ISSN (Print): 2664-0422 | ISSN (Online): 2664-0430 | ISSN-L: 2664-0422

About This Issue

January to June, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2018.

Articles

Research Article # 2

Analysis of Female Empowerment in Academic Decision and Career Development

The objectives of the research study are analyze the Female Empowerment in Academic Decision and Career Development The research tool designed to carry out the study were two separate questionnaires. The subjects of this research study were analysis of female empowerment in ac...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)02
Research Article # 3

Current Arab Spring: A Wave of Democratic Revolution in the Arab World

This study aims to explore the causes and motives behind the Arab Uprising. Arab Spring was a wave of protests against the long-term authoritarian rulers of the approximate Arab countries. People of those countries were being deprived from their fundamental rights and went aga...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)03
Research Article # 4

Relationship between Teachers’ Emotional and Social Traits of Personality and their Impact on the Learning Attitudes of Students at College Level

The present study carried out to determine the relationship between teachers’ emotional and social traits of personality and their impact on the learning attitudes of students. The population of the study consisted of all teachers and students of public degree colleges of Fais...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)04
Research Article # 6

Contentious Activism and Inter-Korean Relations: An Analysis of External Powers’ Role

The division of Korean peninsula was actually the product of global powers. The historical background shows that severely the Korean peninsula was defeated but never divided. The World War Second was the incident that divided the Korean peninsula into Capitalist and Communist ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)06
Research Article # 7

Content Analysis of the Speeches of Bush and Musharraf on War against Terror

The present study critically analyses the political discourses of Bush and Musharraf’s speeches that account the war on terror issue. The data comprises of two speeches on war on terror. Using a qualitative analytical approach, the study draws on Hsieh & Shannon’s (2005) conte...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)07
Research Article # 8

Modern Domain Living: Qualitative Analysis of Fashion Practice’s Consciousness among University’s Undergraduate Female Students

This study explores the prevalence of fashion and factors persuading undergraduate female University’s students for fashion. The fashion is the modern cultural preservation of living style, appearance of physical personality and manner of interaction. Islam emphasizes o¬¬¬n pr...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)08
Research Article # 9

New Technologies and Digital Literacy in Education: A Shifting Paradigm

The newly emerging concept of Digital Literacy requires an entirely new set of skills, as pointed out by Eshet, including the emotional and cognitive ones, to be better able to work in a digitally oriented environment. With the advent of modern time, the use of technology has ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)09
Research Article # 11

Transit Trade Agreements between Afghanistan and Pakistan: A Comparative Study of 1965 and 2010

Afghanistan and Pakistan has signed two transit agreements in 1965 and 2010 respectively. These agreements were signed to facilitate Afghanistan with transit facilities and access to seaports for trading purposes. As trade always play a positive role to build peace and harmony...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)11
Research Article # 12

Perception towards the Use of Information and Communication Technologies among University Teachers and Students in Pakistan

The study aimed to discover the perception of teachers and their students about the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at university level. The study was phenomenology in nature; a qualitative survey method was used through semi-structured interview proto...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)12
Research Article # 13

Psychological Resistance to Socio-political Interpellation in Albert Camus’ The Outsider

Ideologies play an important role in human life and can influence human behaviors and actions. This paper investigates the nature of socio-political forces that try to determine an individual’s behavior and in return how the individual resists these interpellative attempts in ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)13
Research Article # 14

Experiences and Practices of Prospective Teachers during Teaching Practice in a Pre-service Teacher Education Program

The research set out to investigate the student teachers' positive and negative experiences during teaching practice. This description helped the researcher to understand student teachers' perspectives about the experience of teaching. Student teachers who were studying in the...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)14
Research Article # 15

Power Relations and the Changing Orientalist Discourse regarding Nawabs of Bahawalpur during First Half of Nineteenth Century

This study explores Orientalist discourse presented in colonial sources on Bahawalpur State documented during first half of nineteenth century. More specifically, here focus is on image of Nawabs presented in British travelogues and intelligence reports. The representation of ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)15
Research Article # 16

Media Framing of Combat, Army Operations, Conflict and Crises: An Analytical Insight

In the conflict context, media are subjugated even more harshly by the government to spot-on the state image, induce world views and gain their provision more than the other opposing side is needed more than ever. It is sustained in prior literature that a kingdom’s foreign st...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-I)16
Research Article # 17

