Social class ranks people on the social ladder of society, and in this research we examine how perceptions of economic standing shape the way that individuals evaluate the self. Given that reminders of one's own subordinate status in society are an indicator of how society values the self in comparison to others, we predicted that chronic lower perceptions of economic standing vis-à-vis others ...

throughout history, films have always been influenced by the social conditions of the societies in which they were made, often, representing the ideology of their middle class, probing their audience, and presenting new themes. hamoon is the name of a feature film made at the end of 1980s which won great acclaim. it was influenced by historical and social fabric of its time and was successful i...

the aim of this study was to show the interaction between the society, applicants and medical schools in terms of medical student selection. in this study, the trends to implement social factors in the selection process were highlighted. these social factors were explored through functionalism and conflict theories, each focusing on different categories of social factors. while functionalist th...

the aim of this article is to show social characteristics of modernist painters in iran. the main question is whether or not a stable pattern can be reached in order to show the effects of social factors on people to become artists. in order to find the answer, it is necessary to introduce social characteristics of iranian modernist painters. this article is theoretically related to the field o...

The flag of registry and classification society are an integral part of the target factors used by Port State Control authorities (PSC) when deciding on vessels to select for inspection. A shipowner may then have an interest in changing the flag of registry (flag-hopping) and classification society (class-hopping) to avoid future controls. Using data on PSCs collected over 6 years from 7,500 ve...

Many studies have shown that academic achievement is highly correlated with social class. Few, however, have attempted to explain exactly how the school helps to reinforce the class structure of the society. In this article Dr. Rist reports the results of an observational study of one class of ghetto children during their kindergarten, firstand second-grade years. He shows how the kindergarten ...

Let R be an hereditary Noetherian prime ring, let S be a "Dedekind closure" of R and let T be the category of finitely generated S-torsion R-modules. It is shown that for all i ~ 0, there is an exact sequence 0 -> Ki(T) -> Ki(R) -> Ki(S) ...... O. If i = 0, or R has finitely many idempotent ideals then this sequence splits. A notion of ''right ideal class group" is then introduced for hereditar...