Early Mesoamerican Cities

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Transformational Process ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Dynamic Phase ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ancient Civilizations ◽  
Broad Interest

Urbanization is a phenomenon that brings into focus a range of topics of broad interest to scholars. It is one of the central, enduring interests of anthropological archaeology. Because urbanization is a transformational process, it changes the relationships between social and cultural variables such as demography, economy, politics, and ideology. As one of a handful of cases in the ancient world where cities developed independently, Mesoamerica should play a major role in the global, comparative analysis of first-generation cities and urbanism in general. Yet most research focuses on later manifestations of urbanism in Mesoamerica, thereby perpetuating the fallacy that Mesoamerican cities developed relatively late in comparison to urban centers in the rest of the world. This volume presents new data, case studies, and models for approaching the subject of early Mesoamerican cities. It demonstrates how the study of urbanism in Mesoamerica, and all ancient civilizations, is entering a new and dynamic phase of scholarship.

The Untouchable Soldier: Caste, Politics, and the Indian Army

1969 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Caste Politics ◽  
Relationship Of

Military establishments are omnipresent if not everywhere omnipotent. While these costly bureaucracies are the bane of finance ministers around the world, they do provide an important opportunity for comparative analysis. This paper examines a military system—the Indian one—through time, and attempts to demonstrate the changing relationship of that system to Indian politics and society in general, and to the low-caste communities of India in particular. We select the low-caste untouchables because they represent an extreme challenge to the integrative capacity of both political and social systems, and because they have recently been the subject of intensive political and academic concern.

scholarly journals “Congenial people”, “dissonant people” and “image of the word” of a mature person

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Valeriya Alperovich
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Communication Partners ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mature Person

This research is dedicated to the problem of correlation between perception of other people by a subject and phenomenon of the “image of the world”. This topic is relevant for scholars of humanities in different countries in conditions of aggravation of various macrosocial conflicts. A theoretical study is conducted on correlations between the phenomena of “image of the world”, “worldview”, “model of the world”,  and approaches of the Russian psychology towards them. The author explores the results of empirical study of the “image of the world”, reflected in drawings, through the prism of metaphorical representations of a mature person on “congenial people” and “dissonant people”. The goal consists on carrying out a comparative analysis of peculiarities of the “image of the world” among persons differing in metaphorical representations on “congenial people” and “dissonant people”. The subject of this research is the metaphors of "congenial person” and “dissonant person”, the basic principles of a person and types of the “image of the world” depicted in drawings and verbal characteristics. The scientific novelty lies in the development of additional parameters for the analysis of the “image of the world” of a person, reflected in drawings. This article is first to determine correlations between different types of metaphors of “congenial person” and “dissonant person” as communication partners, and parameters of the “image of the world” of a person depicted in drawings. The conclusion is made that attribution of positive metaphorical socio-psychological characteristics to “congenial people” and “dissonant people” is associated with positive assessment of the objects of surrounding world. Stereotypization of images of other people as communication partners correlates with such of the “image of the world” in consciousness of a subject. The research results indicate that perceptions of “congenial people” and “dissonant people” by the subject affect their “image of the world”. The presented materials can be used in socio-psychological counseling for elaboration of the programs of correcting the system of relations of the subject to themselves and other people.

scholarly journals An Ontological Politics of Comparative Environmental Analysis: The Green Economy and Local Diversity

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Forsyth ◽  
Les Levidow
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Local Diversity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tacit Assumptions

This article contributes to comparative environmental politics by integrating comparative analysis with debates about ontological politics as well as science and technology studies. Comparative environmental analysis makes two tacit assumptions: that the subject of comparison (e.g., an environmental policy framework) is mobile and can be detached from its contexts; and that studying this subject in more than one location can identify its diffusion and implementation anywhere. These assumptions are sites of ontological politics by predetermining (or restricting) environmental outcomes. Environmental analysis needs to consider how its own comparative acts might reify supposedly global frameworks rather than acknowledging how different localities appropriate and give meaning to them in diverse ways. The concept of civic epistemologies illustrates how domestic politics are organized around supposedly global concepts, rather than how global concepts diffuse around the world, as illustrated here by a comparative analysis of the United Nations’ Green Economy Initiative.

scholarly journals The problem of novelty in legal science: to the question on methodological aspects of studying legal doctrines

