The socioecology of social class

The socioecology of elephants: analysis of the processes creating multitiered social structures

In this paper, we investigate the formation and function of the multilevelled, fission–fusion social structure in a free-ranging African elephant, Loxodonta africana, population. We quantitatively identified the existence of four social tiers by using cluster analysis on individual association data. We assessed the effects of season and study period on social structuring and levels of cohesion ...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

on the relationship between cultural, social intelligences and literary translation ability of iranian translation students

با توجه سرعت روز افزون جهانی سازی نیاز به مهارتهای میان فرهنگی نیز افزایش یافته است. از سوی دیگر تعاملات اجتماعی و نیازهای فرهنگی منوط به ترجمه است. بدین ترتیب مطالعه ترجمه از دیدگاه اجتماعی ضروری به نظر می رسد. برای نیل به این هدف، در تحقیق حاضر به بررسی رابطه همبستگی بین دو هوش فرهنگی و اجتماعی با توانش ترجمه ادبی دانشجویان (سال سوم) مترجمی زبان انگلیسی پرداخته شده است. همچنین قابلیت پیش بینی...

Phylogenetic Analysis of the Socioecology of Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents

Social Media Writing and Social Class: A Correlational Analysis of Adolescent CMC and Social Background

In a large social media corpus (2.9 million tokens), we analyze Flemish adolescents’ non-standard writing practices and look for correlations with the teenagers’ social class. Three different aspects of adolescents’ social background are included: educational track, parental profession, and home language. Since the data reveal that these parameters are highly correlated, we combine them into on...