Riaz Hassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Riaz Hassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Riaz |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassan |
| SIGNATURE | HASSAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How religion, geography and demography shape Pakistan’s state, society and politics
Scp>Alatas,SyedHussein (1928–2007)
Syed Hussein Alatas was one of Southeast Asia's most eminent social scientists. He is known for his seminal study Myth of the Lazy which offered penetrating analyses of colonial capitalism and its sociological consequences. His prolific scholarly output also made significant contributions to the sociology of corruption, political sociology, and sociology of religion, and modernization
Why size matters: Majority/minority status and Muslim piety in South and Southeast Asia
The differences in the socio-economic outcomes of majorities and minorities have been well studied in sociology. This article breaks new ground by investigating the effect on religiosity of majority/minority status in two Muslim-majority and two Muslim-minority countries of South and Southeast Asia. Religiosity is conceptualised as a multidimensional phenomenon. The article critically discusses this conceptualisation through an analysis of survey…
Religion, Modernization and the Islamic Ummah
In this paper I explore the impact of modernization and social change on the Islamic ummah (community of believers) and how they are shaping the emerging struggle between 'hybridity' and 'authenticity' among Muslims and Islamic movements. The paper will explore the challenges of this struggle and its sociological implications for the 'de-centering' of the Muslim world into multiple autonomous regions. I argue that the future of the Muslim ummah m…
Minority size and socio-economic inequalities: A case study of Muslim minority in India
The authors investigate the relationship between Muslim minority size and inequality using a new cross-sectional dataset of 599 Indian districts. The authors review existing studies, propose a new population growth inequality theory, and develop three hypotheses. A newly constructed multidimensional index of social well-being is used as a proxy for intergroup inequality. A multi-level mixed effects regression analysis with controls for urbanizati…
Isis and the Caliphate
Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger, ISIS: the state of terror (London: William Collins, 2015), 432 pp., £8.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780008120962Patrick Cockburn, The rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the new Sunn
Suicide Bombing
Suicide bombing is lethal violence involving the targeted use of self‐destructing humans against a perceived enemy to create fear and mayhem in order to undermine the state's ability to maintain public order. It is associated with endemic and protracted conflicts caused mainly by territorial occupation, dispossession, and citizenship rights. It is a weapon of the militarily challenged in asymmetrical conflicts between state and nonstate actors an…
Religious Institutions and Political Order: A Comparative Study of Muslim Countries
This paper examines the relationship between politics and religion in Muslim countries. Many western and Muslim scholars argue that Islam is not only a religion but also a blueprint for social order, and therefore encompasses all domains of life, including law and the state. After examining these and related issues, the paper reports empirical evidence, which shows that institutional configurations form an important factor in mediating and articu…
Suicide Bombings
In an age when the Western world is preoccupied with worries about weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands, terrorists across many parts of the globe are using a more basic device as a weapon – life itself. Suicide bombing has become a weapon of choice among terrorist groups because of its lethality and unrivalled ability to cause mayhem and fear, but what is the real driving force behind these attacks? For the first time, Suicide Bombings…
Homicide Bombers: Life as a Weapon
Suicide Terrorism
Suicide Bombings: Homicidal Killing or a Weapon of War
Socio-Economic Marginalization of Muslims in Contemporary Australia: Implications for Social Inclusion
Using specially generated tabulations of Muslim and non-Muslim Australians from the 2006 Census, this paper examines the social and economic position of Muslims in Australia and implications for their social inclusion. Although Australian Muslims come from more than 130 countries, the largest number, 38%, are Australian-born and almost 40% are younger than 20 years of age. Educationally they are high-achievers but on all indicators of socioeconom…
The Reality of Religious Labels: A Study of Muslim Religiosity
The meaning of the religious labels used by people to describe themselves and others is often problematic. Religiosity, religious behavior and experience vary in the way they are reported and understood. This study presents a methodological approach to investigating the relationship between self-reported religiosity and an objectively constructed index of religious intensity. The data were obtained from a multi-country study of Muslim religiosity…
Interrupting a History of Tolerance: Anti-Semitism and the Arabs
Global Rise of Suicide Terrorism: An Overview
