Muhammad Zaman

Quaid-i-Azam University | QAU

Consanguineous marriage, defined as marriage between close relatives, is a prevalent practice in many traditional societies. It is commonly perceived to secure property rights, maintain social cohesion, and fortify kinship structures. However, consanguineous marriages are also associated with an increased risk of inbreeding and consequent chromosom...

The safety of children is one of the fundamental indicators of their wellbeing. This study focuses on children’s constructs of their safety, and insecurity and agency within the cultural context of Pakistan. Adopting child standpoint as the methodological frame for this study, we employed child-participatory techniques within our research. A total...

Deradicalisation refers to the process of distancing oneself from extremist ideologies. As a social challenge, it is usually addressed by specially qualified professionals. In this paper, based on 16 interviews with deradicalisation professionals, we comparatively examine deradicalisation practices in coercive environments in Germany and Pakistan....

Youth and Violence have mostly been correlated with either neighborhood, school, or street environment. The current study aims at exploring how the violent experiences of youth at home, school and the street are interconnected, an area of study that has been overlooked in previous studies. Thirty in-depth interviews were conducted with violent yout...

Objectives: This study was aimed to illustrate the determents of consanguinity and inbreeding coefficient-F (ICF) in the population of Okara district of Pakistan and to elucidate the impact of consanguinity on fertility and birth outcome. Methods: Through a cross-sectional sampling design, 1,521 married women were recruited from Okara district d...

Some twenty years ago Anderson's seminal work, The Code of the Street, was published. The theoretical approach he developed there has been used in numerous studies focusing on youth violence, and is now treated as a general explanation of youth violence in risky neighborhoods in a number of disciplines. Expanding this, an international research pro...

In addition to the code of the street , we identified some emerging themes across three cases that spotlight the street culture of risky neighborhoods. Success, role of the family, new technologies as well as the perception of the police were the important themes that emerged from the storylines of the youth from these neighborhoods. Interestingly,...

In this chapter, the description of the sample and protocols of the research on Pakistan is documented. It also sheds light on the study locations in Pakistan and the uniqueness of the urban neighborhoods of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. A short description, as well as a comparison of the neighborhoods, is presented in the chapter. The broader social c...

This is one of the core chapters of this book. After describing the national peculiarities, the main findings are presented and cross-culturally compared and reflected in the context of the street code. The aspects, social space/neighborhood, street etiquette, symbols, toughness/masculinity, friends, respect, enemies, and violent perception are add...

This chapter deals with the research design and protocols of the research. It outlines the universe (a comparison of Germany, Pakistan and South Africa), the unit of analysis (juveniles 16–21), the tools (interview guidelines), and techniques of the data collection process (in-depth interviews). This chapter also documents the tools and techniques...

This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has exper...

Psychological investigations of the self-concept of children constitute a significant body of knowledge. This study focuses on self-concept from a sociological perspective, viewing self-concept as a social construct instead of a psychological construct. Drawing data from qualitative in-depth interviews with 30 children aged 8 to 12, the article ass...

This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has exper...

TRANSITION IN CONSANGUINITY IN DIR LOWER DISTRICT, A VICTIM OF WAR, NATURAL DISASTER AND POPULATION DISPLACEMENT, IN NORTH-WEST PAKISTAN – A RESPONSE TO STHANADAR ET AL. (2015) - Volume 48 Issue 3 - Atta Ur Rehman, Ijaz Ahmad, Muhammad Zaman, Sajid Malik

The structuralist and social exchange theorists relate the system of the exchange marriage mainly to socioeconomic interests, the formation of political and social alliances, as well as to the creation of a kinship network. However, they negate the inherited problems of the system of the exchange. This article discloses positive and negative aspect...

Pakistan has been facing a high level of violence over the decades. Although a paucity of knowledge on this issue in Pakistan is observed, this essay nonetheless outlines the documented patterns of street-youth violence: its causes, perpetrators and the socio-cultural and political constructs of the phenomenon. The wide gap in both the empirical an...

In this paper I deal with the impact of the exchange marriage system in Pakistan. The system does not only guide in spouse selection, but it is also provide welfare, alliance formation and give strength to kinship. No part of the study, however, dealt with the impact of the system on children anywhere in the world. Based on the qualitative investig...

This article deals with the traditional and changing gender roles and relationships in the exchange marriage system South Punjab, Pakistan. It examines structural roles and individual's independent choices. In-depth interviews were conducted with 24 families who have the system of exchange. We followed the guidelines of the Grounded Theory Method (...

This essay deals with the statutory legislation regarding marriage and family formation, mate selection, inheritance and its relevancy for the exchange marriage system in Pakistan. It locates the scope of the exchange marriage within the context of the existing legislation and the gaps in it. Generally, there is a 'plethora' of legislation along wi...

In this paper the author presents the case of the exchange marriage system to delineate a model of methodological gravitism. Such a model is not a deviation from or alteration to the existing qualitative research approaches. I have adopted culturally specific methodology to investigate spouse selection in line with the Grounded Theory Method. This...

The concept of individualization shares the problems of other strands of modernization theory, including the theories of functional differentiation, secularization, and value change. There is no doubt that certain structural and ideological developments in the labour market, the family, law, and other societal spheres have increased tendencies of i...

Examining patterns of mate selection and the core issue of agency, this brief article reports on fieldwork in a remote community in Pakistan, where the family continues to have supervening influence over individual choices in mate selection through exchange marriages. It explores the role of the family as a security provider and demonstrates the li...

BBC Urdu Service has long played a crucial role in connecting listeners in Pakistan to producers and consumers in the wider Urdu speaking diaspora. However, shifts in global politics, especially the so called 'Global war on Terror' on one hand, and professional and technological developments in the field of mass communication in Pakistan on the oth...