Towards a sociology of diagnosis: reflections and opportunities.

Community-Based Learning: Practices, Challenges, and Reflections

This paper will highlight an innovate practice in teaching and learning by reflecting on two fourthyear sociology seminar classes that participated in a community-based learning project at York University. Fifty students collaborated in three to six person teams to work on a problem/issue identified by one of five not-for-profit organizations who work with and/or for women as victims, offenders...

Typology of Obese Patients’ Attitude to Life and Their Decision-Making Process for Bariatric Surgery

The present study aimed to perform the typology of obese people’s attitude to life and their decision-making for bariatric cosmetic surgery. The researcher selected an inductive approach to answer the questions of this study. Phenomenological method as the main method of the study with semi-structured interview technique helped the researcher collect data. The population included those who had ...

دموکراسی یا اقتدارگرایی: ناکامی سیاسی اخوان‌المسلمین

After a long term, the tyranny struck Egypt hopefully looked for promising achievements of the 2011 revolution.But that hope was short-lived and before the end of his legal term, the first civil president had been overthrown by Army and in the commotion pros and cons. Winning the majority of parliament and then first presidential election put the Muslim brotherhood leaders under the spotlight a...

Entrepreneurship as a legitimate field of knowledge.

Entrepreneurship as a research topic has been approached from disciplines such as economics, sociology or psychology. After justifying its study, we define the domain of the field, highlighting what has currently become its dominant paradigm, the process of the discovery, assessment and exploitation of opportunities. We then describe the main perspectives and offer an integrated conceptual fram...

Comparative study on Women’s Attitudes towards their Social Roles in Cities with High and Low Socio–Economic Development (A Case Study of Khuzestan Province, 2010)