This article analyzes the promotion of sustainable urban development in the case of Diamniadio, a new town near Dakar, Senegal. Using a normative approach and relevant practices, the major question is to understand how a new city project can adapt to the new city-production model. Urban planning consists of a project-oriented approach which tends towards sustainable production in the city. A sustainable production of the city must include resources for the promotion of sustainable urban developm...

Sociology 

China’s poetry has a long history, but it is more than a land of poetry, it is a land of wisdom, philosophy, wisdom and thought. The language of the Chinese people is poetically like the Persian language with all its difficulties. A Persian poet has considered China as the center of beauty, the land of musk and the place of flowers, colorful and fragrant, and they have mentioned this point in their poems. The history of Iran-China relations dates back centuries ago. After the victory of Islam an...

Sociology 

The paper examined the effect of culture on the women’s right to political participation in Mogadishu, Federal Republic of Somalia. The paper was guided by the following objectives; to examine the effect of clan-based politics on women’s rights to political participation in Mogadishu, to examine the effect of early girl child marriage on women’s rights to political participation in Mogadishu, and to investigate the relationship between boy child preference and political representation in Mogadis...

Sociology 

Evaluating the degree of residential satisfaction with spontaneous settlements entails a large number of factors. The present study is conducted aiming to specify social variables affecting RS in spontaneous settlements and the impact on housing prices. To do so, structural modeling and regression methods were utilized to assess research hypotheses. The survey was conducted on 200 respondents residing in Qaemiyeh residence located around Tehran. The results of structural modeling confirmed that ...

Sociology 

Ghana’s law prescribes juvenile incarceration centres as the destination for delinquent children not only to serve as punishment, but also to rehabilitate or correct and reintegrate them into society. This study examines the nature and state of rehabilitation centres; the programmes and treatment to which juveniles are subjected. Data from 41 detained juveniles in the Swedru Juvenile Correctional Centre and the Junior Juvenile Correction Centre, Osu, Accra, as well as key informant interview con...

Sociology  Criminology 

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exerted impacts on the intercultural competence of Chinese undergraduate students studying abroad. Based on Zheng et al.’s developmental framework of intercultural competence of university students, this study conducted a questionnaire survey among students from Class 2017 and Class 2018 from a double-first-class university in Shanghai who continued their undergraduate studies in Germany. It explored the status quo of this student cohort’s intercu...

Culture  Sociology  Economics 

Human trafficking is identified as one of the most widespread organized crimes against humanity across the globe. The vice has huge implications for human rights and human dignity in the civilized world. While large scores of profits and influence for criminal organizations fuel human trafficking, it is also coupled with human suffering, deaths, exploitation, slavery and loss of human dignity for its victims. Therein, this study sorts to explore the nature of human trafficking to Saudi Arabia fr...

Sociology 

The issue of unregulated occupations of road setbacks or plot fronts remains a complex concern in the city of Lubumbashi. These non-regulatory occupations of the public square for personal purposes give rise to a conflict of use between the individual and the community (, Bajima et al.). This study proposes to partially respond to the recommendations for revisiting the issue by continuing the observation of these areas, the literature review and proposals for possible solutions. A SWOT analysis ...

Sociology  Social Issues and Public Policy 

A logical fallacy is an argument that can be disproven through reasoning. This is different from a subjective opinion or one that can be disproven with facts; for a position to be a logical fallacy, it must be logically flawed or deceptive. A false dilemma is one of the very well-known logical fallacies. Sometimes called the “either-or” fallacy, a false dilemma is a logical fallacy that presents only two options or sides when there are many options or sides. A false dilemma presents a “black and...

Sociology 

This was a comparative study of Cable News Network (CNN) and Television Commercial (TVC) news in their use of convergence technology. In order to achieve this, two objectives and two research questions were developed. The researcher employed the use of qualitative research and data was gathered using direct observation and discussions. The population of the study was all broadcast stations all over the world, however, CNN and TVC news formed the sample for the research. The theory adopted for th...

Sociology