Azizur Rahman Khan
Biographic Data
| ID | 93028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Azizur Rahman Khan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Azizur Rahman |
| FAMILY NAME | Khan |
| SIGNATURE | KHAN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | East West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8154-0284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Motivation for civil service jobs in Bangladesh
This sociological study explores the motivations of newly appointed Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) officials, applying Max Weber’s theory of social stratification, which considers class, status, and power dynamics. The current study provides valuable insights into the relationship between motivation for civil service jobs and the implications of Max Weber’s seminal theory of social stratification. Based on a survey conducted in 2023 with 562 newl…
Financing the Second Five Year Plan
The purpose of this paper is to indicate some of the problems involved in financing Pakistan's Second Five Year Plan. The Plan sets out the objective of increasing the gross national product by 20 per cent. The cost of this growth rate has been estimated at Rs. 19,000 million of investment expenditure over the Plan period, Rs. 9,750 million in the public sector, Rs. 3,250 million in the semi-public sector, and Rs. 6,000 million in the private sec…
Social factors associated with rural male suicide in Bangladesh
Understanding Male Suicide in Rural Bangladesh
Suicide is an increasingly serious social problem in Bangladesh. Drawing on five male suicide cases in the rural areas of one of the country's most suicide-prone districts, this qualitative study examines the influence of Hegemonic Masculinity and the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in understanding the motivations behind these deaths. These cases provide detailed narrative accounts to illustrate the complex links between masculinity, interperson…
Abuse towards elderly parents by adult children
With the advent of social transformation from traditional to modern to neoliberal, social norms, values, kinship ties, and family bonding are getting weaker. Increasing abuse and negligence towards parents bear testimony to a changing social milieu where elderly parents are often being victimized by their children. Although religion and cultural norms dominate Bangladeshi society to some extent, analogous patterns of abuse toward parents are also…
Men’s Suicide in Bangladesh
Suicide is a multilayered social behaviour containing overlapping components from individual to social spheres. This article discusses the findings of the context of male suicide in Bangladesh based on Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological theory. The socio-ecological perspective allows to determine the risk factors of suicide at multiple levels. Fifteen male suicide cases were purposively selected from several rural areas of the Jhenaidah district w…
Male suicide cases in Bangladesh
Durkheim’s classic Le Suicide provides the most astounding perspective in the sociological analysis of suicide. Using macro-level statistical data, he analyzed the suicide patterns of different populations and groups with reference to socio-cultural factors and social structures. His model comes with a four-fold typology of suicide: anomic, egoistic, altruistic, and fatalistic. This classification of suicide provides a means for analyzing the str…
Intimate relationships and Suicidal Behaviour of Men in Bangladesh
Suicidal behaviour (e.g., suicide and suicide attempt) is a multifaceted phenomenon which often draws on several social and psychological contexts. This research examines how men’s suicides and attempted suicides are embedded in the contextual praxis of intimate relationships in Bangladesh. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were undertaken with family members, close relatives, and friends of 37 men who died by suicide or attempted suicide. T…
Men and climate change
This article highlights the impacts of climate change on men from two countries from the Global South, namely Bangladesh and South Africa, as we reflect on climate change as a major consideration in work on the un/making of dominant and marginal masculinities. Climate change has a gender face, showing differential hazards for men and women linked to the structures of gender in society. A limited range of discourses about the impacts of climate ch…
Configuring traditional masculinities among young men in northwestern Ghana
Most academic scholarships, particularly from the global North continue to theorize African men, especially poor black men as problematic, abusive, and violent. Such scholarship often fails to foreground how men’s gendered subjectivities are likely to be shaped by intersecting inequalities. The danger of such neglect is that African men continue to be pathologised as being unable to cope with western liberal conception of gender equality. Drawing…
Social Meanings of Attempted Suicide of Men in Bangladesh
Problems of Jute Marketing in East Pakistan
Jute constitutes the largest item in the export market ofPakistan. At present Pakistan is facing a number of difficulties withrespect to jute trade due mainly to the emergence of substitutes andpowerful competitors in the world market. While these are the factorsaffecting long term demand for Pakistani jute, there also exist otherimportant problems associated with jute. The most urgent among them isthe marketing of jute. Jute marketing problems a…
Thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and acquired capability for suicide among university students of Bangladesh
The current study revealed psychometric properties of two suicide scales (INQ and ACSS-FAD) in Bangla that can be used in subsequent studies. Prevention strategies targeting to females, persons with psychiatric disorder, history of previous attempt(s) should be prioritized specially among the young age group
Coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis and suicide in Bangladesh
Whilst the world is experiencing an unprecedented and devastating public health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars have apprehended that economic, social and mental health consequences brought by the pandemic might intensify suicidality amongst people. At this backdrop, this content analysis traces the relationship between suicidality and the COVID-19 pandemic employing Emile Durkheim’s classical theoretical postulation of the sociolog…
Female perpetrated domestic violence against men and the case for Bangladesh
Whilst domestic violence against women receives significant international attention and prominence within the scholarly, media and policy discourses, much silence and reservation is evident in the case of domestic violence against men by women. The dominant societal notion portrays women as the natural victims and men as perpetrators, \nmaking it challenging to contextualize men’s experiences of domestic violence in the intimate relationship. Aga…
Men and Covid-19
There are important gender determinants to both men’s and women’s susceptibility to COVID-19. Emerging findings confirm men are dying disproportionately at a higher rate than women. Such gender differences in deaths have informed scholars to widen their analytical look through a critical masculinity lens. As the practices to respond to the context of the gendered burden of disease are still inadequate and nearly absent on men’s health, it is sugg…
Suicidal behaviour and the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic
Whilst suicide is well established as a critical global public health burden causing around 800,000 deaths annually along with many more attempts, there is a concern that the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic might intensify suicidality. The purpose of this study is to draw attention to the budding correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and suicidality from the theoretical perspective of Emile Durkheim's sociology of suicide. A rev…
Assessing the Policy Implementation of the Bangladeshi Domestic Violence Act
Violence against women in the home is a serious global social, health and human rights problem which transcends every level of society. Many countries have enacted and implemented specific legal policy interventions, often referred to as the “Domestic Violence Act”, in order protect women from violence at home. Although the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 was an important landmark in policy-making in Bangladesh, legal recou…
Men, Suicide, and Covid-19
Masculinity and Suicide in Bangladesh
Suicide is a serious but under-researched public health problem in Bangladesh. In light of this, we sought to explore the association between masculinities and suicide. We interviewed 20 family members/friends of men who died by suicide across 12 rural areas of the Jhenaidah district, Bangladesh. We found that male suicide was attributed to men's inability to fulfil hegemonic masculine demands such as financial provision and meeting the sexual ne…
Men’s Reflections on Postsuicide Attempt Episode in Bangladesh
This is the first ever research in Bangladesh that provides understanding about men's postsuicide attempt reflections from a district called Jhenaidah which is assumed to be a high suicide-prone area in the country. Employing qualitative semistructured interviews with 17 men who have attempted suicide, aged 18 years and older, this research finds the survivors encountered several immediate reactions from others specifically targeting toward demea…
Suicide prevention in Bangladesh
Despite the World Health Organization's (WHO) call to adopt a national action plan on suicide, Bangladesh is yet to respond proactively to prevent this serious public health problem. The existing government and non‐government prevention interventions are very limited, segmented and almost invisible. Suicide (including attempted suicide) is currently a criminal offense under the Bangladeshi legal framework. The aim of this paper is to propose a fr…
Factors Associated with Domestic Violence against Rural Bangladeshi Women
This study examines the causes of domestic violence against rural Bangladeshi women. By drawing on thirty-nine semi-structured in-depth interviews through phenomenological approach of qualitative study, conducted in eight rural settings in Netrokona and Mymensingh districts, it was found that every experience of the women with domestic violence has a context or contexts. Broadly, the prominent causes of domestic violence were identified as dowry-…
Analysing Masculinity from the Key Theoretical Lenses and Searching for Linkages with Violence against Women