Investigating the Effects of Terrorism on Emotional Stability of University Teachers in Pakistan

The study examined the linkage between terrorism and emotional wellbeing of university teachers. The teachers of Government College University, Faisalabad were the population of the study. The multistage sampling technique was adopted to select the respondents while the sample...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)17
Research Article # 18

Principals' Perspectives on Relevance of Professional Training to Characterize their Role and Capabilities within Secondary Schools in Punjab, Pakistan

The school heads are the key agent of school development and their training is a significant element which enables them to perform well and transform the schools and consequently the fate of nation. This paper is an intellectual effort to search out the relevance in between t...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)18
Research Article # 19

The Impact of Social Media Usage on Academic Performance of University Students: Moderating Role of Time of Use

Doubtless in current society; social media like Facebook, Twitter has gained wider acceptability and usability, mainly among students at universities. The social networking websites like twitter and face book, are constantly off-putting students from their academic studies wh...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)19
Research Article # 20

Representation of Religious Minorities in Pakistani and Indian Print Media: A Comparative Analysis

The study aimed to analyze and compare the pattern of minority representation in Pakistani and Indian print media. Representation of minorities in the media is important to address as mass media is playing apart in making and maintain the identities. There are many discourses ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)20
Research Article # 21

Comparing Social Media Political Activism in Hong Kong and Islamabad from the perspective of Political Participation Theory

Hong Kong and Pakistan have the similarity of British colonial tradition of democracy, political activism is considered as manifestation of democratic value. Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and China’s special administrative region (SAR) Hong Kong observed this political expressi...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)21
Research Article # 23

Role of Religion in State Discourse: A Reappraisal of Islamization in Pakistan

Role of religion in state discourse is an old age phenomenon for the politicians. Constitutional secularism solved some issues yet the significance of religion in human perception cannot be minimized. For Pakistan’s constitutional development, the main question was not only ab...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)23
Research Article # 25

Cultural Discourse on the Portrayal of Courtesans in Iqbal Hussain’s Realist Art: Conventions and Implications

Iqbal Hussain is considered as one of the most renowned painters of Pakistan. He is known for his stark realism in portraying the courtesans of the Red Light district of Lahore. This paper focuses on various artistic conventions that Iqbal Hussain used to express a controversi...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)25
Research Article # 26

Media Development VS Human Development: The Case of Pakistan

The twentieth century was characterized by the evolution of media whereas the twenty-first century is witnessing its rapid development. An opportune manifestation of this can be found in its massive expansion in Pakistan. The pace at which electronic media in Pakistan has expa...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)26
Research Article # 28

Prevalence of Drug Abuse among University Students in Lahore City, Pakistan

This paper highlights the use and availability of drugs which has almost gotten out of hands in Lahore, and university students are the most affected one. Call it an emotional instability or curiosity, majority of the students have tried out what a drug tastes like, even if it...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)28
Research Article # 29

Corruption and Fiscal Decentralization: A Comparative Analysis for Developed and Developing Economies

Fiscal decentralization is thought to be a tool to control corruption and improve governance in the economy. Theoretical literature on fiscal federalism supports this idea by establishing the argument of more transparency in smaller jurisdictions. The present study examines th...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)29
Research Article # 30

Analysis of Indian Films Propaganda against Muslims and Pakistan

Media play a vital role in propagating individual ideologies. Media designate the ideologies on the consent of ruling party. This point can be cleared from the following reference that “in America during Vietnam war media plays a vital role and they spread the news related to ...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)30
Research Article # 31

Influence of Internet usage on Emotional Instability, Time Management and Academic Performance at Tertiary Level

The purpose of the study was to identify the effects of Internet use on Emotional Instability, Time Management and Academic Performance of University Students. The nature of study was descriptive and falls in positivism paradigm for this survey method was used. For the purpose...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)31
Research Article # 33

The Area Based Effects of Cyber Bullying on Academic Achievement and Behavior of Students at Higher Secondary Level

The purpose of this research is to discover the effects of cyber bullying on students' academic achievement and their behavior. The objective of the research was to find out the academic achievement affected by cyberbullying and behavior of students on Area basis at higher sec...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35484/pssr.2018(2-1)33