this article, being in the modern field of sociology of emotions, studies the leadership of emotions during the islamic revolution by imam khomeini. inspired by the views of flam, king, polletta, jaspers & goodwin, this paper examines the requirements of transformation of counter-mobilizing emotions to the mobilizing ones that lead to the active protest against status quo, through emotional lib...

Richard Saltman suggests that solidarity, a cherished notion at the heart of West European health care systems is being reconsidered in the light of today's austere economic conditions. Solidarity, he argues, has always been a flexible moral guideline, one that allows for policy responses, such as limitations on health benefits or increased out of pocket payments, that challenging fiscal condit...

In this paper we analyze the evolution of solidarity relations between dissimilar actors by means of a cellular automaton framework. We assume that actors face two types of decisions in the course of an iterated game. First, actors’ solidarity decisions constitute mutual support relations between neighbors. Second, by migrating in a two dimensional world, actors select between potential solidar...

the importance of zagros forests and interdependence of local communities to forest resources have led to complexity of its management. the role of local communities and investigating their relations toward implementation of natural resources co-management are undeniable. social network analysis (sna) approach is a new method which illustrates relations among local beneficiaries and has importa...

Social interaction is fundamental to the development of various aspects of "we-ness". Previous research has focused on the role the content of interaction plays in establishing feelings of unity, belongingness and shared reality (a cluster of variables referred to as solidarity here). The present paper is less concerned with content, but focuses on the form of social interaction. We propose tha...

this paper proposes a method for ranking decision making units (dmus) using some of the multiple criteria decision making / multiple attribute decision making          (mcdm /madm) techniques, namely, interval analytic hierarchy process (iahp)          and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (topsis).          since the efficiency score of unity is assigned to ...

Adolescence is a critical period at beginning to smoking and many factors have affect on the adolescents’ smoking behavior. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the adolescents’ smoking and their family environment. 615 adolescents took part in this study (girls= 283, boys=332). The ratio of the smokers that participated in the study is 13.00% (n=80), the ratio of the non-smo...