In recent years, masculinity has become an imperative and influential academic discourse in the domain of gender studies. Despite having been explained and theorised from a number of perspectives, it lacks overall clarity and vary widely across different social and cultural contexts. Keeping that perspective in mind, this study drawing a rigorous review of the literature and reflexive analysis has synthesized prominent and pertinent theoretical i…
Agrarian Systems and Rural Development
Poverty and the Distribution of Land
Redistributive land reforms have begun to attract the attention of scholars and policy makers once again. In this paper, we review old arguments and bring them up-to-date in the light of recent research. We begin with the case in favour of redistributive reforms focusing on fragmented factor markets and systems of labour control, of which concentration of land ownership is but one aspect. We then examine land reform in practice, focusing on disti…
In Defence of Neo-Classical Neo-Populism
This paper is a response to the discussion in the special issue of this Journal onRedistributive Land Reform Today(Vol. 4, Nos. 1 and 2). We begin by attempting to clarify the methodological debate, differentiating our approach, which our critics call neo-classical neo-populism, from mainstream neo-classical economics and historical materialism. We then distinguish between land tenure reforms and redistributive land reforms, and argue that it is …
Poverty in the third world
The Comilla model and the integrated rural development programme of Bangladesh
Suicidal behaviour and the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic
Whilst suicide is well established as a critical global public health burden causing around 800,000 deaths annually along with many more attempts, there is a concern that the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic might intensify suicidality. The purpose of this study is to draw attention to the budding correlation between the COVID-19 pandemic and suicidality from the theoretical perspective of Emile Durkheim's sociology of suicide. A rev…
Women's coping strategies and help-seeking practices
This article examines the coping strategies and help-seeking practices of women victims of domestic violence perpetrated by their husbands in rural Bangladesh. By drawing on 39 semi-structured in-depth interviews, conducted in eight rural settings in Netrokona and Mymensingh districts, it was found that the abused women tried to cope with domestic violence in many ways. Making their marriages work at any cost was their prime motivation in coping …
Female perpetrated domestic violence against men and the case for Bangladesh
Whilst domestic violence against women receives significant international attention and prominence within the scholarly, media and policy discourses, much silence and reservation is evident in the case of domestic violence against men by women. The dominant societal notion portrays women as the natural victims and men as perpetrators, \nmaking it challenging to contextualize men’s experiences of domestic violence in the intimate relationship. Aga…
Public and Private Organizations
In spite of a growing body of research attempting to draw distinctions between public and private organizations over the years, it remains a disputable issue yet to be settled by organizational theorists and scholars alike. No conclusive understanding regarding the similarities and differences has been availed, and the scholarly discussions between these two types of organizations predominantly ended up finding out differences rather than similar…
Consequences of Domestic Violence against Women
The aim of this study was to explore the consequences of domestic violence against rural Bangladeshi women. Drawing on in‐depth qualitative phenomenological interviews with 39 female victims of domestic violence from 8 rural settings of the Netrokona and Mymensingh districts, it was found that domestic violence not only causes serious consequences to the overall health and wellbeing of victims, it also causes negative impacts to their children an…
Agrarian Systems and Rural Development
Journal Article Agrarian Systems and Rural Development Get access Agrarian Systems and Rural Development. Edited by DHARAM GHAI, AZIZUR RAHMAN KHAN, EDDY LEE and SAMIR RADWAN. (London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xv + 375. £20.00.) Eric Clayton Eric Clayton Wye College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 359, 1 September 1980, Pages 632–633, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231938 Publi…
Men and climate change
This article highlights the impacts of climate change on men from two countries from the Global South, namely Bangladesh and South Africa, as we reflect on climate change as a major consideration in work on the un/making of dominant and marginal masculinities. Climate change has a gender face, showing differential hazards for men and women linked to the structures of gender in society. A limited range of discourses about the impacts of climate ch…
Suicide prevention in Bangladesh
Despite the World Health Organization's (WHO) call to adopt a national action plan on suicide, Bangladesh is yet to respond proactively to prevent this serious public health problem. The existing government and non‐government prevention interventions are very limited, segmented and almost invisible. Suicide (including attempted suicide) is currently a criminal offense under the Bangladeshi legal framework. The aim of this paper is to propose a fr…
The Collapse of Actually Prevailing Socialism
Collective agriculture in Soviet Central Asia
What Has been Happening to Real Wages in Pakistan?
