The Mysteries of Meaning Production in the Story of Sindbad Bahri Based on Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis by Zeinab Karami Poor, Elyas Nooraei, Khalil Beygzade

“…Investigating the changeable relationships of discourse acts in fiction literature with the approach of critical discourse analysis shows how fiction texts can contribute to the production and reproduction of cultural, political, and social structures. The story of One Thousand and One Nights, as one of the most prominent fiction texts of folk literature, is a text that is the result of this connection and contains special discourse acts that, due to the conditions of the time of its authoring, is coordinated in the Abbasid period. …”
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Living with Problems: A Critical Ethnography of Dumpster Diving in the Industrial City of Meybod by Alireza Zarei, Ali Ruhani, SeyedAlireza Afshani, Seyed Mohsen Mousavi

“…IntroductionUnbalanced industrial development and the lack of coordination of cultural, economic, and social structures in attracting the development criteria will lead to rapid developments in some structures and backwardness of other structures of society. …”
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Disability, normalcy, and the failures of the nation: a reading of selected fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga by Yorke, S

“…On the other hand, those fictions that narrate a sustainable disabled presence suggest the potential for the community or nation to emerge from oppressive social structures unscathed.</p> <p>I focus on applying literary disability scholarship to Indian novels which demand scrutiny through a disability studies lens, given their dependence upon the disabled body as a metaphoric object and the continuities in their disability representation and the representation of history. …”

Diagnostics of social self with younger schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities by T. I. Kuzmina

“…In children receiving differentiated and inclusive education, Self-social structurally and substantively differ little, with the exception of certain points due to the specifics of these forms of education and the organization of interaction of children in a “barrier-free” peer environment.Discussion and conclusions. …”
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Motherhood in Socio-cultural Context A Critical Qualitative Study by Faezeh Gafari Sirizi, Abbas Askari Nodoushan, Ali Ruhani

“…Result The results show that the role of motherhood is associated with challenges and limitations. Social structures and cultural norms impact the allocation of tasks and define expectations from the mothering role. …”
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Causal Layers of Social Dissatisfaction in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Mohsen Mohammadi Khanghahi, Abbas Keshavarz Shokri, Gafari Zahed

“…The discourse layer encompasses efforts to comprehend linguistic, cultural, and social structures that shape and pertain to the future. …”
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Associations of interleukin-6 with functional trajectories in older adults with cancer: Findings from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study by Kah Poh Loh, William Consagra, Allison Magnuson, Andrea Baran, Nikesha Gilmore, Smith Giri, Marissa LoCastro, Scott Isom, Michael B. Sohn, Grant R. Williams, Denise K. Houston, Barbara Nicklas, Stephen Kritchevsky, Heidi D. Klepin

“…Black and White participants experience different social structures, therefore we sought to understand whether these associations differ between Black and White participants. …”
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Interventions for Promoting Reintegration and Reducing Harmful Behaviour and Lifestyles in Street‐connected Children and Young People: A Systematic Review by Esther Coren, Rosa Hossain, Jordi Pardo Pardo, Mirella MS Veras, Kabita Chakraborty, Holly Harris, Anne J Martin

“…Whether or not they remain connected to their families of origin, and despite many strengths and resiliencies, they are vulnerable to a range of risks and are excluded from mainstream social structures and opportunities. OBJECTIVES To summarise the effectiveness of interventions for street‐connected children and young people that promote inclusion and reintegration and reduce harms. …”
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School-based interventions TO Prevent Dating and Relationship Violence and Gender-Based Violence: STOP-DRV-GBV systematic review by GJ Melendez-Torres, Noreen Orr, Caroline Farmer, Naomi Shaw, Annah Chollet, Andrew J Rizzo, Fraizer Kiff, Emma Rigby, Ann Hagell, Sidnei R Priolo Filho, Bruce Taylor, Honor Young, Chris Bonell, Vashti Berry

