The present paper is an essay that aims at contributing to the debate on the social thinking architecture, a theoretical hierarchical model originally proposed by Rouquette that establishes relations between various symbolic formations. Other than addressing the main characteristics of social thinking and the architecture, a broad review of the role of its classical constructs is presented, i.e...

A pattern found in many marketing systems, “male breadwinning,” is contingent upon overlapping and shared ideologies, which influence the economic organization and thus the type and number of relationships in those systems. Implementing a mixed-methods research methodology, this article continues and extends previous work in macromarketing on the interplay of markets, ideology, socio-economic o...

We here address the problem of scale and orientation invariant object recognition, making use of a correspondence-based mechanism, in which the identity of an object represented by sensory signals is determined by matching it to a representation stored in memory. The sensory representation is in general affected by various transformations, notably scale and rotation, thus giving rise to the fun...

Abstract This article offers discourse analysis of young transgender people's interaction, in which they describe being rendered powerless through misgendering or misrepresentation. It argues that the collective responses to these moments enable them challenge ideologies underpinning their marginalisation, and recontextualise language used by others bodies. Stance-taking, production affect, con...

Why do people vary in their views of human nature and their visions of the good society? Why do many people categorize themselves as “liberal,” “conservative,” “libertarian,” “socialist,” and so on? Some researchers try to answer these questions by starting with people’s self-identifications and then moving “down,” examining traits (such as openness to experience) that underlie and predict endo...

This study examines the effects of two interethnic ideologies (assimilation and multiculturalism) on in-group favoritism and discrimination intention toward immigrants. Specifically, this study aims to test the concomitant impact of these two ideologies on intergroup biases in order to affirm whether these two paths are related to intergroup bias. Moreover, this study is designed to extend prev...

The traditional consideration of architectural history as a linear process, where one style successively replaces another, still dominates, but does not explain many phenomena. V.S. Goryunov substantiated fundamentally different, non-linear model the historical process in architecture on basis 19th – early 20th centuries. V. S. and M. P. Tubli proposed stylistic polyphony with introduction conc...

Introduction: What is a kibbutz? Description and its recent past No report of research on kibbutz population can be understood without at least a superficial knowledge of what a Kibbutz is. Yet, while an answer to this question was simpler in past years, it is much more complicated at present. In the past, all kibbutzim (plural in Hebrew of a Kibbutz) were very similar to each other in their go...