this study attempts to identify and evaluate the factors affecting excessive buying that is of high interests theoretically and practically. at first some scales will be developed based on past researches and existing classifications to represent the logical and conceptual varieties in buying excessively. then, psychometric properties of the scales are tested by analyzing the factors confirming...

regarding to different social policies of two former presidents (hashemi rafsanjani & mohammad khaatami), the present essay is going to evaluate and compare the rate of social isolation consequences between the mass and elite groups in iran during 8 years of their presidency. at first, different dimensions of social isolation consequences have been reviewed and four main dimensions have been de...

Recent International Relations scholarship has emphasized the significance of ritual and emotion in international politics. Much less attention been paid to instances failure. Ritual failure refers occurrence deliberate mistakes, errors or sabotage contest sociocultural boundaries, hierarchies structures underlying rituals. In this article, I argue that is an transformer generates a sense commu...

Social rank theory suggests that mood variation is linked to the security a person feels in his/her social domain and the extent to which they are sensitive to involuntary subordination (e.g. feeling defeated and feeling inferior). Previous studies looking at rank-related and competitive behaviour have often focused on striving for dominance, whereas social rank theory has focused on striving t...

identity and collective memory is one of the fascinating subjects in modern sociology. in iran, it arose again as modern and government-nation discourse emerged, and has been endlessly discussed since then. such subjects have assumed an increasing importance due to the multi-cultural and multi-ethical existence of iranian society and recent global developments. accordingly, the present study ha...

Organizations such as universities collect and use personal data about customers such as students. How do students feel about their university’s practices related to error in data and access to personal data? Using data collected via a survey of 187 students at a large U.S. university, we investigate the effects of these two privacy and security concerns on students’ feeling of alienation. Impl...