Socio-cultural transformation as a systemic phenomenon in cultural dynamics

Socio-Cultural and Behavioral Changes as an Impact of Transformation of Kitchen (A Study in Kelardasht Town in Iran)

Modernization as a process also affects the way a society thinks, its attitudes, beliefs, food, dress habits, and cultural patterns at the level of individuals, and as the individuals can be seen as units of the society. In this study, an attempt has been made to understand the consequences of modernization in the traditional housing pattern as reflected in the changes in Kitchen. For the prese...

Design as a Socio-cultural Cognitive System

Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Indian Classical Dance

Dance has been an integral part and ventricular parcel of my life since childhood. I began this endeavor at the tender age of three with Sri Kunhiraman and Srimathi Katherine Kunhiraman of Kalanjali Dances of India. They were a great source of encouragement as they were the only teachers who consented to accept me into their tutelage at a young age. They have indeed inspired me to great depths....

Higher Education Expansion in Iran and Socio-Cultural Transformation; Agency of Female students

The purpose of this study is to reflection the social agency of female students in the course of socio-cultural transformation in the society, was designed in the interpretiveism paradigm and qualitative approach using phenomenological method. The data collection tool was a deep, unstructured interview. Participants included 60 faculty members, Social activists, and female students from four pr...

2. Socio-cultural Factors

People’s control over their sexual lives and choices is in turn shaped by gender-related values and norms defining masculinity and femininity. These culturally-defined gender values and norms evolve through a process of socialization starting from an early stage of infancy. They determine and reinforce themselves through traditional practices such as wife sharing, widowhood related rituals, ear...