The current debate on technological development and socio-economic change is characterized by an obvious contradiction. Some scholars argue that the economy in industrialized countries is undergoing a fundamental and very rapid transformation towards a knowledge-based economy, sometimes also referred to as the third industrial revolution (Castells, 2000). To explain the rapid and fundamental tr...

In the first half of the twentieth century, dramatic developments in physics came to be viewed as revolutionary, apparently requiring a complete overthrow of previous theories. British physicists were keen to promote quantum physics and relativity theory as exciting and new, but the rhetoric of revolution threatened science’s claim to stability and its prestigious connections with Isaac Newton....

this study examines votes, ideologies and goals of iran’s cultural-intellectual currents after the islamic revolution in order to describe their scale and type impacts on women rights in iran. in the first section, a theoretical explanation of the relationship between social currents and legal demands based on social realism approach along with viewpoints of scholars who believe in the correlat...

As an important focus of modern language education, intercultural language learning reflects greater awareness of the inseparability of language and culture and the need for providing the learners with materials concerning teaching intercultural communication to enhance learners’ intercultural competence in an increasingly multicultural world. Proper development of a learners’ understanding of ...

This paper aims at analyzing the premises that shape a model for an integrated approach to early childhood education and care and those that shape the integration of ECEC services within Education, considered here as two distinct movements. In previous study (Haddad, 2002), I defended the idea that wide world events such as the Cold War, the Western cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s an...

Beliefs about whether effort pays off govern some of the most fundamental choices individual make. This paper exploit the “lost generation” during China’s Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they are transmitted across generations, how they affect behaviors. During the Cultural Revolution, China’s college admission system based on entrance exams was suspende...

Intellectual and technological talents and skills are the driving force for scientific and industrial development, especially in our times characterized by a knowledgebased economy. Major events in society and related political decisions, however, can have a long-term effect on a country’s scientific well-being. Although the Cultural Revolution took place from 1966 to 1976, its aftermath can st...

Does the use of repression undermine authoritarian rulers’ legitimacy? I argue that state repression can make individuals internalize a strategy (trust or distrust) as a heuristic in situations where information acquisition is either costly or imperfect, so repression has a long-lasting negative effect on people’s trust of authoritarian rulers. I test this proposition by studying one of the mos...