The rapid and continuous growth of social networking sites has led to the emergence of many communities of communicating groups. Many of these groups discuss ideological and political topics. It is not uncommon that the participants in such discussions split into two or more subgroups. The members of each subgroup share the same opinion toward the discussion topic and are more likely to agree w...

Economic and political globalisation are inevitably accompanied by a kind of ideological globalisation, a transnational ideology which legitimises them. In other words, an ideology to justify, on the one hand, the minimisation of the state’s role in the economy —which, in a market economy system implies a corresponding maximisation of the role of the market and private capital— and, on the othe...

For over the past sixty or more years, much of the leadership and organizational literature has continued to present largely similar arguments. These arguments have tended to suggest that all efforts made to elicit desired behaviors from people, represent leadership, to greater or lesser extents. This study provides a review and ideological analysis of the behavioral artifacts exhibited by Dani...

abstract theories of behavior consumer deal with human behaviors as a being with will and purpose, so they are based on specific assumptions about the human nature and fundamentals of decision making. these assumptions often have ideological roots in different value systems consequently they are different in various these systems. the aim of this paper is to investigate these assumptions in the...

august of 1941 coincided with the reza shah’s exile and opening of the cultural and political environment in iran. the tudeh party gained more power, albeit it owed its power to the presence of former soviet :union:s troops in iran during world war ii. after withdrawal of soviet troops from iran, members and supporters of the party wondered what would happen to the party and its members and sup...

Since its release, America’s Army (MOVES Institute 2002) has been quoted as a primary representation of how video games can function not only as a medium of pure entertainment, but also as a means of transport and reproduction of lifeworld elements and hegemonic culture (Dyer-Whiteford et al. 2007, 101; Galloway 2006, 76; Bogost 2007, 75-80). As Luhmann already establishes, the subject matter o...

In this article, the author focuses on the speculative literalism and typologism in current scholarship to construct a taken-for-granted view, taking issue especially with many points raised in the literature on the subject that have associated fertility rates in Albania more closely with the existence of patriarchal cultural traits. This leads the author to argue that the specific rationale fo...