The study of social relationships lies at the heart of the social sciences, but our understanding of the cognitive structures that support them has received little attention. This paper develops an account of the form and content of these structures, arguing that social relationships are represented by a small number of categories, rather than by dimensions as proposed by others. Taxometric ana...

introduction: social capital is multidimensional and it is about the value of social networks and relations between people. social capital refers to the relationships that forms the quality and quantity of the society’s social interactions. this study was designed to determine the relationship between social capital and faculty member’s job satisfaction in shiraz medical school. method: social ...

One of the crucial trends in business is to offer one-to-one personalized services. In this context, companies try to build customer relationship management systems based on the customer social relations and behavioral patterns. The key issue is predicting to which products or services a particular customer is likely to respond. Additionally, identifying peer-to-peer influence on social network...

In the digital era concepts such as social networks, blogs and forums have become integrated keywords in the marketing communication strategies of brands worldwide. The old ways of building an online presence, such as simple websites, have diminished most of their relevance in front of social media tools. The ease of establishing contacts with consumers made out of these new applications propit...

the study aims at investigating the relationship between social capital and national identity. based on giddens’ theory on identity and woolcock and narayan’s theory of social capital, the researchers, through a survey study, have investigated the relationship between social capital and national identity of 360 students of shiraz university. independent variables include demographic variables, ...

A. C. Weidman · J. L. Tracy Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada In this chapter, we provide an overview of measures and experimental methods available for assessing and manipulating social status. Numerous measures and manipulations have been used in the fairly vast literature on social status, so we focus our review on a diverse set of methodologies that...

In recent years, the Web has evolved into an exchange platform. Customer relationship management must follow this evolution and provide users with tools to integrate data from social networks in order to place companies at the heart of the exchanges. We propose in this paper a generic approach to community detection of customers of a company based on their explicit and implicit behavior, integr...

In this article, we obtain an improved Chen-Ricci inequality and completely classify Lagrangian submanifolds in quaternion space forms satisfying the equality. Our result is an affirmative answer to Problem 4.6 in [12].

according to studies, self-esteem plays an important role in mental health. self-esteem is also one of the most important correlates of anxiety, especially social anxiety. being anxiety in adolescents make negative impacts on their academic performance, mental health and social function. this study aims to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and mental health, according to the medi...