The present study suggests, in contrast to community dissolution theories, that community is maintained through a dialogue between ideological commitment and cooperative action within a cultural framework. The research follows up on a classic rural community study series, that of Lowry Nelson's Mormon villages . Replicating Nelson's ethnographic methods, the author reevaluates the earlier findi...

This article highlights the positive relations between Jewish and Kurdish nations, maintained mainly by Kurdistani Jews until their displacement to Israel in mid-20th century. These have been transmitted through oral traditions, documented both communities travelers Kurdistan, validated several scholars who studied of region, Jewish-Kurdish relations. The dearth historical documentation societi...

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In this article I present a descriptive and qualitative analysis of the infrastructure of the global Zapatista solidarity network that has emerged since the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico in January 1994. Most studies dealing with this network have looked at it from the outside without specifying what it means to speak about a network with regard to global Zapatista solidarity. I address...

In this note the concept of solidarity value in cooperative game theory is discussed. The value proposed by Nowak & Radzik is analyzed in terms of shifts of c-diagrams. The value is shown to be equal to the Shapley value for a shifted game. A general approach to a theory of solidarity is developed in terms of ”keep” and ”give” vectors.

ôbjective: to examine the relationship between psychological well-being and social solidarity of apartment residents in shahrekord, ïran. methods: â sample of 200 apartment dwellers was selected randomly. fessler social solidarity ïnventory and general health questionnaire were used to gather data. results: üsing partial correlation test and having controlled the effect of age, sex and educatio...

traditional raw milk cheese is one of the most consuming cheeses in the world. kurdish cheese is a semi-firm, traditionally made in the east of iran. it is manufactured from raw sheep or cow milk and kept in goat’s skin bags during ripening period. as a result kurdish cheese is often more complex in different varieties of microorganisms, which whose organoleptic properties make it highly esteem...

In the war between Ottomans and Safavids Dynasty, two thirds of Kurdistan area was separated from Iran, and joined the Ottoman territories. The Ottoman empire was defeated in World War I and Kurdistan was divided among Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and a small part joined the Soviet Russia, i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Concerning the Kurdish governments which were established in Iran being led...