Much current work in the social sciences seeks to understand the effects of trust and social capital on economic and political outcomes. However, the sources of trust remain unclear. In this article, the authors articulate a basic theory of the relationship between institutions and trust. The authors apply this theory to industrial districts, geographically concentrated areas of small firm prod...

this paper explores cultural policy making during jack lang’s ministry (1988-1993, 1981-1986) with emphasis on factors which enabled the cultural ministry to achieve maturity and especially acceleration in modernization in accordance with previous attempts by former ministers such as andré malraux. the field of dram (theater, cinema) is undoubtedly an indicator of the following process by jack ...

In this paper, we deal with the complex relationship connecting inequality to innovation, and the ways through which public investment, in particular public participation to R&D initiatives, can affect it. We first stress that various different equilibria may exist in the inequality-innovation space. The positive relation that part of the economic theory often assumes to exist between (initiall...

due to its neighborhood with afghanestan and the subsequent problems of this country such as insecurity, weak economic conditions, and lack of proper border monitoring, khorasan razavi province has always been the inhabitat of numerous foreign nationals. legal and illegal entry of these people has created plenty of issues from different economic, social, and cultural aspects for the citizens of...

This article reviews the work of significant humanities and social science scholars for their thoughts and theories about advertising’s social and cultural consequences. In brief, they view advertising as intrusive and environmental and its effects as inescapable and profound. They see it as reinforcing materialism, cynicism, irrationality, selfishness, anxiety, social competitiveness, sexual p...

ture and social structure—going all the way back to the classic statements by Marx and Engels (1939) and Durkheim ([1933] 1997:215, 276)—aim at explaining the connection between these two domains by highlighting the ways in which patterns of social relations affect the composition and structure of cultural systems (Bearman 1993; Douglas 1978; Martin 2002). Some of the more ambitious projects, s...

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Appropriate spending of leisure time has an important  role in the formation of  youth personality. Different types of capital- social, cultural and economic- have implications for  social status of individual actor. Bourdieu  ’s analysis of leisure time is based on cultural capital. The main goals of this study are the examination of the relationships between leisure time activities, cultural ...

Learning with mobiles seems to have obvious advantages as an educational technology in what is often called the 'developing world' or the 'global South' and there is indeed currently a lot of activity and interest. This does however often seem to be informed by inappropriate theorising or by none at all. The purpose of this paper is to encourage the mobile learning research community to theoris...

The social division of welfare literature emphasises the extent to which occupational-pension provision is distributed on the basis of class and gender. As most previous commentators have at least implicitly recognised, however, a significant proportion of less advantaged people are covered. This paper argues that the patterns of access and their distributional consequences must be considered m...