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Vladimir Sergeevich Gorban
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The subject of this research is the problem of interpretation of continuity and novelty in carrying out historical-philosophical and problematic-theoretical reconstructions of legal doctrines of the past and modernity. The absence of due knowledge on the origin, history of acquisition and application of theoretical ideas of the past often leads to significant modifications, distortions and loss of historical linkage within the legal picture of the world. The repetition of legal ideas and theoretical constructs of the past is natural, but firstly it can and should be viewed as a methodological prerequisite for searching of approaches and means to substantiate the interests to certain aspects of law, and secondly, for ensuring scientific value of modern research, it must be clarified not by the conventionality of scientific knowledge, but based on the reconstruction of origin, application and valid meaning and designation of ideas. The methodology leans on the comparative analysis of legal ideas of the past and modernity in synchronic and diachronic angle. The novelty of the conducted research consists in interpretation of the problem of novelty in legal science based on the requirement for preservation of continuity in terms of their historical-philosophical and problematic-theoretical reconstruction. At the same time, such requirement reveals in a number of specific reconstructions and examples of utilization of methodological approaches for their conduct.

scholarly journals The situation of women in BRIC countries: a comparative analysis of the (in) effectiveness of public policies for the protection of women and reduction of gender inequality in the four largest emerging economies in the world

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Diva Júlia Sousa Safe Coelho ◽  
Ricardo Spindola Diniz ◽  
Saulo De Oliveira Pinto Coelho
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
International Context ◽  
Classical View ◽  
Bric Countries ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The research consists of a comparative study of the concrete experiences of Russia, China, India and Brazil on the implementation of policies for the protection of women and reduction of gender inequality. From a constitutional perspective of analysis, it seeks to overcome the purely nomological or doctrinal comparison, typical of the classical view of Comparative Law, in favor of an experiences and realities comparison. To achieve this goal, it uses a complex set of data gathered from relevant reports on the subject in the international context, as well as, realizing a explorative study of the existing literature on the subject in each of the countries. As main results, it was verified that the four countries suffer from serious problems regarding the effectiveness of gender equality and the guarantee of women’s dignity, freedom, and respect. However, each country faces specific challenges in dealing with the issue.

scholarly journals METHODS OF EXPRESSING OF LEO TOLSTOY'S PSYCHOLOGISM IN THE PROSE OF 1960-1980 YEARS

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (06) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Aynur Badalova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Character Trait ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
High Level

If psychologism artistic method has reached to the high level of development in Azerbaijani literature from the second half of the twentieth century, the development of psychologism in world literature dates back to the beginning of the previous century. Thus, the development of psychologism in Azerbaijani prose associates its roots to world literature. There are many artists in the world literature who write with psychologism method. Many of them can be named. But I would like to focus on the great classic writer Leo Tolstoy. He had influenced to readers' spirit and heart with his works, had an irresistible influence on the development of their personalities by cultivating in them the best human qualities, aroused love to the motherland, people, language, nature and the world. I think that Tolstoy, used the most unique methods of psychologism, also had an impact on Azerbaijani literature. It is more correct to evaluate the manifestation features of psychologism in Azerbaijani prose by conducting comparative analysis. And in this article research has been conducted on the subject of psychologism in L.N. Tolstoy and in the Azerbaijani prose of 1960-1980 within the comparative typological aspect. It had been considered legitimate here identification of not only similarities, but also inconsistencies during the interpretation of the analysis. In the article, in both Azerbaijani prose and Tolstoy's creativity the heroes' spiritual world have been characterized through expression possibilities of psychologism: internal monologues, dialogues, actions and behaviors, dreams and fantasy, writer's prose, etc., and the heroes' appearance have also been shown as part of the image, to create a fuller imagination. As a result, in both Azerbaijani prose and Tolstoy's creativity, different and similar features in the expression methods of psychologism have been extensively analyzed. Keywords: hero, psychologism, character, trait, spiritual world.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONALIZATION OF RETAIL – COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CROATIA AND SERBIA

2017 ◽  
pp. 007
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sokolov Mladenović ◽  
Đorđe Ćuzović
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Market ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

Globalization and integration of the world market leads to internationalization of retail and overall trade. At the turn of the century, internationalization has become a widespread retail phenomenon. Thus, it has become a permanent and inevitable process. Internationalization of trade, especially retail, covers a large number of countries, but with varying intensity. The subject of this work is the achieved level of internationalization of trade, especially retail, on the markets of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Serbia. Arguments for the selection of these countries are numerous. One of them is the fact that both countries originated from the former Yugoslav federation. At the same time, Croatia is the newest member of the European Union (as of 1 July 2013), and Serbia signed the Stabilization and Association Process, and is on the way of opening membership negotiations. For these reasons, Croatian experience can serve Serbia as a landmark in the implementation of activities in the segment of trade and its internationalization. The paper aims at mapping Serbian activities in the process of further internationalization of retail.

