social pathology, a new concept taken from biological science in the 19th century, is a science dealing with the study and analysis of social disorders. the objectives of this science are the identification of social injuries and their causes and methods of preventing them. lack of place sense (place belonging) and community sense in the citizens who have migrated to large cities create many so...

It is argued that the formation of disciplines in the social sciences—and sciences in general—is linked to ontological commitments. Thus the development of methodologies in the social sciences analyze and display specific dimensions of social reality. With the proliferation of problem-based social science and interdisciplinary knowledge spaces it is becoming increasingly important for researche...

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background: social capital involves a set of norms available in social systems which improves the interaction between people and reduces the costs of interactions and communications. considering the importance of social capital, this research is aimed to study the social capital and factors affecting it among students of tehran university of medical sciences. methods: 400 students were particip...

in his perspective “navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. this comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

This paper focuses on the relationship between children’s psychological lexicon and their development of social cognition as assessed through theory-of-mind and emotion understanding tasks. It provides a brief overview of the topic, describes our own previous data, and reports new findings with a larger sample. Participants in our latest study were 102 children of 3, 4 and 5 years of age, rando...