The tendency toward beauty is natural and common among all human beings. However, today, the tendency toward beauty, as a social phenomenon, has reached the stage of vanity and showing off. Cosmetic surgery is one of the significant issues in the field of medicine and culture, and one of the topics studied in the field of sociology. This study aims to investigate the sociocultural factors affec...

By the end of eighteenth century, England witnessed a great event, that is, French revolution, but what is more important British revolution which was ideas. The Victorian age an ideas, strictness, developments, depression, aristocracy, doubt, taboo, morals, and many other conventions. These changes are detected in literary activities, discoveries science, history, religion, politics, customs, ...

In recent years, there has been increasing acknowledgment of the multidimensionality of narcissism and that different types of narcissism may relate differently to other domains of functioning. Similarly, aggression-a frequently discussed correlate of narcissism-is a heterogeneous construct. In this study, the relations of proactive and reactive aggression with overt and covert manifestations o...

This paper presents five studies on the development and validation of a scale of intellectual humility. This scale captures cognitive, affective, behavioral, and motivational components of the construct that have been identified by various philosophers in their conceptual analyses of intellectual humility. We find that intellectual humility has four core dimensions: Open-mindedness (versus Arro...

other approaches. The first of these is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content and a sense of v...

Zuckerkandl. Edited by J. Chalmers DaCosta, M.JJ. Pp. 395. London: The Rebman Publishing Co. (Ltd.) Philadelphia : W. B. Saunders. 1898. Intended as an elementary guide for students, this work, though written in a clear style and in most respects embodying the present knowledge of its subject, would have been more valuable if the description of some of the operations had been less scanty: its p...

We thank the Federal Ministry for Education and Research for generous funding. 1 " If it is not in the file, it does not exist. " Indian bureaucrat, quoted in Akhil Gupta, " Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence , and Poverty in India " " Squares, markets, roads, bridges, rivers: these are the critical points in the territory which police will mark out and control. " Pasquale Pasquino, " T...