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. 

Why do married men commit more suicide.? Sociological analysis

Why it's in news        National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), consistently find that married men have a disproportionately higher rate ...