A growing body of research and theorising explores the experience of groups who maintain ties to multiple nations. However, this research often overemphasises the fluidity and freedom available to migrants and neglects the differential access to networks available to co-nationals who vary in their class, ethnic, gender and affiliational characteristics. Drawing on fieldwork and in-depth intervi...

Social stratification, formation of various classes and appearance of various layers in the society is a fact resulting from social conditions of public life and a wide variety of material, economic and subsistence factors as well as political situation, religious beliefs and public customs and thoughts; also ethnic divisions play an essential and undeniable role in this field. Greed and coveto...

one of the main agreements among classical and contemporary sociologists is putting emphasis on the role and place of utilizing forms of capital in reconsidering identity limits and expansion of collective belongings. this article is based on conceptual framework (jenekins and bourdieu) and tries to study empirically the theory of the relationship between the amount of economic capital as well ...

today's world has been the world of media. today can hardly find a place that people are far and separated from the media and media effects. practices, knowledge, tastes, and many teachings of daily life of every human, somehow directly or indirectly will be affected by what the media has covered. this article attempts to focus on national media audience on one hand and satellite television net...

In this study, the impact of youth identity crisis is investigated on the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The research method is qualitative; the library method is used for data collection; and data analysis is carried out with descriptive-analytical method. The main research question is how does the identity crisis in youth affect the national security of the Islamic Republi...

Many frequent and severe air pollution incidents have emerged across the vast parts of China recently. The identification of factors and mapping social vulnerability has become extremely necessary for environmental management and sustainable development. However, studies associating social vulnerability with air pollution remain sparse. With reference to research achievements of social vulnerab...

The present study was aimed at examining concerns about the social effects of EFL learning, a challenging area of research which has not been discussed sufficiently. It tried to investigate the relationship between EFL learning and national identity. In addition, attempt was made to find a relationship between language motivation types and national identity. Furthermore, the role of two demogra...