper highlights that depowerment of women is linked to the belief and practice of patriarchy which subjugates women at various levels – political, economic, social, and cultural. Patriarchy is a social and ideological construct which considers men (who are the patriarchs) as superior to women.

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   Are honor cultures patriarchal?

   • Traditional honor cultures tend, also, to be highly patriarchal, subordinating women and treating their sexuality as family property. In such cultures, a second type of honor violence may be found—men beating or even killing their female relatives for loss of chastity or other conduct that threatens male rule.

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   What is a culture of Honor?

   • Cultures of honor (those in which actors compete for status based on physical force) are far from uniform, but work by anthropologists, historians, sociologists, criminologists, social psychologists, and others reveals several shared characteristics.

   Honor Cultures and Violence - Criminology - Oxford Bibliographies

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   What is patriarchy in Hinduism?

   • First, patriarchy is internalized as an ideology and expressed as stridharma or pativratadharma (duties and obligation of a woman). Second, patriarchy through the laws, customs, and rituals (prescribed by the Brahmanical social code) reinforce the concept of chastity and wife fidelity as the highest duty of women.

   Patriarchal Beliefs, Women's Empowerment, and General Well-being

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   Do honor based cultures have a moral code?

   • Amongst women in honor-based cultures, there are complex shared moral codes that can transform an apparently negative and passive position of shame into positive values such as modesty, shyness, self-restraint, a deferential attitude and poetic romance.

   Honor killing as a dark side of modernity: Prevalence, common

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   Is politics of Honour normalized in India and Pakistan?

   • As Baxi, Rai, and Ali (2006) note, this politics of honour is normalized both in communities and in the law in both India and Pakistan, whereby women are not treated as equal citizens relative to men and are subjected to ‘competing ideas of rights, legality and justice’ (Baxi et al., 2006, p. 1240; Kapur, 2013).

   For the Sake of Family and Tradition: Honour Killings 5(1) 22–39, 2020

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   Does the education system change the cultural values of patriarchy?

   • There-fore it can be said that the present education system is geared towards making women economically empowered but does not address the need to change the cultural val-ues of patriarchy (increasing eve empowerment). On the contrary, it seems to maintain the status quo.

   Patriarchal Beliefs, Women's Empowerment, and General Well-being

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   Sep 29, 2015 · Introduction. “Honor” means different things to different people at different times. In modern societies, honor refers primarily to a form of social status that attaches to integrity and sound character. But honor has an older meaning still found among some groups today—a form of social status founded on the willingness and ability to use ...