the aim of this study is to investigate the role and the place of women and men in vulgar tales in the 60 selected vulgar tales exploiting parsons’ role theory and the infra- analysis method.the case tales are among which are narrated by people older than 50 years old. this paper aims, first to review the cultural elements which are verbally transferred from generation to generation, and, secon...

BACKGROUND There is scarce information about European folk knowledge of wild invertebrate fauna. We have documented such folk knowledge in three regions, in Romania, Slovakia and Croatia. We provide a list of folk taxa, and discuss folk biological classification and nomenclature, salient features, uses, related proverbs and sayings, and conservation. METHODS We collected data among Hungarian-...

All of us are said to have a set of folk sciences: intuitive ways of understanding the world in areas such as biology, physical mechanics, and psychology. In addition, these folk sciences are thought to have deep and interesting similarities to the formal sciences. Both are usually described as having coherence and internal consistency, as well as specifying certain foundational or ontological ...

Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

This paper proves a new folk theorem for repeated games with private monitoring and communication, extending the idea of delayed communication in Compte [6] to the case where private signals are correlated. The sufficient condition for the folk theorem is generically satisfied with more than two players, even when other well-known conditions are not. The folk theorem also applies to some two-pl...

aghayed al nesa written by agha jamal khansari is one of the precious works pertaining to the folk literature. this book  is regarded as one of the important sources to know about women in the safavid period. not only this book reflects women’s beliefs and behavior but also the relation among women and others in the society. regardless of its conceptual importance, the book has a major structur...