one of recent developments in modern societies is the evolution in the structure of power division in the family and changes in reciprocal actions between wife and husband. this research aims to study the factors affecting distribution of power in the family by using the theories of: social capital, valuable resources, and sociability of gender. the data has been collected through survey method...

In this study the structure of power in family and its effect on individual's social participation have been observed in the sample of overars old people of Shiraz with survey method. The frame work that used in this survey is a combined frame work. Thin theory used is Parsons social action theory and social participation is a social reaction. Individual's personality will be formed during aliz...

a decrease in natural resources and their non-uniform distribution can affect social relationships between residents ofwatersheds, creating conflict and shifting groupings. the present study used the network analysis method to test thehypothesis that change in hydrologic parameters and water shortages in the village of tutang has led to the new groupingsin the social cooperation network of the ...

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introduction: bipolar spectrum disorders include a variety of mood disorders from bipolar ii disorder to conditions characterized by hyperthymic mood states. it has been suggested that psychosocial factors also play an important role in bipolar disorders, in this study we have used social network analysis in order to better understand the social positions of those affected by bipolar spectrum d...

This article examines the basic social science concepts of "power" and "social exchange" in order to determine the possibility and desirability of integrating them. It is argued that: (1) all exchange relationships can be described in terms of conventional power concepts without twisting the common-sense notions that underlie such concepts; (2) most-but not necessarily all-power relationships c...

In this paper we introduce a method to measure the social importance of an agent in a multiagent system, using a directed graph representing dependencies among agents to achieve their goals, so-called dependence graphs pioneered by Castelfranchi, Conte and Sichman. Our measure is derived from van den Brink and Gilles’ β-measure to rank agents, using a directed graph representing an abstract dom...