one of the main agreements among classical and contemporary sociologists is putting emphasis on the role and place of utilizing forms of capital in reconsidering identity limits and expansion of collective belongings. this article is based on conceptual framework (jenekins and bourdieu) and tries to study empirically the theory of the relationship between the amount of economic capital as well ...

the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights contains no provisions concerning complaint procedure. the covenant’s emphasize on the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights had generated the idea that those categories of rights were, in principle, unjusticiable. the adoption of the draft optional protocol to the international covenant on economic, so...

this study is looking to understand the reasons behind cold relations of iran and republic of azerbaijan. the authors believe that iran and azerbaijan have not had friendly relationship in spite of many similarities including historical, cultural, ethnic and religious background. the hypothesis of this study is that there are six factors that cause the unfriendly relations. these factors are et...

The purpose of this study is to identify the role of sport as a soft power for Iranto facilitate its diplomatic relations after the nuclear deal. The research methodused in this study is mixed (qualitative and quantitative): in the qualitative part ofthe analysis, the study sample was selected via Snowball sampling based onpartricipants’ expertise in the sport diplomacy ...

Abstract The interrelatedness of Chinese economic and cultural reforms since the beginning of the new millennium, most particularly and importantly with regard to the acceptance and deployment of the concept of creative industries as an extension of China’s ‘soft power’, needs to be considered in light of two factors: firstly, and at a conceptual level, it derived from the development of the hi...

the present article tries to examine the factors of persian and arabic languages which impact each other while taking into consideration the cultural relations of the two nations and comparing similar stories such as zahak, kaveh-the ironsmith- and etc ...

Using the example of smallholder oil palm production in Papua New Guinea the paper illustrates how elements of a market economy and modernity become enmeshed and partly transformed by local place-based nonmarket practices. The persistence, even efflorescence, of indigenous gift exchange in tandem with greater participation in the market economy challenges conventional notions regarding the stru...