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PLAGIARISM DETECTION & MANAGEMENT USING TURNITINDr.Kamran Ishfaq
Dr. Kamran Ishfaq, Social Welfare Officer, The Children's Hospital & the Institute of Child Health Multan, Pakistan, Email Address: kamranishfaqchc@gmail.com
Impact of thalassemia major on patients' families in south punjab, pakistanDr.Kamran Ishfaq
ABSTRACT… Objectives: The objectives of this study were to examine the level of awareness
of the parents regarding Thalassemia Major; the cost of treatment of Thalassemia Major Patients
and the sufferings it brings to the families; the social problems faced by patients’ families; to
identify the barriers patients’ families face in the treatment of Thalassemia child. Study Design:
Descriptive study. Setting: Four Thalassemic Centers (i) Thalassemia / Hemophilia Centre, The
Children’s Hospital & the Institute of Child Health Multan (ii) Fatimid Foundation Multan (iii) Amna
Blood Foundation (iv) Minhajul Quran Multan. Period: January-2013 to June-2013. Methods:
A sample of 500 respondents was drawn from the total population and structured interview
schedule was administrated. Data were analyzed and interpreted by using SPSS (Statistical
Package for Social Sciences) 19.0 version software. The structured interview was discussed
with two experts of the Sociology Department and two Senior Doctors (>8 years’ experiences)
working in the Thalassemia centers and Government Health Institutions. It was revised to
incorporate recommended improvements. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to
analyze the data that includes: frequency, percent, mean, standard deviations. Results: Data
indicated that 100(20.0%) respondents were patients’ father while 329(65.8%) were mothers
and 71(14.2%) were close relatives. Of the 500 respondents, 306(61.2%) were married to their
first cousins, 91(18.2%) of the respondents were married to their second cousins, 34(6.8%) of
the respondents married in distance relatives and 69(13.8%) of the respondents married out of
family. Conclusion: The study summarized that the health care providers should be encouraged
to talk about Thalassemia as a public health problem in Pakistan and should enhance the public
awareness to eliminate the Thalassemia in Pakistan.
KAMRAN ISHFAQ, PHD SCHOLAR SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, SOCIAL WELFARE OFFICER, CHILDREN HOSPITAL AND THE INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH MULTAN PAKISTAN.
1. SOCIAL MOBILITY
Kamran ishfaq
Phd Scholar Sociology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Social Welfare Officer
The Children’s Hospital & the Institute of Child Health Multan,
Pakistan
2. SOCIAL MOBILITY
Social Mobility.
Definition's of Social Mobility
Individual & Group Mobility
Types of Social Mobility
i. Vertical Social Mobility ii. Horizontal Social Mobility
Forms of Vertical Mobility
i.Upward Mobility
ii.Downward Mobility
iii.Inter generational Mobility
iv.Intra generational Mobility
v.Structural Mobility.
Causes for vertical Mobility
By: Kamran Ishfaq
3. SOCIAL MOBILITY
Individuals are normally recognized in society through statuses they
occupied and roles they enact.
Not only society is dynamic but also the individuals are dynamic.
Social mobility mean move from lower position to the higher position,
secure previous job from an inferior one.
‘Thus people in society continue to move up and down the status
scale, this movement is called social mobility’. The study of social
mobility is an important aspect of social stratification.
4. Definition:
Wallace and Wallace:
“Social mobility refers to the movement of a person or person’s from one
social status to another”.
W.P Scott:
“Social mobility refers to the movement of an individual or group from
one social position, class or social stratum to another”.
Sociology Dictionary:
Thus it is clear that social mobility mean movement of an individual or
group form one social position or status to another.
e.g. Poor people may become rich, the bank peon may become bank
officers, farmers may become ministers, and a petty businessman may
become a bankrupt and so on.
5. Individual & Group Mobility:
Mobility can take place at the individuals as well as group
level. It may take place at the level of individuals, groups,
societies.
Individual Mobility:
When individuals get into seats of political position. They
are said to have achieved individual mobility.
Group Mobility:
Like individuals even groups also attain high social
mobility. The Jews as a community in America and Parsis
as a group in India. e.g. have been able to attain a
relatively high position in their respective societies.
