"When Salma, a young Muslim girl growing up in a South Indian village, was 13 years old, her family shut her away for eight years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. After her wedding her husband insisted she stay indoors. Salma was unable to venture outside for nearly two and a half decades. During that time, words became her salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper, and, through an intricate system, smuggled them to the outside world. The poems, many of which are included here, describe the hardships Salma and countless women like her suffer in their secluded lives. Eventually they reached a local publisher who printed them. Against all odds, and in a direct challenge to the stultifying traditions of her village, Salma has gone on to become a renowned Tamil poet and influential human rights activist" --
"When Salma, a young Muslim girl growing up in a South Indian village, was 13 years old, her family shut her away for eight years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage.
This book, first published in 1987, looks at the processes and spread of social innovation: the mechanisms of this innovation are rooted in the conflict that minorities are capable of creating in others and introducing into the social system. These innovations give rise to rejection, discrimination and denial of the minority group. However, minority ideas take root and gradually new norms replace the old ones. Despite the denial, therefore, the marginal standpoint of minority groups can have an impact on the belief systems and behaviour patterns of other individuals. This book proposes a psychosociological explanation of these individual and collective phenomena by articulating the underlying identification games and cognitive activities. It throws fresh light not only on minority influence, but also on major themes of social psychology, especially theories of intergroup conflict, persuasion and attitude change. Based upon a series of experiments which have been developed and refined for the 1991 English edition, this is a rigourous and valuable contribution to the study of minority influence on social processes.
4 Validation and minority influence Studies contrasting minority influence to
majority influence converge in showing the specificity of each of these types of
influence. In many of these studies, subjects are confronted with the same
message, ...
Este libro es un documento excepcional: es el primer testimonio directo sobre Guantánamo, la prisión más secreta del mundo. El recorrido alucinante de un muchacho francés de origen tunecino atrapado por la tormenta de la “guerra contra el terrorismo” . Vénissieux, municipio de los alrededores de Lyon, junio de 2001. A sus veintiún años, Nizar Sassi es un joven sin pasado. Ni politizado ni particularmente religioso, jamás ha oído hablar de Bin Laden ni de Al Qaeda. Tenía sed de aventuras y una irrefrenable pasión por las armas. Un día, en su camino se cruza a un hombre que, manipulando hábilmente sus sueños y sus frustraciones, lo convence para pasar algunas semanas en Afganistán, donde incluso los niños tienen su kalashnikov. Nizar duda, pero acaba dando el paso al frente. Al final de un periplo que lo lleva de Lyon a Londres, y después a Paskistán y Afganistán, se encuentra en Kandahar, en un campo de entrenamiento de Al Qaeda.
Vénissieux, municipio de los alrededores de Lyon, junio de 2001. A sus veintiún años, Nizar Sassi es un joven sin pasado. Ni politizado ni particularmente religioso, jamás ha oído hablar de Bin Laden ni de Al Qaeda.
This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on the educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages in the Baltic States, South Eastern Europe and Malta.
SPMC permanent basis- Most MPMC decisions April/May Advises on appropriate
curriculum and support Pupils with problems are referred by class teacher to the
council of teachers. There the decision is made what measures should be ...
Colonies which exhibited significantly larger halo on the YEPG plates compared to the parent strain were isolated. Their acid production ability were reconfirmed on similar plates. Instead of growing isolated strains as shake flask cultures and assaying for their citric acid production capability, a more rapid method was developed. This involved removing agar plugs from the halo area of isolates grown on the YEPG plates using a cork borer. These plugs were then subjected to a 'freeae squeeze' regime to obtain samples for citric acid analysis by HPLC. [Authors' abstract].
Colonies which exhibited significantly larger halo on the YEPG plates compared to the parent strain were isolated.
