sance of interest in the role of the social environment in causing schizophrenia and other psychoses (van Os, 2004). This resurgence is fuelled by both a recognition that biological accounts of aetiology are insufficient (Eisenberg, 2004) and the persistence of findings correlating schizophrenia with socio-environmental risk factors (e.g. Pedersen & Mortensen, 2001). Indeed, the sheer complexit...

One of the defining characteristics of schizophrenia is impaired social functioning. This was recognized a century ago in the earliest clinical descriptions of the disorder. Today, deterioration of social relations remains a hallmark of schizophrenia, with social isolation and withdrawal forming part of its clinical profile in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But what ...

Among risk factors for infectious diseases, social ones present a particular challenge due to the increasing importance of old and new infections on the one hand, and the complexity of social reality on the other. This is not a new phenomenon. Social risk factors for infectious diseases were a subject of much thought throughout, roughly, the early 19 century up to the First World War although r...

the study of design and formation of urban space focuses on interaction of human and environment. this is an attractive subject that considers as interdisciplinary debates. thinkers of urban studies pay attention to this matter empirically and theoretically in order to provide a desirable space for human being. this research is based on the theories of urban studies and urban sociology and so o...