"In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, …
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This handbook takes voluntary associations as the starting point for making sense of communities. It offers a new perspective on voluntary organizations and gives an integrated, yet diverse, theoretical understanding of this important aspect of community life.
How citizens and residents come together informally to act and solve problems has rarely been addressed. Little direct research or theory dealing with this subject exists, and correcting that deficit is the task of this book. The book builds a theory of local organizations by pr…
The investigation of social collapse, an integral component of social evolutionary trajectories, has been hampered by difficulties in setting appropriate spatial and temporal scales for the resolution of demographic and socioeconomic change. This dissertation takes a diachronic …
Identicide is the conscious intent to destroy the physical manifestations of a society in order to destroy cultural identity and to erase any signs of previous existence. When a community is affected by identicide, and significant cultural places and symbols are destroyed, there…
The present studies tested the generalizability of a Multidimensional Individual Difference Acculturation (MIDA) model that was developed and validated in Canada by Safdar, Lay, and Struthers (in press) with a sample of Iranian immigrants. Three studies were designed (1) to exam…
This study discusses status of women in contemporary Islamic societies. The approach adopted to develop the discussion is an analytical one. Because of the wide controversy over status of women in Muslim societies, particular and deliberate emphasis is given to the Islamic rules…
This dissertation investigates the reasons behind the support of political Islam in the eight Muslim societies. Three main arguments are tested at the individual level. The result shows that the explanations of religious attachment and premodernist predisposition are much more p…
