urban quality of life represents more than the private “living standards” and refers to all the elements of the conditions in which people live, that is, all their needs and requirements. in economic literature, urban quality of life is usually assessed through the standard revealed-preference approach, which defines a qol index as the monetary value of urban amenities. this paper proposes an i...

up to now, studies of mirza agha tabrizi's works (a pioneer of iranian drama) have been carried out from the perspective of the evolutionary history of drama in iran. but this paper explores the enlightening aspects of these texts about social life in iran before the constitutional revolution. furthermore, the present study discovers a potentially aesthetic revolution in these works. by ma...

The North East Medical Sociology Group is pleased to announce details of the next half day seminar to be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 26 March 2014 at Teesside University, Darlington Campus. There will be a keynote presentation by Professor Sarah Nettleton from the Department of Sociology at University of York. There will additionally be three presentations from local speakers, together w...

The following is a shortened version of a plenary lecture by Steven Brint presented at the inaugural meeting of the Portuguese Sociology of Education Society in Lisbon, January 23, 2009. You have asked me to speak about the current state of the sociology of education in the United States. The temptation is great in such an assignment to applaud the subdiscipline for following one’s own cherishe...