regarding the undeniable role of women in the process of rural development on the one hand and their inappropriate situation in terms of the most indices of rural development on the other hands, rural women’s empowerment is essential. meanwhile, many researchers and scholars believe that social capital and its components play a key role. thus, the main purpose of this descriptive- correlative r...

Although the interchange between clinical and social psychological research has been fruitful in the study of cognition in marriage, it has recently waned. This article therefore illustrates the value of continued interplay between developments in the social cognition and marital literatures, focusing on the role of context in understanding marriage. Several studies show how construct accessibi...

After a general introduction to the construct "social networks," this article discusses the progressive transformation of the personal social network--family, friends and acquaintances, work and leisure relationships, et cetera--as individuals reach an advanced age. This is followed by a summary and discussion of a clinical consultation, with an emphasis on the reciprocal influence between indi...

The theory of Soft power can be applied to the ruling party of social governance. At present, the Chinese Communist Party is facing political corruption, the public lack of political trust in the officials, social injustice and other social issues. It is necessary to construct the party's soft power and consolidate the party's ruling position.

In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the game environment. To investigate this problem, we introduced a set of conversational agents into the social environment of Second Life, a massively multi-player online environment that allows users to construct and inhabit their own 3D world. Our agent...

Virtual communities are self-selecting groups of individuals engaged in sustained computer-mediated interactions around common interests or goals, governed by shared norms and values, and serving individual and shared needs. This work proposes and empirically tests the model of social influence on individual shopping preferences in the context of virtual communities. This work proposed and supp...

IS research into technology acceptance has concentrated on the use of technologies for enhancing work performance. Web technologies, however, can be used as the means to gain access to new knowledge, engage in entertainment activities and get involved in communities of interest. Firms have begun to recognize human needs for socialization and are adding forums and chat rooms to their websites. T...

This study examined to study how respondents rely on the Internet to fulfill the various life goals dimensioned into understanding, orientation and playing goals, and how this dependency relates to the generation of social capital. Further, it examined the resources of social capital in terms of bonding social capita and bridging social capital. In this study quantitative research approach was ...

Several barriers limit our attempts to untangle the social context of child maltreatment. One major barrier is our inability to agree on or effectively communicate what social isolation is. In an attempt to clarify this construct, the introductory section traces the evolution of the social isolation construct over the last three decades and concludes it is not one etiologic factor for child mal...