Expressions of Religiosity and Blasphemy in Modern Societies
On Being Religious: Patterns of Religious Commitment in Muslim Societies 1
Globalisation's Challenge to the Islamic Ummah
Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia: Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas
Globalization, modernization and colonialism have played a pivotal role in the social transformation of Southeast Asian societies. The essays in this volume examine three aspects of this transformation: social change and development, the role of intellectuals, religion and cultural values. The volume honours the distinguished Malaysian sociologist Syed Hussein Alatas and his seminal contributions to the sociology of Southeast Asian societies. The…
Institutional Configurations and Trust in Religious Institutions in Muslim Societies
Imagining religion: Self‐images of Islam in the late Twentieth century
Mohammad Khatami. Islam, Dialogue and Civil Society
Faithlines: Institutional Configurations and Trust in Religious Institutions in Muslim Societies
Historical scholarship indicates that the institutional configurations of Islamic societies can be classified into two types, namely, differentiated social formations (societies in which religion and state occupy different space), and undifferentiated social formations (societies in which religion and state are integrated i.e., Islamic state). Using survey data from a comparative study of four Muslim societies, this paper examines the level of tr…
Faithlines: Religion, Society and the State in Indonesia and Pakistan
L'A. etudie les rapports entre la religion islamique et l'Etat en Indonesie et au Pakistan. L'Etat indonesien defend son ideologie seculaire de pancasila ou la religion demeure separee de l'Etat ce qui n'est pas le cas du Pakistan ou l'Islam fait partie integrante de l'ideologie de l'Etat. Il semble que l'integration de la religion dans l'Etat dans les pays musulmans ne se fait pas toujours dans l'interet des institutions islamiques et de l'elite…
Singapore: Society in Transition
On Being Religious: Patterns of Religious Commitment in Muslim Societies 1
Environmental Orientations: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
A new approach to social ecology is offered which attempts to integrate a variety of theories, each of which approaches the problem of man's relationship to his environment from a different perspective. It is postulated that man refers to the environment to achieve not one, but a multiplicity of purposes. To each purpose corresponds a type of environmental orientation. Four such orientations are distinguished: the instrumental, the territorial, t…
Socio-Economic Marginalization of Muslims in Contemporary Australia: Implications for Social Inclusion
Using specially generated tabulations of Muslim and non-Muslim Australians from the 2006 Census, this paper examines the social and economic position of Muslims in Australia and implications for their social inclusion. Although Australian Muslims come from more than 130 countries, the largest number, 38%, are Australian-born and almost 40% are younger than 20 years of age. Educationally they are high-achievers but on all indicators of socioeconom…
Islamization: An analysis of religious, political and social change in Pakistan
(1985). Islamization: an analysis of religious, political and social change in Pakistan. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 263-284
Residential Choices of Immigrants in Australia
In recent years Asian-Australians, especially those born in Indochina, have become a target of criticism by anti-immigration groups which accuse them of choosing to live only in ¿closed societies' and ¿ethnic ghettos' in Australian cities.... Evidence presented in the article shows clearly that while immigrant groups may prefer to settle in close proximity of their family and kin for practical and/or emotional reasons, their preference is not eth…
Euthanasia and the Medical Profession: An Australian Study
Advances in medical knowledge and technology are enabling more people to live longer in modern societies. This situation has also created dilemmas for medical practitioners in treating severely or chronically ill patients where the harm caused to them by treatment appears to outweigh the benefits. After reviewing some of the major legal and ethical issues confronting medical practitioners in Australia, this paper reports findings of a survey of A…
International Tourism and Intercultural Communication: The case of Japanese Tourists in Singapore
Expressions of Religiosity and Blasphemy in Modern Societies
Home owners, home renovation and residential mobility
Contemporary studies into residential mobility focus on mover households, but pay little attention to households that do not move. Conceptually, it is assumed that households make a voluntary decision to move when their current residence no longer meets their needs. This argument does not however account for households who, in the face of residential dissatisfaction, renovate or undertake alterations to better satisfy their needs. This paper pres…
The Muslim minority‐majority relations in Australian society: A sociological analysis
Religion, Modernization and the Islamic Ummah
