in recent years, space syntax theory has been used for analyzing spatial configurations; these analyses mostly focus on social aspects. according to the space syntax theory, space arrangements affect the space usage in buildings. this paper aims at studying spatial configurations of some traditional houses in iran in terms of flexibility factor. besides of having the housing function and provid...

We use artifact analysis to describe the process of scientific dissemination in a community-based program that informs parents and professional caregivers about early childhood development. We define this program as a network of information management and our unit of analysis are the sociocultural activities of dissemination, and the artifacts that shape them. Drawing upon activity theory, soci...

Parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory) is an evidence-based theory of socialization and lifespan development that attempts to predict and explain major causes, consequences, and other correlates of interpersonal—especially parental—acceptance and rejection within the United States and worldwide (Rohner, 1986, 2004; Rohner and Rohner, 1980). It attempts to answer five classes of questi...

While research findings regarding learning are somewhat mixed, early indications are encouraging and suggest sociocultural learning is useful in improving student learning under certain situations. It is suggested that future research efforts may be enhanced by more closely linking research to theory, building on the research from the field of education, and developing appropriate instruments t...

This thesis is set in a research e ort that aims to model sociocultural and temporal aspects to allow Senegalese communities to share and to co-construct their sociocultural knowledge. Indeed, with the globalization it is very common to meet African youth and particularly Senegalese youth knowing more about the geography of the West than their own countries. Thus, to refresh the memory of our f...