This paper looks at key elements of global culture that are driving a new paradigm shift in museums causing them to question their raison d’être, design and physical space, recognizing the need accommodate visitor interaction participation, reprioritize institutional outcomes goals reexamining priorities. As heritage sharing online spaces reaches across national, political, social boundaries on...

Research on the construction of lesbian and gay identity has represented this process as carrying considerable potential for intrapsychic and interpersonal stress and conflict. This process may be rendered even more psychologically challenging for those whose identities feature salient components that are not easily reconciled with a lesbian or gay identity. An example of this is the simultaneo...

An adequate understanding of the acculturation processes affecting immigrants and their descendants involves ascertaining the dynamic interplay between the way these individuals manage their multiple (and sometimes conflictual) cultural value systems and identifications and possible changes in their social networks. To fill this gap, the present research examines how key acculturation variables...

since iranian society is passing from the traditional identity to the modern identity, the present study, using social interpretivism, studies the challenges that youth deal with in everyday life in terms of identity. using the qualitative and the interview technique, we have tried to achieve a grounded theory.  based on theoretical sampling and the standard of theorical saturation, 28 young pe...