The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...

Political participation is one of the important issues drawn to the special attention of various fields of social sciences and politics. Today, women as an effective group in participation and political participation especially have an important role in political decision-making. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine social factors affecting women's political participation i...

in this article despite of emphasis on the role of political cultural and religious factors to making political behavior and decision of society we try to explaining the relation between social and economical dissatisfaction and voting to political factions in iran.(in this article our concern is about voting to second khordad faction under the leadership of khatamy). in this theory we want to ...

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...

Undoubtedly, the expansion of participation and competition among social groups in political lifeis one of the major goals of political development. Meanwhile, given the significant changes taken place in the socio-political life of societies, the traditional tools affecting political participation have somewhat weakened. Today, social networking sites are consideredas one of the most important...

abstract: the objective of this paper is to measure and explain the relationship between facebook users’ social capital and their political participation in real world. following political changes in the world and in the middle east, there are growing interest among researchers to work on political participation and facebook usage. we therefore developed this interest into this research paper i...