“…Preventing GBV may require normative and social structural change which may not be sufficiently triggered by current interventions. …”
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Discontinuation and tapering of prescribed opioids and risk of overdose among people on long-term opioid therapy for pain with and without opioid use disorder in British Columbia,... by Mary Clare Kennedy, Alexis Crabtree, Seonaid Nolan, Wing Yin Mok, Zishan Cui, Mei Chong, Amanda Slaunwhite, Lianping Ti

“…In marginal structural models with IPTW adjusted for a range of demographic, prescription, comorbidity, and social-structural exposures, discontinuing opioids (i.e., ≥7-day gap[s] in therapy) was associated with increased overdose risk among people without OUD (adjusted hazard ratio [AHR] = 1.44; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.12, 1.83; p = 0.004), people with OUD not receiving OAT (AHR = 3.18; 95% CI 1.87, 5.40; p < 0.001), and people with OUD receiving OAT (AHR = 2.52; 95% CI 1.68, 3.78; p < 0.001). …”
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Sociological Approach to War Novel (An Image of Minority Discourse): Case Study of Four War Novels by Amir Boozari, mohammad Taghavi, Mohammad Javad Mahdavi

“…It was not until the 20th century and the publication of the seminal works of critics such as Lukács, Goldman, Bakhtin, Lewenthal, Escarpit, and others that the connection of form, literary type, and esthetic considerations with social structures received special attention. To indicate the views of influential researchers and scholars specializing in the sociological criticism of the novel, we must begin with the Marxists and move on to Lucien Goldman as one of the most notable figures: Lucien Goldman: Developmental Approach in Sociology of Literature The main contribution of Lucien Goldman (1917-1970) to the field of sociology of literature is the introduction of dialectical materialism, that is, a complex method linking art and society to this field. …”
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The Global Financial Crisis and neighborhood decline by Merle Zwiers, Gideon Bolt, Maarten van Ham, Ronald van Kempen

“…Although these countries have very different political, economic, and social structures, research on neighborhood change in different contexts in the Global North has often led to broadly similar findings. …”
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Gender Analysis of Students' Attitudes Towards Active Women's Political Participation by Maryam Montazery, Afsaneh Tavassoli, Zahra Mirhosseini

“…A group of women consider social participation and presence in social and political arenas necessary and a group of women do not prioritize social participation and in line with their traditional status and context, they define preference around their family. Social structures create positive or negative attitudes toward participation in individuals and influence actors through the family institution, the educational institution, the social learning process, and the socialization process. …”
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The mediating role of knowledge management and organizational learning in the impact of human resource development activities on staff innovation (case of Shahid Bahonarkerman Univ... by Zahra Pourrshidi

“…In recent years, with the emergence of the knowledge-based economy, innovation has played a more vital role in the evolution of economic and social structures; that is, organizations with the innovation capacity will be able to respond to environmental challenges faster and better than non-innovative organizations, which in turn increases organizational performance (Singh, Gupta, Busso, Cambodia, 2019). …”
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Tlacoqualli in Monequi "The Center Good" by Ried Mackay

“…US laws privilege the Western conception of autonomy and the accompanying understanding of individualism.[17] However, these laws and frameworks do not sufficiently consider complex Indigenous nuances and communal social structures. While Indigenous patients, or their proxy, will be the one to sign off on a decision, the process still centers a Western understanding of individualism, autonomy, and body[18] that constrains Indigenous patients and often demands violation of their balanced “center good.” …”
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A Survey on the Level of Agricultural Development and its Effective Indicators in Hirmand

“…Regarding special conditions of agricultural activity in this region and also some basic features such as pragmatism, dependence upon the environmental capabilities and an all-directional trend in agriculture planning (Noori, 1379:10), the explanatory components of agricultural development have been analyzed in four administrative, social, structural and producing dimensions (Figure 1 and Table 1). …”
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Future scenarios. A cinematic perspective by François Penz

“…It is not only a hugely successful award-winning film, highly gripping and entertaining, but also a poignant exposure of Seoul’s social structures and inequalities – an excellent example of film as an agent, product and source of history (after Ferro). …”
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