6. Types of social mobility:
Sorokin has distinguished between two types of social mobility mainly
i. vertical social mobility. ii. Horizontal social mobility.
This typology is normally followed by the other sociologist also.
Vertical social mobility:
Vertical social mobility refers to the movement of an individual or people
or groups from one status to another. it involves change in class,
occupations or power positions. e.g. movement from poor class to
middle class. From occupation laborer to the bank clerk.
7. Horizontal social mobility:
Horizontal mobility is change in position without the change in status. It
indicates a change in position with in the range of the same position
or status.
“It is movement from one status to its equivalent”.
e.g. a college graduate within a degree of chemistry working in Govt.
research chemical institute and after a year he find that the work
seems dull repetitive, with no improvement in sight then he become a
professor in chemistry at a nearby university.
e.g. An engineer working in factory may resign job and join another
factory as an engineer and may work in more or less the same
capacity or join an engineering college and start working as professor.
9. Upward Mobility:
This type of mobility denotes social ascendance. It denotes the said
movement from a lower social position or status to a higher social
position or status. It reflects social improvements. e.g. a retail
businessman who earns lot of profit may become a whole sale
businessman.
In the same manner the son of a mason through educational attainments
may become a university professor. Both are two examples of upward
mobility indicates an improvement or ascendance in the status of the
concerned persons.
10. Downward Mobility:
This type of mobility denotes “social descendance” or “social failure” on
the part of individual or group. Sometimes individuals who fail to
maintain their social, political or economic positions, and lose their
statuses.
Often they stand to lose their position e.g. big businessmen who have
invested huge money in business but face heavy loss. People in high
officers might be denoted due to their corrupt practices and so on.
11. Inter-generational Mobility:
It refers to a change in the status of family members form one generation
to the next. e.g. a plumber’s son become the Nazim of their
community. Bus conductor’s son becomes the chief minister of a
status.
Intra-generational Mobility:
A change in social status which occurs within a person’s adult career
“Wallace & Wallace” e.g. a lecturer in a pre-university college
becoming a professor at the university after his doctoral degree.
A person working as a supervisor in a factory becoming its Assistant
Manager after getting promotion.
12. structural Mobility:
Structural mobility is a kind of vertical mobility.
Structural mobility refers to mobility which is brought
about by changes in stratification hierarchy itself. The
structural mobility refers to “the vertical movement of a
specific group, class, or occupation relative to others in
the stratification system”.
e.g. these are the days of computers and information
technology. Hence, computer engineers and technicians
and information technologists receive greater respect
which was previously reserved for scientists and
advocates.
13. Causes of vertical mobility:
The necessity of filling in emptied or vacant positions.
Obtaining eligibility by imitating the Life-styles of the
upper strata.
To fill in the social vacuum created.
Inability to perform the tasks assigned.
Effect of widespread changes in the social-cultural and
political environment.
14. Causes of vertical mobility:
Inability to perform the tasks assigned
The unfitness of many individuals to perform the proper
functions relevant to their stratum often causes vertical
mobility.
e.g. physical and mental sickness, accidents, old age, family
problems, such other factors.
Under such circumstances the need arises for replacing these
persons with different ones.
15. Causes of vertical mobility:
The Necessity of Filling in Emptied or vacant
positions:
In most of the societies some upper positions are filled in for a
fixed period by some persons. On the expiry of their term, they will
have to be replaced by some new persons.
16. Causes of vertical mobility:
Obtaining eligibility by imitating the life-styles of the
upper strata:
There are various criteria by which the social status of the people is
evaluated. “Life Styles” represent, and people of the lower strata to
the upper.
17. Causes of vertical mobility:
To fill in the social vacuum created:
Because of a lower birth rate within the upper strata, a social
vacuum is created. This can be filled in by the persons
recruited from the lower layers.
e.g. if the owners or founder director or general managers of
the private companies or industries are not having children,
or if they are too young to assume high offices, then, the
relatively efficient individuals occupying lower positions get a
chance to assume high posts.
18. Factors that promote social mobility:
individual factor mobility
occupation and economic activities
religious institutions
political institutions
family and marriage
Windfall or the luck factor.