Urbanization as a Social Process: Historical Analysis

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Embryonic development as a quasi-historical process.

This essay explores the nature of embryonic development in contrast to other kinds of processes. Anhistorical processes are highly reproducible and are therefore subject to standard scientific analysis. Such analyses yield results that may well apply universally. Euhistorical processes are non-reproducible. Therefore they are not subject to standard scientific analysis, but are investigated pri...

Optical Process and Analysis of Historical Documents

The collections of historical books are an important source of information, both for the history of previous periods and for the development of the cultural documentation itself. Although to date, there have been made several attempts of digitalization and electronic navigation, there is not an appropriate frame of optical process and analysis of the content of these collections, consequently a...

Self-Categorization as a Social Process by

using counterfactual analysis for providing historical explanations in social sciences

counterfactual analysis is concerned with explaining events that have not happened. counterfactuals are mental experiments through which one can reconstruct hypothetical versions of the history in one’s mind; these versions are relatively different from the real history, but provide one with the opportunity to test historical hypotheses against the available evidence. historicist researchers in...