It is well appreciated that demographic trends threaten the integrity of continental European systems of social security. For France, these trends imply a long term financial crisis as well as a crisis of confidence in national economic and social institutions. The payment of social security entitlements is a recurrent and largely unresolved political issue; proposals for comprehensive reform a...

New communication technologies have created a global network that could erode national cultural boundaries and create a global consumer culture. Will US values eventually overwhelm peoples' sense of community and social solidarity? Because of proximity to the US, and a long history of exposure to US media, Canada provides an interesting foretaste. Current Canadian new media preferences may be i...

this article tries to study the relationship between “quality of work life” and “job satisfaction” among the employees of the area 3 local branches of bank melat in tehran. as far as the purpose is concerned, this study is an applicable research while from the research methodology point of view, it is descriptive survey. statistical population of the research covers of all the 670 employees of ...

Preface Never before have we witnessed a " silent revolution " of such significance for all sectors of society as the global phenomenon of population aging, which has a direct bearing on the meaning of generations, cohorts and intergenerational solidarity. Two key elements of this transformation stand out. First, there is a new architecture of society that entails social change, which challenge...