The structuration theory originally provided by Anthony Giddens and the advance improvement of the theory has been trying to solve the dilemma came up in the epistemological aspects of the social sciences and humanity. Social scientists apparently have to choose whether they are too sociological or too psychological. Nonetheless, in the works of the classical sociologist, Emile Durkheim, this t...

parvin etesami is a poet who artistically used persian poetry in order to criticize the status quo of the society and express its deficiencies. her divan (collection of poems), which is her only heritage for us, is teeming with debates, allegories, sarcasms with social themes. this article deals with sociological investigation of the social and class discrimination from her point of view. in ad...

A previous computational model (Joordens & Besner, 1994) has suggested that during lexical access, ambiguous words tend toward a blend state; that is, network activations settle into an incorrect state that is a mixture of the multiple representations of the ambiguous item. It has been suggested that this blend state actually aids lexical decision (LD) for ambiguous items as the blend state cre...

Diffusion is a process by which information, viruses, ideas and new behavior spread over social networks. The traditional independent cascade model gives activated nodes a one-time chance to activate each of its neighboring nodes with some probability. This paper extends the traditional model to an iterative fashion. We propose a model called the iterative cascade model that allows activated no...

Helen Thomas depends heavily (and uncritically) on Bryan Turner's sociological theory of human sociocultural life (pages 12-17, 20-24, 28-30, 53, 62, 94, 166, 217) and Bourdieu's theory of habitus (pages 20, 51,56-8, 87, 117-18, 150, 165, 171, 206, 226). She thus shoulders the ontological burdens of Turner's and Bourdieu's work, and, she evidently approves of Sheets-Johnstone's phenomenological...

Throughout history, civilizations have served as the highest level of human progress, and just like countries, empires or societies, they always been prone to rise fall. As a result, attempts understand their dynamics, formation, decline significantly important for sociologists, politicians, anthropologists historians, both recently in past. One those was Islamic scholar Abdurrahman Ibn Khaldun...

Focusing on the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a summation of several epidemics coexisting in the same space and drawing on Brazilian epidemiological data, we argue that the epidemic there shows variations already described elsewhere, such as feminization, pauperization, juvenization and interiorization, as a result of the deep inequalities characteristic of Brazilian society. We then examine the contrib...