Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Particular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of ‘distinction’ and inconspicuous ‘suburban landscapes of privilege’. However, there has been a dearth of work on ‘marginal’ middle-class neighbourhoods that are si...

This sociological simulation uses the ideas of semiotics and symbolic interactionism to demonstrate how an appropriately developed associative memory in the minds of individuals on the microlevel can self-organize into macrolevel dissipative structures of societies such as racial cultural/economic classes, status symbols and fads. The associative memory used is based on an extension of the IAC ...

The subject of this paper is the sport socialization of athletes with disabilities; the object is to contribute to research and praxis through a review of the relevant sociological literature on the subject. The majority of the research, which uses structural-functionalism, is seen as a set of pioneering attempts to generate reliable information. However, the resulting information is too simpli...

Neuroscience is viewed by a range of actors and institutions as a powerful means of creating new knowledge about our selves and societies. This article documents the shifts in expertise and identities potentially being propelled by neuroscientific research. It details the framing and effects of neuroscience within several social domains, including education and mental health, discussing some of...

Although, in theory, the underlying systems used to implement CSCW systems are isolated from the interfaces the users see, the difficulty of implementing complex coordinated systems has in the past prevented easy experimentation with different grain-sizes and regimes for coordination. Now, Web 2.0 technologies bring complex, coordinated systems closer to hand and promote social computing into a...

the sociological criticism was established by george lukach in the beginning of 20th century and then lucien goldmann and mikhail bakhtine have developed it. in sociological criticism the content impact is on form and social situation impact on content. so, if we study the work we can find the idea of the writer or poet and we can use it as a historical document. adi ibn zayd was in the court o...

the sociology of law is concerned with explaining the relationship between law and society and studying of the social organization of law (as an order or a system), the social interactions of legal practitioners and people in this area and the meaning that people actually give to sociolegal realities. among the founding fathers of sociology, max weber is one of the most famous thinkers that eve...

bourdieu’s sociological theory contains all the elements necessary to form a political theory. through reviewing the works of bourdieu attempts have been made in the present paper to discuss those elements and also to reconstruct a political theory by combining them in a theoretical framework. this is a new attempt and has not been yet accomplished. therefore, in the present paper attempts have...