Technologies and various media have affected social institutions such as family and causeshape changes in relationships within the family. One of the means of communication that are easilyand widely used in the household is Internet. With the entrance of media, especially the Internet tothe family, changes in personal, social, public and private relationships are occurred. The use ofsocial netw...

BACKGROUND Few studies have addressed the challenges associated with international students as they adapt to studying medicine in a new host country. Higher level institutions have increasing numbers of international students commencing programmes. This paper explores the experiences of a cohort of students in the early years of medical school in Ireland, where a considerable cohort are from an...

INTRODUCTION Among the functional neuroimaging studies on emotional face processing in schizophrenia, few have used paradigms with facial expressions of disgust. In this study, we investigated whether schizophrenia patients show less insula activation to macro-expressions (overt, clearly visible expressions) and micro-expressions (covert, very brief expressions) of disgust than healthy controls...

this study aims to have a sociological explanation of the different forms of participation among khalkhal citizens and the factors affecting it. in this study, the important issue is attention to dimensions of participation. the theoretical framework and model were presented by using the theory of talcott parsons, lipset, habermas, de tocqueville, lerner, and rostow. this research was a survey ...

“Three personal aspects of this work might be of interest: (1) it documents the often-praised interplay between teaching and research; (2) it was a successful example (rarer than one might think) of interdisciplinary collaboration; and (3) it illustrates how a work’s success can bring irritation as well as pride. “My concern for clarifying the meaning of alienation began when I taught a course ...

Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, through the portray of the ‘monster’ hints the uncanny defamiliarization of the familiar role of the society. It shows how the society if anybody does not suit its taste alienates that from itself. The monster’s hideous appearance is the reason of the society’s disliking it and so it is regarded with disgust and hatred. This results not only in the reader’s realiz...

this study entitled intellectuals and their relations to alienation: a comparative study of “ghada al-samman and ghazaleh alizadeh novels. the study includes ghada al-samman’s novels, namely: “beirut nightmares”, “the eve of billion”, as it discusses ghazaleh alizadeh’s novels, namely: “idriss house”. this comparative study uses the methods of the american school, which focus on common and unco...

Social work involves working with people in distress and difficulties, people who have perhaps been traumatised by abuse or other life experience, people who have encountered major loss, suffering and pain. In addition there can be immense feelings of alienation and disaffection rooted in social inequalities and the discrimination and oppression associated with them. It would therefore be extre...