Ties and social bonds are considered as social capital and assets of the person and the person can be accessed at these links from the resources and support has great importance in sociology. The overall goal of this research was to study social networks and social ties of women and their husbands, living in Babol. Types of social networks(formal relationships, informal relationships) and the s...

Traditionally, bibliographic communication in the social sciences has been viewed in descriptive or taxonomic terms. It seems possible to construct an abstract theoretical scheme within which such formal or bibliographic communication may be seen in relation to informal information exchange. The communication system thus conceived comprehends both formal and informal dimensions of social scienc...

The article outlines the social network aiming to join participants, who are looking for partners in some social project rather than partners for simple chatting or for any other forms of informal communication. Standard semiformal language with formal syntax and informal unlimited vocabulary for the pragmatic description of the projects in such social network, is proposed. This language is ela...

This paper examines the dual welfare system in India and the role of corporations as providers of social protection. The aim is to ascertain who is driving and providing social security, education, and health to informal and formal sector workers and their families. It further attempts to illuminate why corporations are taking steps to address some of welfare needs of the greater population as ...

Executive control (EC) is related to mathematics performance in middle childhood. However, little is known regarding how EC and informal numeracy differentially support mathematics skill acquisition in preschoolers. A sample of preschoolers (115 girls, 113 boys), stratified by social risk, completed an EC task battery at 3 years, informal numeracy assessments at 3.75 and 4.5 years, and a broad ...

Social control is the generic term for all reactions through which people express their disapproval of someone who engages in a counternormative behavior or who holds a counternormative attitude. Sociological theorizing suggests that the likelihood of a naïve bystander exerting social control depends primarily on the degree of deviance of the counternormative behavior. The psychological literat...