purpose: the present paper aims to relate self-efficacy as an important psychological construct to information literacy as an essential requisite of the information society.methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science.findings: self-efficacy could increase interest, efforts, enjoy, self-regulation and performance. it is consider...

Novel Janji is one the novels that tell story of journey a religious school child who looking for former student decades ago. The author describes children being able to search someone disappeared ago according their teacher’s instructions. This study uses literary sociological analysis approach. results show in novel contains five dimensions religiosity, namely dimension belief, ritual, experi...

The theoretical base of clinical sociology is analyzed through Pepper's root metaphor method. Practice is found to be framed by the analogy between society and a complex ecosystem. The resulting world hypothesis is identified as Ecologism, within which the four relatively adequate world hypotheses identified by Pepper (Formism, Mechanism, Contextualism and Organicism) take their place as comple...

Innovation, as a field of study within business, sociology, economics, and engineering, encompasses both the process of innovation within the firm as well as concurrent and subsequent diffusion of new or modified technology from the research and development domain of private and public organizations out to commercial and governmental markets and institutions. There is no standard definition of ...