This paper tries to study the effective factors involving in social identity among high school students in Amol (Northern Iran) from three different viewpoints: Religion, family and national ones. This research is done by survey and questionnaire method. The sample were 372 Boys and girls. The findings show variables like self satisfaction, rationalization of affairs, and self-steastm influen...

This article reviews 14 multivariate theories of experimental substance use (e.g., alcohol and marijuana use) among adolescents, including those theories that emphasize (a) substance-specific cognitions, (b) social learning processes, (c) commitment to conventional values and attachment to families, and (d) intrapersonal processes. Important similarities and differences among these theories are...

This article describes both sociological and genetic theories of illness causation and derives propositions expected under each and under a transdisciplinary theoretical frame. The authors draw propositions from three theories -- fundamental causes, social stress processes, and social safety net theories -- and tailor hypotheses to the case of alcohol dependence. Analyses of a later wave of the...

The growth of the Web has required us to think about the design of information systems in which large-scale computational and social feedback effects are simultaneously at work. At the same time, the data generated by Web-scale systems--recording the ways in which millions of participants create content, link information, form groups and communicate with one another--have made it possible to ev...

The study of ethics is concerned with defining the rules governing social interaction. However, the first models of social interaction developed within Artificial Intelligence (AI) research were based on earlier theories concerning the structure and dynamics of conversation. This is not a unusual; conversation has long been held to be a paradigm case of social interaction and AI borrowed theori...

Given the pervasiveness of language in social life and the implications that language use can have for one’s individual and collective identities, attempts were made to explore the theoretical and empirical advantages in connecting social psychological theories of identity and sociolinguistics in order to explore language and identity among second generation British Asians. This paper features ...

The transfer of learning is arguably the most enduring goal education. history science reveals that although numerous theories have been transferred from natural sciences to socio-political realm, educational practitioners often deemed such transfers romantic and rhetorical. We conducted an experiment randomly assigned a sample 292 college freshmen in China two groups learn different thermodyna...

In studying the etiology of crime, criminological theories rest, to a large extent, on studies based on registered offenders from the lower social classes. Their living conditions have inspired criminologists to develop so-called social deprivation theories to explain crime. According to these theories factors such as bad housing conditions, inadequate education systems, poor job opportunities,...