Globalization makes culture no more bound to a geographical area, race or religion as was previously considered in anthropology. With the advent of Web 2.0 it becomes appropriate to speak about the culture of online communities in general, without specific ties to country or nation. Most current approaches to the development of systems for online communities implement some pre-defined culture r...

While many themes have been explored in relation to religion online—ritual, identity construction, community—what happens to religious authority and power relationships within online environments is an area in need of more detailed investigation. In order to move discussions of authority from the broad or vague to the specific, this article argues for a more refined identification of the attrib...

Do people who work hard also tend to play hard? We tested this hypothesis using an online questionnaire-based study of a large volunteer sample of university undergraduate students. Participants responded to questions designed to detect variation in attraction to accomplishment/fame (or ‘work’) and attraction to leisure (or ‘play’). Additional questions were asked, for use in posthoc explorator...

There is currently a growing literature on the role that trust plays in encouraging consumers to engage in e-commerce transactions. Various models have been proposed which aim to identify both the antecedents and outcomes of trust displayed towards e-commerce web sites. Increased trust is generally shown to increase positive user attitude which in turn is linked to increased willingness to buy....

Little research has focused on the relationship between religion and climate change attitudes and behavior. Further, while there have been some studies examining the relationship between environmental attitudes and religion, most are focused on Christian denominations and secularism, and few have examined other religions such as Buddhism. Using an online survey of 1,927 Australians we examined ...

Largely because of an attempt at conciseness, but also be cause of the compactness of KeyKOS and the mutual re liance of the abstractions from which it is developed, certain words and phrases appear, of necessity, earlier in this publi cation than the principle discussions explaining them. The information in this publication is ordered with the intent that a reader will need to assume as lit...

this article  studyies political identity of dagestani people in the north caucasus. at the first, i have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with dagestanis. this theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...

As the online learning landscape expands and social media continue to be an important information source for many, it is ask how people evaluate experience sources of differently this compares across domains. Drawing on interviews with 45 adults in United States, we examine people’s attitudes experiences around differ science religion. We find that topic shapes different ways seeking knowledge ...

Religion is a social phenomenon. Society and, therefore, religion will continue to exist as long as human beings exist. This article explores this syllogism, by analysing two 19th-century social theories on the future of religion. Weber was not positive as to the future of religion and foresaw that religion would die out at the hands of rationality and modernisation. Durkheim predicted that rel...