scholars have long been interested in the role of population and its impact on the economy of various countries, hence the theories on the subject. while malthus’ population theory presents a very pessimistic view and is formulated in a context which does not correspond to the conditions of the modern world, it occupies the minds of a majority of economists. it is interesting to know, while mal...

R has established that social environments affect human health.1 Acknowledged social determinants of health — including racial or ethnic background, occupation, and the use of alcohol and tobacco2 — also influence the effectiveness of health care delivery.3 But other social factors, such as the ability to afford medications, access to transportation, available time, and competing priorities, ma...

IN recent years the study of the development of English society has shown a shift of emphasis away from political and even economic problems towards those of a social and demographic nature. This shift of interest means that there is now being written more academic history which is of direct concern to the medical historian than ever before. Unfortunately medical historians themselves often see...

The next two chapters are about social history. The basic argument is that if Darwin was right about natural history (and he was) then Marx was right about social history. They both use the same explanatory framework. Each theory is an analogue of the other. Chapter 10 is about how we can use an evolutionary framework to understand social and cultural changes. And chapter 11 is about the implic...

This article explores the production of naturalized temporality and its ideological effects by focusing on the semiotic process of indexical order. Linguistic practice is linked with the exercise of power not only by constructing intersubjective social reality in an ongoing communicative process, but also, and perhaps more powerfully, by constructing an historical narrative that logically unfol...

justice demonstrates in behavior of any person with another person and in government behavior with the people of the society. social justice is a kind of justice that expresses this concept in society. selecting the slogan of justice from modernity1 by marxism caused the social justice be the main idea in the governance of communist cities. the idea that it is different concept based of marxist...

Purpose – To contribute to the mapping of the social media discourse involving politicians and their followers during election campaigns, we examined Israeli politicians’ Aristotelian rhetoric on Facebook and its reception during the 2013 election campaign. D ow nl oa de d by U N IV E R SI T Y O F H A IF A A t 0 0: 49 3 0 M ar ch 2 01 5 (P T ) Design/methodology/approach – We examined the Arist...