In light of public sector reforms in Canada and elsewhere, this paper focuses on the shift of emphasis from social to private responsibilities and raises new questions about the forces of private enterprise and market-based partnerships. Under neoliberal governmental agendas, privatizing responsibility links to three main developments: the reconsideration of the relations of public and private;...

This special section of The Sociological Quarterly explores research on “surveillance as cultural practice,” which indicates an orientation to surveillance that views it as embedded within, brought about by, and generative of social practices in specific cultural contexts. Such an approach is more likely to include elements of popular culture, media, art, and narrative; it is also more likely t...

English is an important language in Hong Kong, an international city located on the southern coast of the People’s Republic of China that, for over 150 years to 1997, was a British colony. This paper describes and analyses changes in teaching methodologies in the English language curriculum formally proposed for Hong Kong junior secondary schools from 1975 to the present day, to study how the c...

in this article, political developments in iran after the islamic revolution has been studied to answer this question we describe and identify the nature of iran's political system and mechanisms of change in these political systems and we try to prove this hypothesis that political developments in iran in this period has been involved changes in government. this changes have affected by c...

the leisure is a new phenomenon has emerged of the industrial revolution and socio-economic developments of the current world. how the people of a society spend their leisure times could in a large extent show the cultural characteristics and lifestyle of the community. the most important aspects of the lifestyle which emerged of urban development and modernity, is the mode of spending the leis...

in view of the geopolitical statue of caucasus in the region and the world and domestic problems of caucasus region, we face different and sometimes contradictory forces and interests in the region. and political, economic, security, cultural, and… developments are result of interaction between these different and sometimes contradictory forces and interests.

in this study the relation between cultural development and social development in i an is studied with secondary analysis method. statistical data of this study is based on previous experimental researches, especially national survey of iranians cultural behaviors in 1378 and national surveys of iranians values and attitudes in 1379 and 1382. for measuring the cultural development, some element...

In Progress Description: This Article is the first to explore the interaction between cultural endeavors, social movements and law in the age of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, Facebook, and You Tube are increasingly used for socially organizing and mobilizing traditionally marginalized groups. Art, music and culture continue to play a critical role in connecting people, com...