This article analyses the themes and conceptual-theoretical approaches of the social support in the literature from important international journals about social sciences and medicine, and in from 1983 to 2005 are analyzed. 259 international and 57 national abstracts was reading for the identification and computing the relations of the social support with health/disease/care. A deeper conceptua...

Powell consider the possibility of a micro-sociological supplement to the macro-sociological focus on structure, order, and persistence that has so far dominated research and theory in the new institutionalism. Searching for some answers, they analyze transformations in sociological theory since Parson's theory of action that offer alternatives to the Parsonian emphasis on norms and roles. They...

the concept of mathematical proof has been controversial for the past few decades. different philosophers have offered different theories about the nature of mathematical proof, among which theories presented by lakatos and hersh have had significant similarities and differences with each other. it seems that a comparison and critical review of these two theories will lead to a better understan...

■ Abstract Sociologists often model social processes as interactions among variables. We review an alternative approach that models social life as interactions among adaptive agents who influence one another in response to the influence they receive. These agent-based models (ABMs) show how simple and predictable local interactions can generate familiar but enigmatic global patterns, such as th...

in this project have been done in descriptive-analyze method, mid utilize from mythology-psychology by studying women characters in five plays. we are searching traits of “wild woman archetype” in secret defense drama. this archetype has been formed from theories of carel gustave yung, unregarded in literary and artistically studying in my country. important asking in this article is introducin...

Sociological theories on family formation and families and health suggest that married and cohabiting partners will resemble each other in health status, positively or negatively. The family is often seen as a health-enhancing agent for individuals. However, there are large health differences among families. This study aims to answer the question whether it is the case that the healthy live wit...