This article reports of two studies addressing the meaning of primary and secondary control beliefs for transition to modernity and modern adoles­ cents. Study 1 participants (N = 365) were Malaysian (transition to mod­ ernity), and German and North American (modern) adolescents. Study 2 participants (N = 757) were Israeli Druze (transition to modernity) and Israeli Jewish (modern) adolescents....

the evolution of the family in the contemporary world has been one of the focal topics in thefamily sociology studies over past decades.the impact of modernity, especially from itscultural aspect, on the family development in the west that has led to the formation of themodern and post-modern family has beenpaid attention in recent theoretical and experimentalstudies.this research aimed to inve...

this article reviews the ancient symbolic world, shia and modernity believes in iranian’s mind which are historical link between ancient symbolic world and shie. since the late nineteenth century with the modernization, for exampel civilization, constitutional movement and palavi government, gap created in iranians mind. dispite this gap, iranians mind have symbolic characteristics and are not ...

This article offers the concept of ‘global modernity’ (in the singular) as a way to understand the contemporary world. It suggests that the concept helps overcome the teleology implicit in a term such as globalization, while it also recognizes global difference and conflict, which are as much characteristics of the contemporary world as tendencies toward unity and homogenization. These differen...

This paper claims that architecture is a contingent discipline, despite the fact that its contingency has long been denied through a retreat to Vitruvian writing. It is evident that contingency is rejected not only by architecture but also by modernity as a whole. Vitruvius attempted to cover the entire field of architecture in a systematic form in order to bring the whole body of this great di...

This essay examines President Nixon’s drug policy during the early 1970s, specifically the government’s reaction to heroin use by American soldiers in Vietnam. The official response, discursively (through the employment of the drugs-as-a-disease metaphor) and on the policy level, illustrated how issues of nationaland self-identity, othering, and modernity intersected in the formulation and impl...

the article includes two discourses: first discourse, discusses about modernity and two of its main foundations; rationalism and humanism, and then explanes their impacts on the formation of the modern world, society and human being. second discourse, considers the postmodern critical approach to modernity and its principles. postmodernism, totally rejects the modern reason and deconstructs all...