sor of Sociology in the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Sociology, as well as Director of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago. His current major interest is comparative health systems is explored in Health Care: Can There Be Equity? The United States, Sweden, and England. ABSTRACT: A review of the emerging literature on crossnational healt...

American Studies is an academic discipline whose object of study is the United States of America and everything associated with it, and American sociologists largely ignore it. American Studies largely ignores American sociology. What causes this mutual exclusion? An outline of the disciplinary history of American Studies and journal article citation data show that the relationship between soci...

This study aimed, firstly, to investigate the underlying components of Iranian cultural identity and, secondly, to confirm the aforementioned components via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. In order to achieve these goals, the researchers reviewed the extensive local and international literature on language, culture and identity. Based on the literature and consultations with a grou...

this article tries to familiarize the reader with those minor areas of sociology that have many capabilities for reading research issues by studying the historical movement and philosophical fields of shaping historical sociology. the article also explains the reasons of obsoleteness of this effective method of recognizing and defining the domination of quantitative strategies over sociology by...

In this work, we address the transposition of a fragment of the modeling of the Sociology of Organized Action to the fuzzy setting. We present two different ways of developing fuzzy models in this context, that depend on the kind of available data furnished by the user: one based on the extension principle and another using fuzzy rule-based inference with similarity relations. We illustrate our...