Resum Most often, both agents and human societies use norms to coordinate their on-going activities. Nevertheless, choosing the ?right? set of norms to regulate these societies constitutes an open problem. Firstly, intrinsic norm relationships may lead to inconsistencies in the chosen set of norms. Secondly, and more importantly, there is an increasing demand of including ethical considerations...

Increasing urbanization of rural landscapes has created new challenges for wildlife management. I n addition t o changes i n the physical landscape, urbanization has also produced changes i n the socio-cultural landscape. The greater distancing from direct interaction with wildlife i n urbanized societies has led t o the emergence of a culture whose meanings for wildlife are less grounded i n t...

Iran is the cradle of literature, culture and ethics. Paying attention to ethics has always been considered by sages as an important necessity. There were also some poets who had the sociological look upon the society, in addition to relying on moral and social issues. Saadi is one of those poets whose works has overtaken others. He illuminates and deals with the roots of social problems like a...

In his Heidelberg University lecture of 1992, the author uses an all-too prescient torture scenario to exam the function and putative indispensability of norms in modern society. In the exceptional case, recourse to the »normativity of norms« or to »values« proves to be untenable because all norms and values reveal themselves to be undecidable. Viewed from within the legal systems, the validity...

In this paper we explore how value-based practical reasoning relates to norms and their evolution. Starting from a basic model of a society and the norms that can arise from it, we consider how additional values, extended state descriptions and finer grained descriptions of actions, can lead to more complex norms, and a correspondingly more complex social order.

Globalization constitutes ideas, behavior and personality of people according to values and norms and affects different aspects of life of people (individually and socially). This research has been done in order to study the effect of globalization on moral values of the youth regarding sociology perspective. Statistical universe of this research includes 800 persons in Tehran. This research ha...

One of the most notable empirical regularities in political economy is the relationship between income per capita and democracy. Today, all OECD countries are democratic, while many of the nondemocracies are in the poor parts of the world, for example sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The positive cross-country relationship between income and democracy in the 1990s is depicted in Figure 1,...

For more than a century, Homo economicus has exclusively populated the theoretical world of economics. This model of the rationally selfinterested actor has also come to dominate substantial subfields of political science, sociology, law, and philosophy. However, many theorists doubt whether this model can explain most social phenomena unless it is supplemented with more socially sophisticated ...

Urbanization and rapid use of natural resources worldwide led to a massive increase in the solid waste produced daily. The processing is significantly lower than production. Sustainable requires collective efforts change general public mindset reduce effectively process waste. current work aims interpret intention behavior mitigate climatic issue management among Malaysian adults under value-be...