this paper, through analyzing various scenes from randomly selected films, and of belief that the film subjects, if not complete reflections of social relations of humans, surely demonstrate sections of social reality, attempts to explicate the thoughts of scientists in sociolinguistics and sociology of language like labove, hymes, fishman,… , especially related to the features of social acts o...

many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. however, this belief is not without its own opponents. to many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. the ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

Nowadays, social networks became essential in information exchange between individuals. Indeed, as users of these networks, we can send messages to other people according to the links connecting us. Moreover, given the large volume of exchanged messages, detecting the true nature of the received message becomes a challenge. For this purpose, it is interesting to consider this new tendency with ...

An intelligent agent may receive information about its environment from several different sources. How should the agent merge these items of information into a single, consistent piece? Taking our lead from the contraction + expansion approach to belief revision, we envisage a two-stage approach to this problem. The first stage consists of weakening the individual pieces of information into a f...

It may seem odd to bring up the topic of religious belief in connection with sociology in any way other than to examine examples of specific norms advocated by particular religious traditions. But that is exactly what I intend to do here. My title should be taken in the broadest possible sense. It means to raise the question of how, in general, religious beliefs impact our concepts of social no...

This paper argues that it is not the prison rules and regulations alter behaviour of inmates but rather ideological justification their religious faith. The article draws upon social constructionist theory reality to underpin discussion data. Data was gathered through in-depth interviews distribution semi structured questionnaires. When analysed, data revealed although had right practice precep...

background: congruity of values in workplace has a determining effect on personal and organizational outcomes. on the other hand, nurses provide invaluable services during the difficult times of sickness. the aim of this research was thus to investigate the relationship between personal and professional values among nurses working in hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical science...