this paper intends to evaluate cultural capital & social identity of different dimensions of cultural capital through self-description of people. then it may study any correlation of cultural capital with different indexes of social identity. cultural capital in accordance with the viewpoint of borodino has three dimensions including: conceptual dimension, real dimension and finalized dimen...

The experience of Iranian-Islamic cities represents the role of mosques on physical and socialorganization in urban neighborhoods. It appears that this role has been changed during the contemporary era. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of social and cultural contexts on the performance of local mosques. The main question of this research is: “What is the relationship between s...

in iran’s history, women have always had important role in political, social, and cultural areas. after the constitutionalism movements, this role was increased and certain women found positions in executive and legislative powers. after islamic revolution, the situation changed and an islamic approached took the place of the former secular one. under this new approach it is usually claimed tha...

Older minority Americans experience worse health outcomes than their white counterparts, exhibiting the need for social justice in all areas of their health care. Justice, fairness, and equity are crucial to minimizing conditions that adversely affect the health of individuals and communities. In this paper, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is used as an example of a health care disparity among elderly...

For Archer, everyday life is shaped, in part, by the interplay of social and cultural systems [2]. A Social System is an array of positions, occupied by persons, and a distribution of status (or ranking) over that array. A Cultural System is conceived as a collection of belief-informing propositions. A Socio-Cultural System is Archer’s abstraction from everyday life and is analyzable as the int...