http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4273 2026-04-05T23:50:49Z 2026-04-05T23:50:49Z Tanjeela, Mumita Billah, Masum Rutherford, Shannon http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4275 2024-03-05T04:06:25Z 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z

Understanding Challenges and Coping Strategies of University Students in Dhaka City During COVID-19 Tanjeela, Mumita; Billah, Masum; Rutherford, Shannon The COVID-19 health emergency has challenged the socio-economic circumstances and health status of mankind worldwide. The effect of these disruptions trickled down and impacted the lives of vulnerable people, including students. The prolonged closure of educational institutions has contributed to aggravating these negative impacts. Around 40 million students have experienced adverse financial and health repercussions amidst the pandemic in Bangladesh. Students experienced inevitable changes in the trajectory of their lives, including lifestyles, relationships with family and community, and reliance on support. As the pandemic-ordained lockdown required virtual learning, students found themselves unprepared, anxious, and ambivalent. The coping strategies of the students amidst the COVID-19 have not been adequately explored in Bangladesh. The objectives of our study are firstly, to delve deeper into the challenges and coping strategies embraced by the students from public and private universities in Dhaka. Secondly, it aimed to identify how social connectedness supported students for resilience building.

2023-11-22T00:00:00Z Khan, Anisur Rahman http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4274 2024-03-05T04:02:22Z 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z

Men, Masculinity and Suicide in Jhenaidah District, Bangladesh Khan, Anisur Rahman Emile Durkheim’s Le Suicide (1897) laid the foundation for theoretical and methodological innovation in sociology. Within the framework of the positivistic paradigm, Durkheim viewed suicide as a social fact–caused due to social influences/forces. Nonetheless, Le Suicide later received several criticisms on theoretical and methodological grounds. In Social Meaning of Suicide (1967), Jack Douglas, a post-Durkheimian sociologist, emphasizes that sociological analysis must uncover and interpret the range of motives and meanings associated with each act of suicide. Suicide is a serious but under-researched public health problem in Bangladesh. Every year more than 10000 people die by suicide in Bangladesh. Sociological work (both Durkheimeian and post- Durkheimian) on suicide is almost absent in Bangladesh. Drawing on the interpretive methodological paradigm as suggested by Jack Douglas, the current research attempted to explore the social meanings/motives of male suicide from various rural settings of Jhenaidah district. In this connection, the theoretical embodiment of hegemonic masculinity propounded by sociologist Raewyn Connell was used to explicate/understand the social context/meanings of suicide. For the study, 15 male suicide cases were selected based on referrals from a local non-governmental organization named Society for Voluntary Activities (SOVA), which works to reduce suicide in the district. For each case, three separate interviews of the participants (15x3=45) were conducted. Data were collected in two phases in 2020. Each case was treated separately and analyzed in descriptive and reflexive ways. Findings disclosed that the deceased men encountered serious difficulties in achieving/retaining the hegemonic or culturally most exalted versions of masculinity in their real lives. Eventually, they considered suicide as the only way to escape from shame and defeat which stemmed from the crises of their masculinity. Based on the findings, the study suggested some protective actions to minimize the socially embedded risk factors of male suicide in Bangladesh.

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