Cultural selection theory has been rejected by many social scientists. The objections against this theory are listed and commented. Some of the objections can be dismissed as expressions of preference for one perspective over another. Different perspectives lead scientists to make different kinds of discoveries, but all perspectives are valid, and no theory or perspective can cover all aspects ...

case study 18 to 29 years of kurdistan youths theoretical framework of this study is based on theories of rojek, stibens and bourdieu and studies the situation of leisure time among youths as one of the social groups influencing the dynamics of cultural, social and political deal. survey method and questionnaire have been used to collect data and analyzes has been made. the study population con...

Developments in traditional editorial theory and method that came into prominence 25 years ago have converged with more recent online IT resources to establish important, perhaps even breakthrough, approaches to the ways we pursue the scholarly investigation of cultural materials. Various online projects illustrate the widespread effort to create digital tools and environments for studying cult...

Criminology arrived in Peru by the late 1880s, and with it the promise of both scientific explanations of crime and effective policies of crime control. As in Europe, Peruvian criminologists also debated the relative importance of biological and social factors in explaining crime tendencies. This article reviews the adoption and early developments of positivist criminology in Peru. It shows tha...

Violence has dramatically increased in recent years. The statistics of social and cultural factors of the violence against women has turned into an acute social problem and this unnatural growth is a sign of different factors. If we want to reach a common and continuous solution there is a need for fundamental revisions through the political, social and cultural structures in order to pro...

Biology is the study of life. How our understanding of the nature and evolution of living systems is being enriched and extended through new discoveries about social learning and culture in human and nonhuman animals is the subject of the collection of articles we introduce here. Recent decades have revealed that social learning and the transmission of cultural traditions are much more widespre...

Fictional literature has experiencedan increasing and stunning growthof women writers in the past two decades. In terms of quality and quantity, theincrease was to the extent that nowadays women’s names are mentioned sometimeseven more than men’s amongthe distinguished writers ofcontemporary Iranianliterature. On the other hand, these authors have often chosen the novel astheir main literary fo...

Beyond the limited efficiency and economy goals of neoliberal health policy lies the promise of genuine health services reform. In maternity care in particular, recent policy developments have sought to make the management of birth more ‘women-centred and family-friendly’. Interprofessional collaboration and greater consumer participation in policy and decision-making are key means to achieve t...

Literary works are the carriers of many regulations, values, norms, beliefs, structures and existential, cultural, and social aspects of their time. Many of the social and cultural realities of past centuries embedded within the extant literary works of those centuries can be identified and followed through. The critical approach in discourse analysis of literary texts provides a more precise k...

the aim of this study is to investigate into the relationship between parents' cultural capital and their tendency toward gender discrimination. many analysts and social theorists believe that cultural capital is one of the main factors which determines the cultural, economic, political and social structure. in addition, in this study gender discrimination, is examined so we have used the ...