today, mobile phone as one of manifestations of new communication technology plays an important role in human individual and social life and it is included an inseparable part in their daily relations so that we can claim that life is impossible without it for many of people or at least it doesn't have any desirability. the influence of mobile phone applications in life different matters, ...

Recently the recognition of the role, potential within, and analysis of networks has been increasing in business and academic areasl. Network analysis has also been applied widely in tourism, as numerous researchers are studying connections among elements of tourism, with the main focus on destinations, cooperation and the effi ciency of cooperation among players of destination management organ...

Erkki Kilpinen studied sociology, philosophy and semiotics at the University of Helsinki, where he currently works as University Researcher. He has published internationally in those fields and about the methodology of social sciences. His recent articles include 'Memetics: A Critique'

Methodology or Muse? Tehseen Noorani (bio) I am grateful to the authors for their comments, and opportunity respond. To clarify my approach, sought discuss centrality of ‘set setting’ at descriptive normative levels in Psychedelic Renaissance by focusing on language containment prevalent during ethnographic research. Inspired study material culture, took up certain questions that can be asked a...

Title of Document: MANAGING AN ACADEMIC CAREER IN SCIENCE: WHAT GENDER DIFFERENCES EXIST AND WHY? Gayle Patrice Richards, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Bart Landry Sociology Department The present study examines the career trajectories of academic scientists during the period from 1993 to 2001 to explore gender differences in mobility. Data from the National Science Foundati...

When I was an undergraduate at Duke University (Class of ‘52), there was no gerontology, much less any sociology of aging. When I got my doctorate at Columbia University in 1959, there were the beginnings of some gerontology, but still no sociology of aging. It was not until 1979 that there was enough sociology of aging to establish a Section on Aging and the Life Course at the American Sociolo...