Social Sciences

Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2015

  • Women and Rural Development in Nigeria: Some Critical Issues for Policy Consideration

    Nseabasi S. Akpan

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2015
    Pages: 110-118
    Received: 12 August 2015
    Accepted: 29 August 2015
    Published: 8 September 2015
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    Abstract: This paper examines the broad idea of gender and development with specific focus on some critical issues and challenges confronting the involvement of rural women in development activities in Nigeria. The paper addresses this issue through some theoretical and empirical review of literatures. Major impacts of women in rural development in Nigeria h... Show More
  • History of Evolution of the Armenian Sociological Thought

    Gevorg Poghosyan

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2015
    Pages: 119-126
    Received: 26 September 2015
    Accepted: 7 October 2015
    Published: 21 October 2015
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    Abstract: The article deals with the issues of the origin and evolution of social thought and sociological researches in Armenia. Since the ancient period Armenian philosophers in they works addressed the problems of man and his environment, social relations and the role of the state. Many social ideas expressed in the works of medieval Armenian thinkers are... Show More