extended abstract 1. introduction conspicuous consumption, a kind of consumption that is mostly to satisfy social than basic economic needs, is known as an emerging social issue in contemporary sociology. sociologically, to the conspicuous consumer, such a public display of discretionary economic power is a means either of attaining or of maintaining a given social status. although forms of con...

This study investigates the impact of social and cultural factors on the patterning of western patterns in Isfahan city and presents some strategies to deal with it. The objectives of this study were: 1- Determining the effect of social and cultural factors on the patterning of Western models from the perspective of the children of martyrs and victims; 4) Determining the difference between the ...

Social acceptance of drinking involves social and cultural roles and has important implications for public health. Since extensive evidence indicates that alcohol possesses immunomodulatory properties, scientists have recently debated the influence of alcohol consumption on the immune response, particularly in countries where drinking in a social setting is a part of cultural identity. Experime...

this study tries to review the reasons for which young girls tend to perform beauty surgeries on their faces, within the framework of veblen’s “theory of the leisure class” and his “social models” such as fiscal ownership. the statistical society has been the girl students of the university of tehran selected through snow ball sampling and discourse analysis was applied to analyze the semi-stru...

By taking out letters from a word we get a subword. Both continuous sub-words (also called factors or simply subwords) and scattered subwords were extensively studied. In [4] the authors introduced Parikh matrices, structures that contain more information about the words than Parikh vectors, which tell us only the number of di $ffere\tau 1T$ letters building the word. $I_{l1}[5]$ the notion of ...

This paper describes a research project that we have recently completed on the social stratification of cultural consumption, and then aims to present our main findings and to bring out their implications for certain aspects of public policy in relation to the arts. Our research is relevant in particular to policy issues that arise in regard to access to, and participation in, cultural activiti...

for social and cultural condition of country using weakest and returned water in different uses especially in agricultural consumption is not public and also is faced social opposition. in this study, it is tried to investigate several products in different levels of consumption according to consumer’s views who reside in tehran by mean of willingness to use concept. data are collected in 2012 ...

Background: In an increasingly interconnected world, understanding the formation of transnational orientations is of great importance. Attitudes toward transnational intermarriage are telling of people’s view of the transnational world and their perceived social distance between countries and regions. Objective: The purpose of this research is to identify the holistic formations of Chinese peop...