In this paper I explore the impact of modernization and social change on the Islamic ummah (community of believers) and how they are shaping the emerging struggle between 'hybridity' and 'authenticity' among Muslims and Islamic movements. The paper will explore the challenges of this struggle and its sociological implications for the 'de-centering' of the Muslim world into multiple autonomous regions. I argue that the future of the Muslim ummah m…
Isis and the Caliphate
Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger, ISIS: the state of terror (London: William Collins, 2015), 432 pp., £8.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780008120962Patrick Cockburn, The rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the new Sunn
Suicide Bombings: Homicidal Killing or a Weapon of War
Globalisation's Challenge to the Islamic Ummah
Religion, Society, and the State in Pakistan: Pirs and Politics
The main objective of this article is to begin a sociohistorical exploration of the evolution of Muslim society in Pakistan and historically in the subcontinent. This effort has been prompted by recent works on Muslim society by Gellnerl and on Pakistan by Ahmad, Ewing, Talbott, Gilmartin, Eaton, Metcalf, and others.2 The essay will focus on two interrelated areas, namely: (1) the spread of and the evolution and development of in the sociocultura…
Suicide in Singapore
Singapore, lying less than one hundred miles north of the equator and at the extremity of the Malay Peninsula, is one of the smallest countries in Asia. It is also one of Asia's most urbanized, industrialized and materially prosperous countries. It has a stable, one-party-dominant government and its population of 2.3 million, the majority of whom are Chinese, with sizeable numbers of Indians and Malays, has access to a comprehensive network of so…
Why size matters: Majority/minority status and Muslim piety in South and Southeast Asia
The differences in the socio-economic outcomes of majorities and minorities have been well studied in sociology. This article breaks new ground by investigating the effect on religiosity of majority/minority status in two Muslim-majority and two Muslim-minority countries of South and Southeast Asia. Religiosity is conceptualised as a multidimensional phenomenon. The article critically discusses this conceptualisation through an analysis of survey…
Minority size and socio-economic inequalities: A case study of Muslim minority in India
The authors investigate the relationship between Muslim minority size and inequality using a new cross-sectional dataset of 599 Indian districts. The authors review existing studies, propose a new population growth inequality theory, and develop three hypotheses. A newly constructed multidimensional index of social well-being is used as a proxy for intergroup inequality. A multi-level mixed effects regression analysis with controls for urbanizati…
Homicide Bombers: Life as a Weapon
Asian migrants in Australia: A socio‐economic study
This paper presents a socio‐economic profile of Asian migrants in Australia, using data from the 1981 Census of Population. It shows that Asian migrants are highly educated (large proportions are university graduates and are in professional occupations), English‐speaking (many are bi‐lingual) and mostly Christian. The paper then goes on to estimate the economic benefits Asian migrants bring when they migrate to Australia, as well as the costs the…
Some Aspects of Occupational and Class Structure in West Malaysia 1
A Protestant Ethic Scale
Cet article rend compte d'une étude dont l'objectif était de mettre au point un instrument de mesure de l'intériorisation de l'éthique protestante. L'échelle constituée à cette fin a été ap pelée ' Echelle de l'éthique protestante '. Elle consiste en 47 items et mesure l'intériorisation des 6 ' dimensions centrales ' mises en évidence par Ch.T. Jonassen. Ces dimensions sont les suivantes : 1) attitude rationnelle et scientifique en face de la nat…
A Protestant Ethic Scale
Cet article rend compte d'une étude dont l'objectif était de mettre au point un instrument de mesure de l'intériorisation de l'éthique protestante. L'échelle constituée à cette fin a été ap pelée ' Echelle de l'éthique protestante '. Elle consiste en 47 items et mesure l'intériorisation des 6 ' dimensions centrales ' mises en évidence par Ch.T. Jonassen. Ces dimensions sont les suivantes : 1) attitude rationnelle et scientifique en face de la nat…
Some Aspects of Occupational and Class Structure in West Malaysia 1
Ethnic Outmarriage Rates in Singapore: The Influence of Traditional Socio-Cultural Organization
Variations in interethnic marriage rates in Singapore demonstrate that the influence of ethnicity and religion on family organization is far stronger than the influence of class or education. In particular the striking variations in the proportions of men and women marrying out of each of the major ethnic groups in the Republic appear to result from the continuing operation of traditional ideals of family and local-group organization in a contemp…
Interethnic Marriage in Singapore: A Study in Interethnic Relations
Examines an important aspect of interethnic relations, namely interethnic marriage, in Singapore, 'one of Southeast Asia's most ethnically heterogenous societies'. With chapters on the sociological significance, sociological factors and types of such marriage, traditional sociocultural organization and ethnic marrying-out rates, and an assessment of findings and research possibilities.
