Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...

this article tries to familiarize the reader with those minor areas of sociology that have many capabilities for reading research issues by studying the historical movement and philosophical fields of shaping historical sociology. the article also explains the reasons of obsoleteness of this effective method of recognizing and defining the domination of quantitative strategies over sociology by...

objectives: the objective of this study is to evaluate the safety climate as an important part of macroergonomics domains and to determine the importance of each safety climate factor in an iranian company. methods: for data gathering, the researchers used macroergonomic organizational questionnaire survey (moqs) method. for conducting this method we applied safety climate questionnaire which h...

the concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. the growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individua...

first, it is argued that the rule of patterns, the natural consequences of matterialization of science,and the deliberate deviation of the western social sciences from theology are singled out as the factors which have led to the total ignorance of such subject as theology and sociology. similar cases happen in philosophy and science. due to the prevailing cultural atmospher in the west, such a...

mainstream sociology under positivism has sought to provide universal theory, in one hand, and the historiography has attempted to narrative description of events, in the other hand. pathological studies show that both are suffering from extremism; so that mainstream sociology have neglected to study of special affairs and historiography  has not been able to build and provide theoretical gener...

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...