scholarly journals Poetics of the visual image in the poem “Predators at the Chegem” by A. S. Grigoyedov

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Ksenia A. Potashova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
White Paper ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Symbolic Images ◽  
Artistic Image

The relevance of the issue is due to the need of clarifying the features of A. S. Griboyedov’s creative method. The subject of research is the poetics of pictorial depiction developed in Caucasian texts of the poet. Poetic system of the poem by A. S. Griboyedov's “Predators on Chegem” (1825), which is characterized by the symbolism of images, appears as the beginning of established tradition of a realistic depiction of the Caucasus. The paper outlines a peculiar way of seeing the poet, which consists in examining pictures around him, which according to his artistic system turns out to be identical to the process of comprehending the world. The novelty of the research is associated with the analysis of little-known sources in terms of poetics, renown for its successful attempts of visualizing an artistic image. The author displays the results of a comparative analysis of the draft and the white paper of the poem “Predators on Chegem”: identified and commented text corrections of the poet help to trace the evolution of the author's thought. Identifying of the features of recreation of space turns out to be the key to understanding the A. S. Griboyedov’s artistic thinking. The study highlights peculiarities of the artistic method in the “Caucasian text” A. S. Griboedov, emphasizes the importance of visualizing tools for creating natural, national, everyday pictures of the Caucasus. Representing Caucasian conflict in visual and symbolic images, A. S. Griboyedov synthesizes the genres of landscape lyrics, elegy, battle ode, and lays down the tradition of a realistic depiction of the Caucasus, further developed in M. Y. Lermontov’s works.

scholarly journals International experience in preventing intentional homicide by criminal police units

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (69) ◽  
pp. 630-642
Author(s):  
Yevhen Khyzhniak ◽  
Volodymyr Kapustnyk ◽  
Tetiana Batrachenko ◽  
Iryna Chuprikova ◽  
Artem Kryshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
The World ◽  
Effective System ◽  
The Subject

The objective of the article is to analyze the international experience of the operational and investigative prevention of intentional homicides by criminal police units, as well as the legislation that provides for the development of an effective system for the prevention of intentional homicides in Ukraine. The subject of the investigation is the foreign experience of operational prevention and the search for intentional homicides by criminal police units. The research methodology includes general and specific methods of legal science: dialectic, scientific abstraction, methods of systems analysis, formal and dogmatic, systemic, and structural, historical, and comparative, logical. Various intentional homicide prevention programs are considered, which are currently operating in different countries of the world. It analyzes the positive international experience of operational and investigative prevention of intentional homicides, which can become the basis for the development of the relevant legislation of Ukraine in this area. It is concluded that the conduct of a comparative analysis of the prevention of intentional homicides and various countries is the basis for the development of the most promising areas to improve domestic legislation in this area.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of structural-semantic types of English and Ukrainian proverbs and sayings

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
L. T. Tyshakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Lexical Resources ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Semantic Types ◽  
Over Time

The article considers structural and semantic types of English and Ukrainian proverbs and sayings in a comparative aspect. It should be noted that phraseology has always been the subject of special attention of national lexicology. Issues such as typological, semantic and stylistic classifications of phraseological units, the degree of their stability, their origin will always remain at the forefront of the linguistic search. An interesting future awaits the comparison of phraseological systems in related and non-related languages, search and translation of variants, as well as the origin of units that remain constant over time. Phraseological units fill the gaps in the lexical system of the language which cannot fully provide the names of the new aspects of reality cognized be a person and in many cases are the only designations for objects, properties, processes, states, situations and the like. The emergence of phraseological units (proverbs and sayings) weakens the contradictions between the needs of thinking and the limited lexical resources of the language. Phraseological units are carriers of the aphoristic fund, which determines the factors of the perception of the world and is associated with everyday life f and culture and is also determined by both the theoretical and practical significance of the study of phraseological units. Correct and accurate semantisation of phraseological units (proverbs and sayings) of the English language more than any other means contribute to the vocabulary expansion and mastery. Laconicism and expressiveness of the studied phenomenon contributes to the rapid mastery of English grammar and the parallel development of idiomatic speech.

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