In this article, through a comparative study between ILO fundamental Conventions and Chinese labor law, the writer points out several problems and shortcomings embodied in Chinese labor law. This article analyzes the status of Chinese trade unions and questions their ability to protect the interests of the Chinese working class. As for collective bargaining, the writer reviews the relevant Chin...

Today social network services like blogs, communities, and social networking sites dominate the web. As Web 2.0 has evolved this way, analyzing social networks has become a promising research issue. There have already been several researches on social network analysis based on users’ activities in social services. Most of them focus on the links among the users such as citation, trackback, and ...

SOCIAL psychologists warn us that communication between members of different subgroups in our culture is fraught with peril. Mindful of this peril, the writer presents in this paper a review of some research on the influence of af fective factors on classroom learning. A frame of reference is presented first. This is followed by a review of research on teacher-learner affective characteristics ...

The title of this essay is a proud comment made by a character in Ismail Kadare’s novel The Wedding. The character is a writer who is commenting on the efforts of the Albanian government to eliminate the tradition of under-age betrothals, that is, arranged marriages for girls. The works of Kadare, a prolific Albanian writer born in 1936, highlight many of the social and political problems of wo...

the purpose of this paper is to study the social aspects of nativization of using the internet by describing the manner of interaction of the users with the internet and the manner of application of the qualitative research method. to do so, the writer has first studied the characteristics of the information society, methods of using information and communication technology and the conceptual f...

sociologists have long been interested in the study of the relationships between members of families. also, in the last decades, sociologists and scholars in social and human sciences have shown an interest in the study of the effects of globalization on the micro and macro structures of societies. the aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between globalization and the division o...

in this article, the writer discusses the concept of modernity and its relationship with social movements, as is reflected in classical works on modernity as well as in the contemporary modern political and sociological thoughts. the purpose is not to present a quantitative analysis of the development of the concept of modernity, but to explain the relationship between modernity and political a...

In this work we present a method for selecting instances for a writer identification system underpinned on the dissimilarity representation and a holistic representation based on texture. The proposed method is based on a genetic algorithm that surpasses the limitations imposed by large training sets by selecting writers instead of instances. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, we ha...