Since the nineteen seventies, high- and low-income countries have undergone a pattern of transnational economic and cultural integration known as globalization. The weight of the available evidence suggests that the effects of globalization on labor markets have increased economic inequality and various forms of economic insecurity that negatively affect workers' health. Research on the relatio...

Based on the data provided by the cultural authorities in the past 20 years, about 40 million audiences of cinema in Iran have been fallen. In other words, Iranians, on average, are spending only 15 minutes in a year at cinemas. The main objective of this study was to investigate this fact hence Bourdieu's theory was utilized to study the effects of social, cultural and economic capitals on cin...

this article is aimed at finding out the reasons and causes of development of sino – iranian economic and commercial relations during 1979-1999. it is argued that despite different ideologies and political systems, beijing and tehran have managed to expand the bilateral relations successfully. this has been done through adopting pragmatic foreign policies by two countries.

Violence, including psychological violence, sometimes negatively characterizes cross-cultural relations in western societies, especially in those countries that have become the destination of substantial immigration flows in the last few decades and where the relationship with diversity affects many significant aspects of people’s lives. In these cases violence, which can also be labeled as rac...

In the last few years there has been a growing tendency on the part of some social sciences researchers to adopt a broad definition of diversity (including, for instance, not only cultural values, but also gender, age, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation) and to use this term as a synonym of “the other”, the non-ego. This fact has been particularly helpful both from an epistemological...

This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing human-environment issues that examines shifting, dialectical relationships between social and power relations, cultural beliefs and practices, and ecological processes to allow an interdisciplinary, complex assessment of social and environmental change in Nepal. The purpose of this analysis is to capture the complexity and non-static nat...

Zusammenfassung This chapter portrays the UAE’s particularities in terms of political, economic, cultural, and media systems are presented linked to public relations corporate diplomacy. By outlining features as well cultural characteristics discussing these context diplomacy, this provides a comprehensive contextualization thesis.