While much conventional sociological research assesses statistical relationships among variables, my research has focused on elucidating social processes underlying those relationships. I have done so by developing formal theoretical models and methods of longitudinal data collection and analysis, as well as applying these theories and methods in research that investigates generative dynamics r...

The paper elaborates an endeavor on applying the algorithmic information-theoretic computational complexity to meta-social-sciences. It is motivated by the effort on seeking the impact of the well-known incompleteness theorem to the scientific methodology approaching social phenomena. The paper uses the binary string as the model of social phenomena to gain understanding on some problems faced ...

During the last 30 years sociologists Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss have formulated and developed in great detail their grounded theory perspective on social science research. In their work they have consistently argued for the inductive discovery of theory grounded in systematically analyzed data. Their inductive perspective has stemmed in part from their dissatisfaction with the prevalent ...

must not only show that it is present in excess in schizophrenics, and not in normals, but furthermore to elucidate concretely the mechanism involved. It is interesting to note that in the early chapters of this book on the genetic, biochemical, psychological, and sociological approaches, critical reviews are included. No such review is included in the psychodynamic-family dynamic theories of s...

The article provides a critical assessment of the more recent literature that relies on theoretical frameworks such as post modernism and globalization to deal with national identity, ethnicity and cultural mobility. Explaining sensitive and complicated issues such as identity requires the extensive use of the native historical, cultural and sociological sources related to the Iranian experienc...

The citizenship concepts emerging from particular attention and gets equality, justice, social theories and political and legal status as well. The problem of sociological study of Payamnoor University in South Khorasan is the citizenship and Anthony Giddens on reflexivity and lifestyle influence the status of citizenship has two elements in this paper and it discusses the reflection and its im...

The purpose of the study is to analyse an interdisciplinary research (IDR) project in order to identify what constitutes a strategy of integration of disciplinary insights. Through interviews, observations and analysis of scientific articles produced by the researchers, the study explores the processes of IDR and relates them to psychological and sociological theories of group research. The res...

must not only show that it is present in excess in schizophrenics, and not in normals, but furthermore to elucidate concretely the mechanism involved. It is interesting to note that in the early chapters of this book on the genetic, biochemical, psychological, and sociological approaches, critical reviews are included. No such review is included in the psychodynamic-family dynamic theories of s...

In the present paper I sketch three genres of sociology of knowledge and trace their roots to Marx and Marxist literature while reconstructing two causal and one hermeneutic strand in this context. While so doing the main focus is set on György Lukács and György Márkus and their interpretation of Marx’s contribution to sociologically minded theories of knowledge. As a conclusion I point out tha...

Social theories are usually developed to enable a clearer understanding of a situation or problem. The 'Social Model' is currently the dominant model for researching disability, addressing disability from within a socio-political framework which draws substantially on a ‘social constructionist’ perspective. This paper critiques some of the core sociological assumptions of the Social Model, ques...