Abstract In this exploratory qualitative case study, in-depth interviews were held with seven highly gifted young adults (27–28 years). Thematic analyses of the revealed salient constellations meaning: an “internal motor”—a metaphor for internal strength, a strong drive to grow, learn and develop, driven by their curiosity, lack goodness fit (for school years up, until college years), feeling “...

Death brokering refers to the activities of medical authorities to render individual deaths culturally meaningful. Social scientists and others agree that mortality provokes existential ambiguity in modern life requiring cultural coping mechanisms. In contemporary Western societies, medical professionals have sequestered the dying in institutions, and have classified the causes of death to expl...

The present study was influenced by existential and gender aspects on young people’s everyday lives with the aim to shed light on the complexity of the phenomenon of risk-taking, the meaning and purpose of adolescent risk-taking in a traditional sense (e.g. smoking and drug using) and in noisy environments (e.g. discotheques and rock concerts). The intention was to identify possible new ways of...

this paper seeks to answer the question whether the constitutional revolution of 1905-1911 in iran was a democratic revolution or social revolution? this discussion has been explained from the view point of the political sociology, relying on the moore's theory. studies indicate that the constitutional revolution in all periods has had the features of democratic revolution for the followin...

This article presents a phenomenological analysis of interview material, in which 12 care professionals in elderly care reflect on the elderly's well-being within the frame of special housing accommodation. The perspective of the care professionals is of special interest. The findings show that the well-being is characterized as the elderly's feelings of being existentially touched. The well-be...

nowadays, because of the special and pivotal place of women in the family and nurturing future generations; problems and issues related to women has become one of the main concerns of thinkers and intellectuals. jalal al-e-ahmad (1302-1348 ahs) and mustafa lutfi al-manfaluti (1876-1924 ad) are two of the social reformers and contemporary writers in the field of persian and arabic literature. ea...