today, women`s social health has become an important and critical issue. social health is the reflection of society`s conditions and it is derived from multiple social factors. intervention in these factors is beyond the medical profession and sociologists are required in this field. on the other hand, trust has become a vital topic in human communities in the present era. considering the effec...

in most of the literature, the presence of women in universities is associated with the issue of occupation. in clarifying and explaining this issue the theories of economists on human resources are, often, used. however this article focuses on other aspects of this phenomenon, and evaluates the social and cultural motives of girl’s entrance into universities. the main questions are that based ...

in the present decade approaches of cooperative learning have been studied from different viewpoints. reviewing these outlooks has led to presenting a paradigm taken into operation in the form of present research (a quasi-experiment). this field study was conducted on the 5th grade students of the seven education districts of the city of mashhad. a sample of 132 by random method were selected. ...

The tendency toward beauty is natural and common among all human beings. However, today, the tendency toward beauty, as a social phenomenon, has reached the stage of vanity and showing off. Cosmetic surgery is one of the significant issues in the field of medicine and culture, and one of the topics studied in the field of sociology. This study aims to investigate the sociocultural factors affec...

ABSTRACT This study measured responsiveness to the immediate environment on the basis of the social (vs. neutral) content of a person's free associations, in an effort to relate this responsiveness to field-dependence. The results lend support to the view that field-dependence is associated with social responsiveness in word association. Two aspects of social responsiveness in word associations...

Social media has become a staple of everyday life among over one billion people worldwide. A social networking presence has become a hallmark of vibrant and transparent communications. It has quickly become the preferred method of communication and information sharing. It offers the ability for various entities, especially residency programs, to create an attractive internet presence and "brand...

Fieldwork strategies are showing increasing concern about contributing something of value to the local community, where one has conducted research. This concern for payback has centered on countermanding the obvious, visible benefits to individual researchers, or a research team, than whatever contributions have gone to the community, which are likely to be much less visible. Alternatives to di...

INTRODUCTION Over a billion people are now users of Facebook1, the most popular social networking site today [2]. This astonishing statistic highlights growth and increasing importance of social media (SM), a term that embraces websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Unsurprisingly, SM has become a staple of daily life for ...

T paper offers a theory of communication visibility based on a field study of the implementation of a new enterprise social networking site in a large financial services organization. The emerging theory suggests that once invisible communication occurring between others in the organization becomes visible for third parties, those third parties could improve their metaknowledge (i.e., knowledge...

Recognizing activities in social occasions plays an important role of building human social networks. For example, the recognition of social interactions could be of great help to determine whether any two attendees have the same interests in an academic conference or a cocktail party. Among the various types of social interactions, chatting with others is a significant indicator. Furthermore, ...