this research is a comparative study of entrepreneurial characteristics of founders of non-governmental high school in tehran. the research population was the female and male’s founders of non-governmental high school in tehran (totally 507 persons). the sample was 213 people (90 women and 123 men) were selected by cluster sampling. the data were collected through questionnaire that measured tw...

Background.The analysis of past research shows that the study of mental illness was part of the agenda of the founders of the discipline of sociology. Additionally, the sociological study of mental illness changes to reflect the mark of historical periods such as premodernity, modernity and postmodernity.Aim.The aim of this study is to compare and contrast some modern sociological theories of m...

This paper discusses the social dimension of information quality in the context of knowledge management. For that purpose, the main epistemological concepts of Schutz, Berger and Luckmann, as the theoretical founders of a constructivist, interpretative sociology of knowledge, are introduced and operationalized. Within knowledge management theory the transformational process, which produces situ...

tic, and itself as committed to freedom. This is paradoxical, because sociology has emphasized social conditioning in much the same way that academic psychology used to believe in behaviourist conditioning. Just as Pavlov’s dogs were individually conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell, so sociologists have tended to teach that human beings are socially conditioned. One of the founders o...

The history of the investigation has gone through changes as new questions have raised inside the historical conception, until arriving to a progressive development of this. It was in the 16 th and 19 th centuries that the Scientific Revolution took place, which represents a stage of great discoveries. This event guided in a large scale to the vision of the world that is possessed now. Francis ...

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...

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...