Beginning from the argument that the sociology of educational knowledge remains a sociology without a theory of knowledge, this paper illustrates the signiŽcance of the structuring of knowledge for the development of intellectual Želds through a study of cultural studies in British higher education. The paper presents a means of bridging the divide between analyses of ‘relations to’ and ‘relati...

The article scrutinizes Turkish-Azerbaijani key areas of cooperation – political, economic, military-technical, cultural and humanitarian. For instance, in addition to intensive interaction at the level high-ranking political elites, Azerbaijani-Turkish unity context is largely built on basis classifying foreign policy partners into common friends enemies (the “friend-foe” principle). Thus, bot...

Thanks to increasing globalization, both West and Islamic ideas are finding new adherents among young people in Central Asia, though an “Asian” identity is not developing, at least not yet. The changes are happening so quickly, it is hard to say whether one set of ideas will prevail or if the result will be a new amalgam. G defined as an increase in the volume and intensity of flows—of goods, f...

The South Caucasus is a unique small and densely populated region in the southern part of Caucasus. It consists three independent states - Georgia, Azerbaijan Armenia. Georgia actively engaged Peaceful Neighborhood Initiative strives to deepen political economic relations with countries based on sovereign interests. In these processes, strengthening mutually beneficial, trust-based cooperation ...

Today wine production in Azerbaijan totals to about two million decalitres a year. Yet, the yearly wine consumption is only one million decalitres resulting in a total surplus of about one million decalitres of wine. In consequence, export is gaining in importance resulting in an increase of importance to produce high quality wine. In this context the production of high quality grapes is very i...

caspian region is on the receiver of caspian sea with five coastal states including of iran, russia, azerbaijan, turkmenistan and kazakhstan - in the surrounding sea, due to having common points in the features of natural geography, special location, political and cultural and historical background, is known as a geopolitical region. following the collapse of the soviet ::::union::::, due to ch...

On the basis of integrating objectification theory research with research on body image and eating problems among sexual minority men, the present study examined relations among sociocultural and psychological correlates of eating disorder symptoms with a sample of 231 sexual minority men. Results of a path analysis supported tenets of objectification theory with the sample. Specifically, findi...