The rich identity, originality and validity of the “Ancient Iranian Urbanism and Architecture”, always have been stimulating the urban designers and planners to have research about their valuable qualities and historical principles. Unlike the past, today’s Iranian cities have inefficient urban qualities; because they are inspired by the western urban designs, without paying attention to their ...

In Western Australia (WA), Religious Education (RE) is a mandated learning area within the compulsory years of Catholic school sector. RE advocated as curriculum subject, timetabled for and assessed alongside other subjects focussed on developing religious knowledge understanding. addition to lesson, faith development, or catechesis occurs through intersection faith-based activities in school. ...

A common claim in the literature on Information Systems’ implementation in the context of less developed economies or so-called “developing countries” is that the “Western” technology is at odds with the local cultural context, in particular it is believed to mismatch local rationality in the sense of the accepted ways of doing things. In this paper we investigate IS implementation in a company...

This study explores the reproduction of Islamophobia in selected non-Western online newspapers: Nigeria’s Punch and Vanguard Malaysia’s The Star New Straits Times. News articles (n = 599) focusing on Islam were collected using internet-based search content analyzed. Selected newspapers tended to reproduce through conflict frames, negative tone terms contexts, so non-Western, not only Western, n...

Anthropological studies and recent evidence from cross-cultural psychology suggest considerable variations in the way prosocial behavior is conceptualized and embedded in social interactions across cultures. Important questions are which aspects of different ecosocial contexts might explain these variations and how these aspects influence prosocial development throughout ontogeny. Here, buildin...

Countering linear acculturation theories, the adoption of Western European gender customs over time differs across migrant groups. This diversity implies that into support for equality is context dependent. However, little quantitative scholarship has identified what sort contexts strengthen or impede acculturation. article investigates one source context-dependent acculturation: exclusionary c...

Attitudes, theorized as behavioral guides, have long been a central focus of research in the social sciences. However, this theorizing reflects primarily Western philosophical views and empirical findings emphasizing the centrality of personal preferences. As a result, the prevalent psychological model of attitudes is a person-centric one. We suggest that incorporating research insights from no...

Abstract This article explores the strategic use of ‘fake news’ discourses in non-democratic contexts using a mixed-methods approach grounded social network analysis and discourse theory. In such as Russia Iran, where opposition generally does not have unrestricted access to political public sphere, media platforms serve influence discourses. Given prevalence fake news discourses, previous stud...