purchase and consumption are an inseparable part of man’s social actions and play a vital role in allocating resources for the production of various products, their distribution pattern as well as economic, political and social development. if this issue is to be seen from the perspective of consumer behavior, consumption patterns and purchasing are considered a cultural phenomenon to be explai...

The present article is a survey research that intends to explore the social factors affecting social identity. Statistical population consisted of over 551653 youth aged 15-29 living in the city of Esfahan. From among them, 384 persons were selected as sample of the study based on sampling formula using quota sampling method. Research hypotheses were formulated by referring to the theories give...

of the author and not the views of the Flemish Community. The Flemish Community cannot be held accountable for the potential use of the communicated views and data. 1 The discourse on the digital divide is characterised by an emphasis on the notion of (equal) access to specific types of media technologies. Populations are divided into information haves and information have-nots; policies are or...

Major health care problems such as patient dissatisfaction, inequity of access to care, and spiraling costs no longer seem amenable to traditional biomedical solutions. Concepts derived from anthropologic and cross-cultural research may provide an alternative framework for identifying issues that require resolution. A limited set of such concepts is described as illustrated, including a fundame...

as a part of leisure time schedule education of art public has been carried out by public & private organizations and cultural institutions. not only leisure art learning will increase artistic skills and the familiarity with artistic styles but also sharing artistic experiences will increase teamwork skills, cultural collaborations and finally self-confidence. therefore, engaging in education ...

Bourdieu and Darbel's classic study of European art museum audiences, The Love of Art (1991), remains one of the most influential academic studies of the social indices of art perception. Its findings were central to Bourdieu's on-going study of culture-mediated power relations, as found in the book Distinction (Bourdieu 1984), as well as social surveys of the behaviour of museum audiences acro...