Explanation in Historical Sociology: Narrative, General Theory, and Historically Specific Theory

Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory

Elite Theory in Political Sociology

Elite theory‟s origins lie most clearly in the writings of Gaetano Mosca (18581941), Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), and Robert Michels (1876-1936). Mosca emphasized the ways in which tiny minorities out-organize and outwit large majorities, adding that “political classes” – Mosca‟s term for political elites – usually have “a certain material, intellectual, or even moral superiority” over those th...

Public Sociology and Democratic Theory

Sociology, as conceived by Comte, was to put an end to the anarchy of opinions characteristic of liberal democracy by replacing opinion with the truths of sociology, imposed through indoctrination. Later sociologists backed away from this, making sociology acceptable to liberal democracy by being politically neutral.The critics of this solution asked ‘whose side are we on?’ Burawoy provides a n...

superstring scatterng from dbranes and wess zumino terms in string theory

دو هدف را برای انجام این پایان نامه دنبال می کنیم . نشان می دهیم که بسط دامنه پراکندگی یک میدان راموند-راموند دو میدان پیمانه ای و یک میدان تاکیونی caat بسط سازگاری است که این نکته بیانگر آنست که بسط تاکیونها که بسط انرژی پایین نیست را یافته ایم و این بسط با بسط aatt,ctta,cta,cttt سازگار است با مقایسه با دامنه پراکندگی تعدادی از تصحیحات کنشهای tachyonic dbi, wess-zumino را می یابیم .

skopos theory and translating strategies of csis in translaed literary texts from english into persian

abstract translation has become a cultural act which plays a significant role in human life. with the emergence of functional translation theories, and skopos theory in particular, translation has been considered as a purposeful, interpersonal and intercultural activity which is produced for particular recipients and directed by a specific purpose. this purpose determines the translatio...