sociology of literature, on the one hand, is related to sociology and ,on the other hand, to literature.this approach mainly focuses on the structure and the content of the literary work and its relation to the society. it also scrutinizes the interaction between literature and the society as well as how the writer reflects social issues from intellectual, religious and social perspectives inth...

Political Development in Social Sciences Textbooks: Content Analysis of the High School Texts M. Abtahi, Ph.D.* G.R. Mohammadimehr**   Political development, as an educational objective, could be achieved if certain concepts and values are dealt with in the textbooks. Chief among such concepts and values are rationality, scientific tendencies, law abiding, group work, consultation, ...

the paper under review delineates the scenario, perspective and the future trends of science –driven entrepreneurship in the islamic world. it digs out the factors causing the sluggishness and suggests the plan of action for the renaissance of indigenous science –driven entrepreneurship with grafting of the modern scientific high tech marketing techniques on it. the paper highlights that entrep...

The purpose of the present paper was to pursue the social factors involving in scientific papers and also examine the impact of tendency of PhD candidates to participate in research projects, membership and activity of PhD candidate at conferences, the willingness in scientific collaboration of professors and researchers. The sample size consisted of 92 PhD candidates at Islamic Azad University...

This editorial presents the latest advances of scientific Research on Technology enhanced learning in social networks and mobile contexts. It summarizes the key finding and promotes three main pillars for future scientific contribution to the domain namely: Enabling Technologies, Educational Strategies, and Next Generation Social Networks for Educational Purposes. It can serve as a position doc...

This paper presents a set of models and an extensible social web platform (namely, Knowledge Spaces) that supports novel and agile social scientific dissemination processes. Knowledge Spaces is based on a model for structured, evolving, and multi-facet scientific resources that allows the representation of structured, evolving, and multi-facet scientific knowledge and metaknowledge, of effectiv...

this study historically analyzes the scientific output of mathematics to describe its structure, notions and scientific origin using the historiographical method. the research data consisted of scientific outputs of mathematics in isi database, science citation index (sci) and social science citation index (ssci) during 8 years (1990 to 2007). the data collection tool was the search engine and ...