social commerce, a new stream in e-commerce, enables hyper-informed consumers to support the businesses in new product development. hyper-informed consumers are the results of online communication provided by social media. these consumers have been empowered by web 2.0 technologies to have online communication, which drives value for the companies in new product development. trust is one the va...

Research on social learning in animals has revealed a rich variety of cases where animals--from caddis fly larvae to chimpanzees--acquire biologically important information by observing the actions of others. A great deal is known about the adaptive functions of social learning, but very little about the cognitive mechanisms that make it possible. Even in the case of imitation, a type of social...

all humans experience anxiety in your life and it is natural that people get anxious when facing stressful situations threatening, but severe and chronic anxiety in the absence of clear cause, is uncommon. studies show that anxiety in men and a young person are less privileged economic classes and in women, low-income people and the elderly and children and teenagers are more common. when locat...

the purpose of this research was identifying mechanisms for the development of human resources in khouzestan sugarcane agro industrial company, iran. this is an applied study and the research method was descriptive correlative. the population consisted of employees working in the sugarcane agro industrial company in the province of khuzestan, iran(n=315). one hundred and seventy five people wer...

Network Communities within Analytical Sociology One of the core issues (if not the core issue) in analytical sociology is the investigation of the micro-macro link in social phenomena (Hedström & Swedberg, 1998, Hedström, 2005). Analytical sociology endorses a social mechanism-based type of explanation according to which causal relationships between social phenomena at the macro-level are expla...