modernity is a reality that formed in framework of the enlightenment movement and histo-cultural context of west european countries as an internal process. because of the disseminating nature of modernity, its waves spread across the non-western countries. this article focuses on the outcomes of imported modernity in intellectual level of the non-western countries. for analyzing this topic, rus...

This article is fruit of a survey of sources on the history of the Ministry of Health that are part of the Fiocruz collection held at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz's Department of Arquives and Documentation. The study spans the fifty years preceding Brazilian Law 1.920 (July 25, 1953), which placed health and education in separate ministries. It was during this period that the foundations which were to ...

At present, university students, as the "after 90" and a new generation of young intellectuals, are being paid generally attentions by mass media. Nevertheless, university students’ public images are on a decline as they have negative news appeared ceaselessly. Contemporary university students are becoming a group of people who are gazed at fixedly by the media. Moreover, the media keeps gazing...

Intellectual property (IP) is a hot issue now, just as land as property was 400 years ago with the beginning of capitalism. Does this mean that we are indeed in a new phase of modernity, in which knowledge is becoming a commodity? The international struggles over IP started, however, with very different stakeholders, like worlddominating governments and huge (mostly pharmaceutical) companies. W...

The role and position of minority group intellectuals in the social sciences has been the subject of some research and debate, but not, until recently, within the field of Deaf studies. In this article we will explore the role of the Deaf intellectual in their relations to the academic field and the Deaf community. We offer a critique of the prevailing theoretical framework of postmodernism and...

Purpose. The paper is aimed at identifying the ways of scientist’s influence on development modern society as compared to those intellectuals. Theoretical basis. socio-anthropological approach role scientists in post-industrial shows leading people science a social group present-day society. However, philosophical axiology reveals that today’s do not have appropriate status: neither state gover...

A major source of interoperability problems on the Semantic Web are the different vocabularies used in metadata descriptions. This paper argues that instead of solving interoperability problems we should focus more effort on avoiding the problems in the first place, in the spirit of Albert Einstein's quote "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them". For this purpose, coordinated coll...

Our world is in a state of crisis which tends to worsen. The Muslim intellectuals today make significant efforts to detect causes of the exceptionally difficult situation the Muslim world is in today for it is engaged in several severe conflicts. In order to overcome the crisis, it is necessary to reach, subjectively conscious and efficient, the full sense of the Qur'anic explications on God's ...

Psychocultural analysis stands as a signal accomplishment of the 1930s U.S. assimilation of European refugee-intellectuals. Scholars in the U.S. had been moving toward a kind of psychocultural analysis well in advance of the Great Migration--the U.S. was not an intellectual vacuum or wasteland--nevertheless, it was through their interdisciplinary collaboration, fueled by the specter of war, tha...

Film criticism has been carried out in the form of activities since its inception, which many outstanding intellectuals and artists have participated.Especially this respect, European can contrast with American intellectuals, who long held films contempt. “In Europe, fascinated by filmmaking beginning their media,” writes Tim Bewart Thomas Szobak.It is not surprising, therefore, that 1920s, thr...