Showing posts with label Afghanistan crisis - Rise of Taliban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan crisis - Rise of Taliban. Show all posts

Saturday 20 November 2021

Afghanistan crisis - Sociological perspective

Why it's in News - Taliban takeover in Afghanistan 

1.Religious fundamentalism - Taliban will have trouble balancing it's religious ideology with the imperatives of state interests.

2.Legitimacy crisis - Taliban struggling for thier legitimacy 

3.Oppression of women - women never have any choice. 
🔸Identify crisis 
🔸Poverty, lack of rights and employment opportunities are among thier biggest problems 
🔸Disparites in gender education 
4.Ideological factors - supremacy between the two streams of political and social ideology- Theorcracy or constitutional monarchy.

5.Political vaccum - political elites were corrupt and we're looking for foreign aid rather than development goals - it lead political crisis 

6.Conflictual and fragmentary character of Afghan society- Ethnolinguistic, religious- secterian cleavages and tribal loyalties.

7.Refugee crisis - Afghan families leave thier home after fighting between the Afghans millitary and Taliban.

8.Falalistic suicide - excessive control of society over an individual- social pressure - globally there are more make suicides than female suicidess but Afghanistan it is estimated that 80% of suicide attempts are made by women - increase suicide rate among women during fight between two supremacy ideology.

9.Social structural heterogeneity of Afghan society - affecting the process of state building country. 

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