background: knee osteoarthritis is one of the most common disabilities, which may lead to some limitations in physical activity. this study aimed to evaluation of grade one mobilization in improvement of physical function. methods: in this single blind clinical trial with a randomized sampling method, 30 patients of grade two or three, knee osteoarthritis were assigned into three groups: group ...

Social media is increasingly important for political and social activism in Mexico. In particular, Twitter has played a significant role in influencing government decision making and shaping the relationships between governments, citizens, politicians, and other stakeholders. Within the last few months, some commentators even argue that Mexican politics has a new influential actor: “I’m Number ...

Religious economies theory, which views religious organizations as akin to single-unit firms competing for adherents in local markets, has three shortcomings that we solve by reconceptualizing religious organizations and developing a new theory of religious mobilization. First, we treat religious organizations as multi-unit entities operating in interdependent markets in a national field. Secon...

In modern states, mobilization policy has been used to awaken people to new ideas such as national identity, industrial capitalism, and civic society. However, it has long been debated whether mobilization in new countries or in countries under reconstruction creates an integrated identity or results in fragmentation of various ethnic groups. Although the idea that identity is not immutable but...

My thesis pursues the development of a tool to empower designers and non-designers to better understand humor's function in design and to encourage the use of humor as a rhetorical device to undertake social problems. Humor research is a field that is largely based on linguistic studies, but because of its multidisciplinary stretch in the past decade has displayed a broad rhetorical influence; ...

Good metaphors may be essential to social science. By putting ``the polysemous properties of language in the foreground,'' they facilitate what Richard Harvey Brown calls the ``genre-stretching'' that drives innovation. The danger of a good metaphor, though, is that claims merely implied are subjected neither to theoretical speci¢cation nor empirical investigation. Evocation substitutes for exp...

From the Iranian green movement (2009) through London riots (2011) and recent anti-hijab protests in Iran, protest movements have been accompanied by considerable social media activity globally. Social users involved quick production distribution of audio-visuals online with hashtags, rumors, sometimes fabricated information. The impact these demonstrates that can potentially play an important ...

Social movements of every stripe have mobilized law in order to confront contemporary injustices and redetermine social experiences expectations. The multiple disciplinary literatures that track evaluate these strategies provide a rich picture legal political mobilization at different scales relative successes. This article draws together the shared concern for strategic litigation labour schol...

This article extends the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE) by considering the various ways in which relations of visibility to an audience can affect the public expression of identity-relevant norms (identity performance). It is suggested that social identity performance can fulfill two general functions: Affirming, conforming, or strengthening individual or group identiti...