in this paper the sociological approach of janet wolff and john thompson is used to identify and interpret the relationship between the evolution of persian carpet and its social context. the social context includes socio-economic, ideologican and political conditions surronding this evolution. to study persian carpet from the pazric rug from its initiation to the present time, based on numorou...

different research and theoretical approaches have been adopted in the study of the space of music production. the space of production and consumption of culture in iran as a country in transition is diverse and heterogeneous. such a diversity and heterogeneity in itself causes problems for this space. the problem of this space, which in this research work has been defined as a small social spa...

We study lobbying with information in a setting where politicians are connected through a network describing information flows. There are two opposing lobby groups, who choose which politician to address. The decision depends on the ideological bias of politicians as well as the overall network structure. We show that there is an interplay between the strength of the network, as given by the in...

praying is a socio-religious action, either from “religious sociology” (religious looking on society) or” sociology of religion” (sociological looking on religion).this social and spiritual action has few features: it is an effective action, for its positive implication on prayer’s everyday life; it is a continued action, for it is current in all dimensions of prayer’s activities; and finally, ...

I use the normative theory of intentional omissions to argue that ordinary uses of ‘ s intentionally’ are systematically ambiguous. There are occasions where they might be used to attribute intentional omissions rather than intentional actions. One can thus explain a number of puzzles that have been taken to be puzzles about the concept of intentional action: the Knobe effect, the connection ...

This paper reports on the adoption and diffusion of information technology in three UK universities. The authors draw upon detailed longitudinal case study research of UK universities utilising an analytic framework drawing upon computerisation movements and technology action frame perspectives. The technology in question is captured within the term Managed Learning Environment. The ambitions f...