International Tourism and Intercultural Communication: The case of Japanese Tourists in Singapore
A Note on the Developmental Process in Singapore
Singapore is one of the most developed countries in Southeast Asia by most standards commonly used by social scientists. The factors which have directly or indirectly contributed to this degree of development include the following: an ecological location which makes Singapore the natural centre of the region; an excellent harbour; the political structure; a continuous supply of foreign capital; a development-oriented bureaucracy; planned industri…
Singapore: Society in Transition
Environmental Orientations: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
A new approach to social ecology is offered which attempts to integrate a variety of theories, each of which approaches the problem of man's relationship to his environment from a different perspective. It is postulated that man refers to the environment to achieve not one, but a multiplicity of purposes. To each purpose corresponds a type of environmental orientation. Four such orientations are distinguished: the instrumental, the territorial, t…
Some Social Concomitants of Interethnic Marriage in Singapore
An analysis of interethnic marriage in multi-ethnic Singapore shows that those who marry across ethnic boundaries are more likely to be those: (a) who have been previously married; (b) who marry across the religious lines; and (c) who come from the lower and upper occupational groups. Some patterns unique to Singapore are found with regard to age. In general, Singapore data support the deviance explanation, rather than the summation theory of int…
Social and Psychological Consequences of Household Crowding
Singapore: Society in Transition
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
Families in Flats: A Study of Low Income Families in Public Housing
Suicide in Singapore
Singapore, lying less than one hundred miles north of the equator and at the extremity of the Malay Peninsula, is one of the smallest countries in Asia. It is also one of Asia's most urbanized, industrialized and materially prosperous countries. It has a stable, one-party-dominant government and its population of 2.3 million, the majority of whom are Chinese, with sizeable numbers of Indians and Malays, has access to a comprehensive network of so…
Ethnicity, Culture, and Fertility: An Exploratory Study of Fertility Behaviour and Sexual Beliefs
Iran's Islamic revolutionaries: Before and after the revolution
(1984). Iran's Islamic revolutionaries: Before and after the revolution. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 675-686
Islamization: An analysis of religious, political and social change in Pakistan
(1985). Islamization: an analysis of religious, political and social change in Pakistan. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 263-284
An Introductory Note
Religion, Society, and the State in Pakistan: Pirs and Politics
The main objective of this article is to begin a sociohistorical exploration of the evolution of Muslim society in Pakistan and historically in the subcontinent. This effort has been prompted by recent works on Muslim society by Gellnerl and on Pakistan by Ahmad, Ewing, Talbott, Gilmartin, Eaton, Metcalf, and others.2 The essay will focus on two interrelated areas, namely: (1) the spread of and the evolution and development of in the sociocultura…
A Way of Dying: Suicide in Singapore
Asian migrants in Australia: A socio‐economic study
This paper presents a socio‐economic profile of Asian migrants in Australia, using data from the 1981 Census of Population. It shows that Asian migrants are highly educated (large proportions are university graduates and are in professional occupations), English‐speaking (many are bi‐lingual) and mostly Christian. The paper then goes on to estimate the economic benefits Asian migrants bring when they migrate to Australia, as well as the costs the…
The Muslim minority‐majority relations in Australian society: A sociological analysis
The Muslim world in the international economic system – an overview
(1992). The Muslim world in the international economic system – an overview. Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 298-307
Euthanasia and the Medical Profession: An Australian Study
Advances in medical knowledge and technology are enabling more people to live longer in modern societies. This situation has also created dilemmas for medical practitioners in treating severely or chronically ill patients where the harm caused to them by treatment appears to outweigh the benefits. After reviewing some of the major legal and ethical issues confronting medical practitioners in Australia, this paper reports findings of a survey of A…
Residential Choices of Immigrants in Australia
In recent years Asian-Australians, especially those born in Indochina, have become a target of criticism by anti-immigration groups which accuse them of choosing to live only in ¿closed societies' and ¿ethnic ghettos' in Australian cities.... Evidence presented in the article shows clearly that while immigrant groups may prefer to settle in close proximity of their family and kin for practical and/or emotional reasons, their preference is not eth…
Faithlines: Religion, Society and the State in Indonesia and Pakistan
L'A. etudie les rapports entre la religion islamique et l'Etat en Indonesie et au Pakistan. L'Etat indonesien defend son ideologie seculaire de pancasila ou la religion demeure separee de l'Etat ce qui n'est pas le cas du Pakistan ou l'Islam fait partie integrante de l'ideologie de l'Etat. Il semble que l'integration de la religion dans l'Etat dans les pays musulmans ne se fait pas toujours dans l'interet des institutions islamiques et de l'elite…
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