Personal Information

 Professor

Department of  Academic Staff and Employees' Affairs

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Contact Information

Phone: 67982

Email: oalmodaf@kau.edu.sa

Obaid Ali O. Al-Modaf

 Professor

Profile

Was born in Al-thinyah, Bisha. Like to swim and watch international football.

Education

  • 2003

    Doctorate degree from SociologyCollege of Liberal Arts and Hu, Virginia Tech, بلاكسبرج, امــريــكـا

Employment

Research Interests

Household Consumption

Privatization and Employment System

            Poverty

            Global Economy and Social Structure

            Social Capital in Local Societies

            Islamic Work Ethics

            Technology and Labor Market

            Crime in the Workplace
Social Effects of Economic Inflation

Scientific interests

Publications:

 

          Al-Modaf, Obaid. Sociology of Advertising Using Religious Symbol:

          A Content Analysis of a Sample of Commercial Ads in the Saudi  Society. Journal of Social Sciences, Kuwait University. [Forthcoming]

 

Al-Modaf, Obaid. (2006).  Islamic Work Ethic Code: A Conceptual Study. Umm Al-Qura University Educational, Social Sciences and Humanities, 17,3:9-28  

         

 

Al-Modaf, Obaid.  (2005).  Attitudes toward the Effects of Privatization on the Employment System: A Study of Undergraduate College Students in Saudi Arabia. Scientific Publishing Center, King Abdulaziz University.

 

       Al-Modaf, Obaid.  (2005).  Labor, Capital, and State in a Globalized Economy: Power-Dependence Relationships. Journal of King Abdulaziz University Economics and Administration, 19:81-106.

       Al-Modaf, Obaid

 

Al-Modaf, Obaid. (2005). Poverty Phenomenon: A Sociological Critical   Study of  the Phenomenon’s Nature, Causes, and Ways of Remedy.  Journal of King Abdulaziz University Arts and Humanities, 13: 97-124.

 

 

Presentations at Professional Meeting

 

Arab World and Globalization Challenges.  Paper “Inequality of Globalization-based Development: Another Leading Factor for the Underdevelopment of the Third World Societies.” April, 2007, Irbid, Jordan.

 

Workshop Means to Implement the Document of Views of Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on Higher Education. Paper title: “Attitudes toward the Effects of Privatization on the Employment System: A Study of Undergraduate College Students in Saudi Arabia”. 30-1/2/2005, Jeddah, King Abdulaziz University.

 

The Southern Sociological Society.  Paper title: “Class and Consumption: A Comparative Analysis of Consumption Pattern Across Different Social Classes”.  April 4, 2002, Baltimore, MD.

 

Participant of the Student Annual Research Seminar at the Sociology Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University April 2002 and 2003.

Courses

Statistics in Human Sciences 102 SOS
Social Studies in Arab World 616 SOC
Economic Sociology 322 SOC

Areas of expertise