Three kinds of selection are reviewed with primary focus on the relations between behavioral and cultural contingencies. Operant behavior is briefly examined with regard to cultural materialist theory. The functions of verbal behavior in infrastructural and superstructural practices are suggested. Discrepancies between rules promulgated in the superstructure and the requirements of the infrastr...

in this article , firstly a brief survey of iranian-british official political relations are considered . then , it would be studied cultural relations of two countries in the qajar era .role of the english in these relations are evaluated in sections . first , actors of the relations are noted i four groups in  cluding diplomats , military forces , tourists and other scholars and researchers ....

Cross-cultural comparisons of categorization often confound cultural factors with expertise. This paper reports four experiments on the conceptual behavior of Native American and majority-culture fish experts. The two groups live in the same general area and engage in essentially the same set of fishing-related behaviors. Nonetheless, cultural differences were consistently observed. Majority-cu...

Beginning from the argument that the sociology of educational knowledge remains a sociology without a theory of knowledge, this paper illustrates the signiŽcance of the structuring of knowledge for the development of intellectual Želds through a study of cultural studies in British higher education. The paper presents a means of bridging the divide between analyses of ‘relations to’ and ‘relati...

On the basis of integrating objectification theory research with research on body image and eating problems among sexual minority men, the present study examined relations among sociocultural and psychological correlates of eating disorder symptoms with a sample of 231 sexual minority men. Results of a path analysis supported tenets of objectification theory with the sample. Specifically, findi...

the effect of translation on political, economic and cultural relations is an undeniable issue. translation is one of the ways to convey information and knowledge all over the world. moreover, it is a way to establish relationships among nations with different languages. iran and armenia are two very close peoples that have had deep relations from antiquity and share a common culture, backgroun...