one of the most important fields in international relations discipline is the study of international organizations. indeed, the rise of international and regional organizations in last decades causes a pervasive controversy among western scholars. but among iranian scholars, we don't have any theoretical works on international organizations. this article attempt to investigate internationa...

In recent years, sociological research on cosmopolitanism has begun to draw on Pierre Bourdieu to critically examine how cosmopolitanism is implicated in stratification on an increasingly global scale. In this paper, we examine the analytical potential of the Bourdieusian approach by exploring how education systems help to institutionalize cosmopolitanism as cultural capital whose access is ren...

A major problem with the emerging sociological literature on cosmopolitanism is that it has not adequately theorized mechanisms that mediate the presumed causal relationship between globalization and the development of cosmopolitan orientations. To solve this problem, I draw on Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory (ANT) to theorize the development of three key elements of cosmopolitanism: cultur...

In order to have a systematic theoretical education of Marxism among university students, help university students master the world outlook and methodology of Marxism, set up Marxism’s outlook on life and sense of worth, learn to use the world outlook and methodology of Marxism to observe and analyze problems and cultivate and improve university students’ capacity in applying Marxism theory to ...

With regard to the evolution of Marxist theories affecting the relationship between China and Taiwan historically and conceptually, this paper starts with the conceptual framing of the general evolution of Marxist theories—Marxism, neo-Marxist, and post-Marxism. Through dialectical and reconceptualized practice and learning the development of modern Taiwan in the evolutionary modes of Marxist t...

This article calls for a re-conceptualization of the social sciences by asking for a cosmopolitan turn. The intellectual undertaking of redefining cosmopolitanism is a trans-disciplinary one, which includes geography, anthropology, ethnology, international relations, international law, political philosophy and political theory, and now sociology and social theory. Methodological nationalism, wh...