sociomusicology (sociology of music) as a branch of art sociology aims at identifying the relationships between music and social structures. the main question faced by the sociologists of music is how the conditions of a given social system affect the dominant music style of a culture or the subculture of a group and how the public tendencies for a specific music style affect a social system an...

Online peer-to-peer communities and online social networks have become increasingly popular. In particular, the recent boost of online peer-to-peer communities leads to exponential growth in sharing of user-contributed content which have brought profound changes to business and economic practices. Understanding the formation and sustainability of such peer-to-peer communities has important impl...

•Correspondence: Matthew Woolhouse, School of the Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; tel: 905 525 9140 ext. 23669, e-mail: [email protected] • Received: 25 August 2014; Revised: 11 March 2015; Accepted: 05 May 2015 • Available online: 10 May 2015 • doi: 10.4407/jims.2015.05.003 ARTICLE IN PRESS Please cite this article as: M. Woolhouse and J. Bansal, Work, rest and (press) play: ...

Previous field research has shown that individuals consumed more alcohol and at a faster rate in environments paired with loud music. Theoretically, this effect has been linked to approach/avoidance accounts of how music influences arousal and mood, but no work has tested this experimentally. In the present study, female participants (n = 45) consumed an alcoholic (4% alcohol-by-volume) beverag...

anomy is the one of the concepts common in the sociology. that can be felt equally the anomy to anomy in connection with that, as far apart as they can be imagined. the members of the felt anomy are not anomic society and vice versa. the purpose of this article, regardless of the presence or absence anomy, iran anomy study among sons and daughters students and the role of emotion in the music c...