The extent to which older and younger people do different activities when they are with others and when they are alone is examined in this article. I leverage interpersonal data in combination with information on activities from the American Time Use Survey to shed light on the long held finding that older people have less social contact than younger people. The results show that, net of interv...

Examining work as social practice offers a means of understanding relations between behaviour and the social world; or the mind in activity. Recent views have proposed that cognition is distributed (Hutchins 1991, Resnick, et al 1997) or stretched (Lave 1991) across the social partners and artifacts that comprise the social practice in which they act. Therefore, more than proposing social pract...

The psychologist and social scientist are aware of the complexities of phenomena in their own field and may look upon the metaphors and analogies of the cyberneticians with skepticism. The danger is that eventually some cybernetician goes astray and makes proposals which to the psychologist and social scientist are completely outrageous. The end point of the process may come when each field ret...

nowadays, women's participation in rural sustainable development is not considered as an optional issue, but a necessity. the societies downgrading the need for women's participation have faced failures, cuausing delay in sustainable development and the meeting of social security as well as social welfare. this applied research was aimed at clarifying the role of rural women's pa...

background: epileptic seizures would result in embarrassment in society and have some negative impact on the patients' social activities. the aim of this study was to show the perceived impact of epilepsy by patients on different aspect of their social activities including occupation, marriage and education. methods: we studied 179 epileptic patients aged 16 years and over using face to face in...

In this study, we investigate peer relationships and participation in social and recreational activities among 235 adolescents and adults with autism who live at home. The prevalence of having friendships, peer relationships, and participating in social and recreational activities were all low and comparable to previous research. Both individual and environmental factors were investigated as pr...

the relationship between motor skills and other aspects of personality, such as self-concept, social and emotional behavior, proposes the necessity of working on motor skills and activities. investigation of the social abilities seems beneficial for whom with the special needs. the current study investigated the influence of yoga rhythmic movements on social interactions of children with mental...