the purpose of this paper was to measure the social capital of the medical students of mashhad medical sciences university in the place they lived (their neighborhood), and the factors affecting it. the statistical universe was the university with a total of 5383 students. the sample was 244. the sampling was done using the systematic classification method, the classes being the faculty and sex...

cooperatives, established through a unification of human and economic capital within their members can lead to strengthening of the social capital. the main purpose of this descriptive – correlational research was to investigate the influence of membership in production cooperatives on the level of social capital. the statistical population for the study consisted of: poultry producers in coope...

a full account of architectural science must include empirical findings about the social and psychological influences that housing have on their occupants. tall residential housing can have a myriad of such effects. this review summarizes the results of research on the influences of high-rise housing on residents’ experiences of the housing, satisfaction, preferences, social behavior, children,...

The right framework for studying normative issues in infosociety and MAS is that of deliberate or spontaneous social order, and intended or unintended, centralised or decentralised forms of social control. For effectively supporting human cooperation it is necessary to “incorporate” social and normative knowledge in intelligent technology; computers should deal with—and thus partially “understa...

In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search. Hence, job search theory suggests that individuals with larger networks use informal search ...