business," Sun remembered. "Shortly after the meeting, the old lady asked for a marriage proposal with her daughter through a match maker." On hearing that, Sun was a little shocked since he thought, "I could not marry her daughter because her family was rich. I was too poor to afford the brideprice." The daughter was also kind of reluctant to marry him because she said, "If I married him, I wo...

ôbjective: the goal of this study was achieving a better understanding of the bowen family systems theory, especially regarding the relationships between differentiation of self, quality of relationship with parents and health dimensions in a sample of ïranian college students. methods: â convenient sample of 210 students (102 female and 108 male) participated in the present study. they were se...

A sociological theory that is appropriate to the processes of globalization has as its testing ground the ability to capture the morphostasis/morphogenesis of relations, which includes the morphostasis/morphogenesis of structures, culture and agency. This is the task that defines what a relational sociology has to be. The morphogenesis of relations is not the result of the morphogenesis of its ...

Residential spatial differentiation, also called residential segregation, is a representation of the differentiation of social stratum in economic income, social status, education degree, lifestyle, and other aspects, based on an urban geographical space. In this paper, Xiamen Island is taken as example to calculate the dissimilarity index and the multi-group dissimilarity index at three scales...