It seems unnecessary to prepare an elaborate case emphasising the need for some knowledge about the movement of real wages. Such knowledge would help confirm our ideas about the supply of labour and its abundance or scarcity, shed light on the mechanism of transfer of labour from the traditional sector to the modern sector by highlighting the incentive differential between wages in these two sectors and its change over time, and provide insight i…
Growth and Inequality in Pakistan
Bangladesh's trade and economic relations with the socialist countries
Poverty in the third world
The Comilla model and the integrated rural development programme of Bangladesh
Collective agriculture in Soviet Central Asia
Agrarian Systems and Rural Development
Journal Article Agrarian Systems and Rural Development Get access Agrarian Systems and Rural Development. Edited by DHARAM GHAI, AZIZUR RAHMAN KHAN, EDDY LEE and SAMIR RADWAN. (London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xv + 375. £20.00.) Eric Clayton Eric Clayton Wye College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 359, 1 September 1980, Pages 632–633, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231938 Publi…
Agrarian Systems and Rural Development
Agrarian Systems and Rural Development
Employment and Development in Laos
Employment and Development in Nepal
Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India
Integrated rural development
The Collapse of Actually Prevailing Socialism
Income and Inequality in China
The first comprehensive effort to estimate household income and its distribution in China according to standard international definitions was made for the year 1988 by an international group of economists working with members of the host institution, the Economics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The sample survey designed by this team produced estimates of household income that were substantially different from those o…
Poverty and the Distribution of Land
Redistributive land reforms have begun to attract the attention of scholars and policy makers once again. In this paper, we review old arguments and bring them up-to-date in the light of recent research. We begin with the case in favour of redistributive reforms focusing on fragmented factor markets and systems of labour control, of which concentration of land ownership is but one aspect. We then examine land reform in practice, focusing on disti…
In Defence of Neo-Classical Neo-Populism
This paper is a response to the discussion in the special issue of this Journal onRedistributive Land Reform Today(Vol. 4, Nos. 1 and 2). We begin by attempting to clarify the methodological debate, differentiating our approach, which our critics call neo-classical neo-populism, from mainstream neo-classical economics and historical materialism. We then distinguish between land tenure reforms and redistributive land reforms, and argue that it is …
Living Standards, Inequality and Development
AcknowledgementsThe writer is grateful to Professors Nurul Islam and Keith Griffin and Dr Rizwanul Islam who read the draft of the paper and gave useful suggestions.About the AuthorAzizur Rahman Khan is Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside, USA
Consequences of Domestic Violence against Women
The aim of this study was to explore the consequences of domestic violence against rural Bangladeshi women. Drawing on in‐depth qualitative phenomenological interviews with 39 female victims of domestic violence from 8 rural settings of the Netrokona and Mymensingh districts, it was found that domestic violence not only causes serious consequences to the overall health and wellbeing of victims, it also causes negative impacts to their children an…
Women's coping strategies and help-seeking practices
This article examines the coping strategies and help-seeking practices of women victims of domestic violence perpetrated by their husbands in rural Bangladesh. By drawing on 39 semi-structured in-depth interviews, conducted in eight rural settings in Netrokona and Mymensingh districts, it was found that the abused women tried to cope with domestic violence in many ways. Making their marriages work at any cost was their prime motivation in coping …
Agrarian Systems and Rural Development
Public and Private Organizations
In spite of a growing body of research attempting to draw distinctions between public and private organizations over the years, it remains a disputable issue yet to be settled by organizational theorists and scholars alike. No conclusive understanding regarding the similarities and differences has been availed, and the scholarly discussions between these two types of organizations predominantly ended up finding out differences rather than similar…
Factors Associated with Domestic Violence against Rural Bangladeshi Women
This study examines the causes of domestic violence against rural Bangladeshi women. By drawing on thirty-nine semi-structured in-depth interviews through phenomenological approach of qualitative study, conducted in eight rural settings in Netrokona and Mymensingh districts, it was found that every experience of the women with domestic violence has a context or contexts. Broadly, the prominent causes of domestic violence were identified as dowry-…
Analysing Masculinity from the Key Theoretical Lenses and Searching for Linkages with Violence against Women
In recent years, masculinity has become an imperative and influential academic discourse in the domain of gender studies. Despite having been explained and theorised from a number of perspectives, it lacks overall clarity and vary widely across different social and cultural contexts. Keeping that perspective in mind, this study drawing a rigorous review of the literature and reflexive analysis has synthesized prominent and pertinent theoretical i…
Assessing the Policy Implementation of the Bangladeshi Domestic Violence Act
Violence against women in the home is a serious global social, health and human rights problem which transcends every level of society. Many countries have enacted and implemented specific legal policy interventions, often referred to as the “Domestic Violence Act”, in order protect women from violence at home. Although the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 was an important landmark in policy-making in Bangladesh, legal recou…
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Economics (21 works) · Geography (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Poison control (16 works) · Suicide prevention (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (11 works)