Modelling social influence and cultural variation in global low-carbon vehicle transitions

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Modelling low income transitions

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of endogeneous switching regression, and is fitted using simulated maximum likelihood methods. The estimate...

Contradiction, intervention, and urban low carbon transitions

This paper presents an analysis of contradictions in urban low carbon transitions as engines of change. Following Kojève’s reading of contradiction in Hegel’s oeuvre, I argue that contradiction is a constitutive feature of low carbon interventions. This is an alternative to conventional readings of contradiction as a provisional encounter of opposites in which one will eventually cancel out the...

The Influence of Low Carbon Economy on Corporate Social Responsibility

Under low carbon economy environment, as the pioneer of implementing low carbon economy, corporations have to follow current tendency, change ideas, and take their social responsibility actively, so as to win new competitiveness and achieve sustainable development per se. Firstly, we illustrate the positive influence of low carbon economy on corporate social responsibility through elaborating t...

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran