– Personal income distribution in the USA has a well-defined two-class structure. The majority of population (97–99%) belongs to the lower class characterized by the exponential Boltzmann-Gibbs (“thermal”) distribution, whereas the upper class (1–3% of population) has a Pareto power-law (“superthermal”) distribution. By analyzing income data for 1983–2001, we show that the “thermal” part is sta...

the iranian new wave filmmakers pay attention and focus on the social changes in years before the islamic revolution in 1357 (1979).in these years due to the economical and social changes and the government’s attempt for modernizing the traditional social system and social uplifting has spread and this caused criticism by the iranian new wave filmmaker of that era. social approach and mobility ...

– We show that income distribution in the USA has a well-defined two-class structure. The majority of population (97–99%) belongs to the lower class characterized by the exponential Boltzmann-Gibbs (“thermal”) distribution. The upper class (1–3% of population) has a Pareto power-law (“superthermal”) distribution, whose parameters change in time with the rise and fall of stock market. We also di...

There is an enormous literature on the concept of class that consists mostly of debates about which properties should be included in the concept. The result is a variety of class schemes and arguments that center around which class scheme is most appropriate for capturing the class structure of modern society. Dahrendorf (1959) argues that classes should be identified with authority relations. ...

life style has three dimensions: behavioral, attitudinal, and motivational. the current study aims to investigate life style of young in mashhad from behavioral aspect based on eight factors including cultural consumption, body management, political behavior, derivative behavior, make up tendency, cloths consumption, food consumption, and religiosity. the sample of the current study includes 40...

This is a highly intelligent but, to this reviewer, very irritating book which sets out to show that the picture of the criminal which even the social scientist has is a stereotype and that offenders are useful scapegoats which society needs. That many social scientists, criminologists or psychiatrists are middle-class and may make assumptions that are culture and class-determined cannot be den...