Polygamy

Moral relativism is a hypothesis which propels the possibility that good and bad are not total values and can't be characterized by any standard. They are individualized by one's own surroundings or their social osmosis. Moral relativism can be utilized to impact positive change by advancing resilience for various ways of life and traditions or to impact negative outcomes by legitimizing malevolent and criminal movement. However, under good relativism, it may be difficult to characterize…

countries like Turkey totally abandoned the Sharia and adopted new law codes based on European systems. Most Muslim countries put the government in charge of prosecuting and punishing criminal acts. In the area of family law, many countries prohibited polygamy and divorce by the husband's repudiation of his wife. Modern legislation along with Muslim legal scholars who are attempting to relate the will of Allah to the 20th century have reopened the door to interpreting the Sharia. This has…

The concept of marriage is understandably as varied as the number of religions that approach it. Yet, one similarity found among all the major world religions is that marriage is held “as a vital and valuable institution and practice that lies at the heart of the family and at the foundation of a broader society.” Marriage as an institution holds great weight within religions, upon which devotees can construct families in the image of their given deity/deities. How the institution does that,…

The nineteenth is the century of the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, in a long series of bloody and demoralizing European wars ; the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire by the Greek Revolution, and of the Spanish Empire by that of Mexico and South America; the repeated revolutions in France; the War of 1813 between England and the United States; the War between the United States and Mexico; the War between the Northern and Southern States of the American Union; the unification of Germany,…

Our sexuality is a part of who we are, just as our religion, culture, beliefs, traditions, and ethnicity all add up to make us who we are so does our sexuality. Without our sexuality we would be missing a part of us. So if our sexuality is an important aspect of what makes us who we are why do our culture and or religion taboo this part of us? When our Founding Father of psychology, Sigmund Freud introduced his psychosexual developmental stages and talked about our sexual drives he was rejected…

What is marriage? Some people say that “marriage is defined between a man and a woman” (Sterngass 19). But why should a commitment with such importance only be allowed between a man and a woman? Weren’t we the ones who fought against segregation, yet we are the ones discriminating against homosexual couples? Homosexuals have feelings too. They have partners too. They are also human beings who all they want is to legally marry their significant other. Isn’t society against bullying? This issue…

friend can be family, where others believe that family must be blood relatives, and share the same heritage. In this chapter in sociology, as a class we discussed all the different names and types of families. Ranging from endogamy, exogamy, monogamy, polygamy. This chapter also shared insight onto how different cultures betray families. That is why I choose to write this paper over families, because before I took this class, I did not know how families can differ so much, and how much has…

Introduction The rise of Islamic civilization is largely connected to Prophet Muhammad who played a vital role in Islamic religion. Many authors have been obliged to write about historic civilization about Islamic religion. The basis of many writings is to trace the reasons as to why there was a sudden rise of Islam after the death of Prophet Muhammad. However, there has been a lot of debate especially in the media as to why the religion is highly associated with terror activities. In the…

Religion has been a big part of individuals and society. Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church all those who adhere to them (Religion). People all around the world today practice all different kinds of religious beliefs with which religion group they follow. It informs the lives of virtually every society as a complex system…

discrimination in both nations. As demonstrated by the differing social responses to HIV diagnosis, HIV-related stigma and judgement is closely tied to society’s perception of what is acceptable behaviour for each gender. Sexual promiscuity or assumptions of polygamy defy the traditional imagery of the female partner, therefore increasing the severity of the stigma and disapproval that…