Social Inquiry: Journal of Social Science Research

Dynamics of Student Failure in Skill Tests: Navigating the Path Forward

Rashmi Pandey — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Dances in the Name of the Dead: Syarga and Ghyapri/Klepri Rituals Among Gurungs

Shanti Gurung — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Within the diversified and multicultural country like Nepal, there are many death rituals depending on the basis of their caste, religion, geographical area and their economic status. The Gurungs have their own kind of death rituals termed as Arghu (pae), in principle, appears to have similar purpose with the annual Shraddha as practices by the Brahmin-Chhetri and other people. The entitled research topic explores about the death rituals syarga and klepri dances to be performed differently during the pae. The ritual of Arghum among the Gurungs is a three-day event which includes the dancing rituals of Syarga and Klepri together with prayers and rituals that aim to send the deceased person’s soul to heaven. Main purpose of this study is to findout how the Gurungs believe their death ritual by dancing and its soul connection to the deceased. The paper follows the interpretative approach to present the story of the special dances and rituals performed in the name of the dead by her/his relatives, friends and fellow villagers. This study was conducted among the gurungs of Gorkha district. Seven death rituals were carried out for the field study where five klepri gurus and 5syarga dancer was taken as respondent. My own participation in and observations of the ritual performances, and activities supplemented by my interview with elderly and knowledgeable people including ritual specialists has yielded the essential data needed to learn about how Gurung people understand human life and the relations between themselves and their deceased ancestors. Main finding of this study is dance in the name of deceased which believes that dance is one of the important part for human life and it’s fluctuations. As same like gurung people believe that we can dance in the name of the dead which reminiscences the previous life where she/he belong to.

Gandhian Spherons: India/Nepal Return to the Varnas Peace World Leadership

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The article summarizes 16 years of research by the Gandhian Global Harmony Association’s humanities scientists in the field of the genetic thermodynamic cybernetic social structure of nonviolence spherons and its empirical verification by world statistics. The article context narration is undertaken in the logic of theoretical knowledge, in the cognitive movement from the whole, general and abstract to the parts, single and concrete. This logic is accompanied and illustrated by a visual series of systemic structural modeling. The research of spherons as a deep invariant social structure that constitutes the genetic fundamental substance of any society in the corresponding innovative sociocybernetic science qualitatively changes the general traditional vision of society and raises its knowledge to the level of natural sciences with fundamentally new digital technologies in all its spheres. This qualitatively innovative science with Einstein's "substantially new manner of thinking" based on the invariant genetic structure of spherons provides a single scientific, acceptable to all peoples, nonviolent solution of the civilizational confrontational crisis that began in 1914, since the WWI and continues to this day, together with all its aggravating and insoluble for traditional thinking global challenges, pathologies and pandemics. Only conscious, enlightened spherons are able to lead humanity out of the deadly dead end of more than a century global confrontation into the space of global convergence, sustainable development, solidarity and partnership. To continue and intensify these fundamental innovative scientific researches, it is proposed to create an independent International Humanitarian Academy of Spherons, for a start, from 20-30 humanities scientists, mathematicians, cyberneticians, statisticians and programmers in any country that agrees to finance it and which will pay for itself in 3-4 years.

Mongolia's Strategic Partnership with India: The Third Neighbour Policy and Beyond

Souvik Chatterjee, Subhash Kumar Baitha — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Following the collapse of its trusted ally, the USSR, Mongolia faced significant challenges in aligning itself within the new global order. As a result, Mongolia's external and internal strategic environment compelled the nomadic nation to establish and maintain friendly relations with major powers other than China and Russia. Mongolia has since attempted to diversify its diplomatic and strategic reach in regional and international forums that had previously been overshadowed by Mongolia's previous patron, the Soviet Union. Mongolia had adopted two distinct policies, namely the ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ and the ‘Third Neighbor Policy’, which outlined Mongolia's aspirations in the post-Cold War global order. This paper will attempt to understand the changes and continuities in Mongolian foreign policy as a result of Mongolia's 'Third Neighbour Policy,' as well as to investigate the possibility of mutual cooperation between India and Mongolia. The most important aspect of this research is identifying Mongolia's relevant security issues. This study will use empirical data to examine Mongolia's security dilemma, but the analysis will be qualitative. The study's findings show that, despite its small power status, Mongolia will play an important role in North Asian great power politics due to its geostrategic location and mineral resources. Given China's dominance and Western powers' counter-dominance initiatives, this assumption is becoming true. With this in mind, India started to transform it spiritual partnership with Mongolia into a comprehensive strategic one.

Effect of Education on Service Quality of Service Industries

Yadav Adhikari — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The service sectors always focus to upgrade and improve the service quality when they pursue the new product or services to the customers. Based on the service quality literature, this paper assesses the five dimension of SERVQUAL model and make a gap analysis including antecedents of gaps and effects of education to mould the service quality in different organizational settings, most importantly in the service sector. To collect the information and knowledge on service quality, different service quality literature, practices as well as notions of the service delivery of different service sector is identified, reviewed, and conceptualized. The literature and different findings show that there is a positive and significant mediating effect of education that remains with service quality in the different organizational settings. Basically, in the service sector, quality service plays a vital role to the targeted customer for perceiving about the products or delivered services. Hence, the service provider is the major determinant factor for stretching the updated service quality ubiquitously to meet customer expectations.