Ethnic traditions as a sociocultural phenomenon allowing to comprehend the national identity of peoples and universal norms in each culture which make a methodological basis for formation of moral beliefs of a personality are studied in the work. The model of formation of moral beliefs of seniors which has a systematic character is developed and carried out through the interconnected stages con...

This paper systematises knowledge of public participation by bringing together existing concepts and theories from planning literature to conceptualise the 3A 3 -framework participation. The framework presents as an emergent phenomenon, shaped dimensions: actors, arenas aims. Each these dimensions consists three interacting elements. highlights interdependencies between elements reflects them i...

BACKGROUND Loneliness is a universal phenomenon that influences one's health and health perception. GPs are confronted with lonely people quite often. Yet, what GPs think of this phenomenon and how they deal with emotions lonely patients evoke is not known. OBJECTIVE We aimed to explore GPs' experiences with lonely patients. We wanted to gain insight in GPs' feelings regarding consultations w...

A case study of black college students at a predominantly white liberal arts college is employed to question continuing assumptions in sociological research that blacks represent social, cultural, and economic homogeneity and that intraracial relations are close and without conflict. The article examines the extent to which black students feel close to other black students on campus, rely on on...

The purpose of this study is to reveal the causes and meanings silence in formal group settings academic organizations. To end, a deep comprehensive investigation was performed using phenomenological approach, which qualitative method, with 36 staff who had experienced within relevant structure. findings revealed that context produced by structural cultural characteristics organizations caused ...

Methodology is epistemology: the way of studying a phenomenon depends on the view of that phenomenon. In attempting to avoid anthropomorphism endowing or attributing human form and especially feelings and abilities to animals we have developed a particular mode of finding out which we term science. In this mode we feel it is appropriate to be 'objective' that is to remove our own feelings, thou...