Review Article
Studies in Humanities
Shima Sadat Ghasemi
Abstract
This article explores how social semiotic analysis promotes the field of critical discourse analysis and visual studies in EFL/ESL teaching materials, media, educational software packages, and also other language-related fields of study. At first glance, the article attempts to introduce social semiotics ...
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This article explores how social semiotic analysis promotes the field of critical discourse analysis and visual studies in EFL/ESL teaching materials, media, educational software packages, and also other language-related fields of study. At first glance, the article attempts to introduce social semiotics as a systematic methodology and discipline through summarizing theoretical backgrounds and methodological foundations. Secondly, it elaborates close relationships among the language, signs, and cultural values as meaning making resources and how these interrelated concepts are discussed in various studies in the past years. The article finally reviews a variety of studies done in this field and emphasizes that social semiotics is the key to highlight the hidden meanings usually imposed and dictated by higher institutions and cultural backgrounds. This article can be of potential help and use for those researchers who require a quick understanding of social semiotics and critical studies in language-related fields to conduct research in these areas.
Original Article
Studies in Humanities
Sedigheh Musaei
Abstract
This study investigated the psychological aspects of skin problems. Stress sometimes causes the recurrence of skin disease and sometimes it causes behavior that worsens the appearance of skin disease. For example, a person with facial acne due to stress manipulates his/ or her acne more or makes skin ...
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This study investigated the psychological aspects of skin problems. Stress sometimes causes the recurrence of skin disease and sometimes it causes behavior that worsens the appearance of skin disease. For example, a person with facial acne due to stress manipulates his/ or her acne more or makes skin lesions itch more, which causes the occurrence of boils and further expansion is difficult. As a result of stress, hormones such as cortisol are released in the body, which increases the secretion of fat or the recurrence of pimples on the face and body. The skin is the first defense barrier of the body and acts as a physical barrier as well as the first location of defense cells to fight against bacteria, viruses, and infectious agents. Stress can cause an increase in the number of defense cells and their inappropriate activation in the skin, and as a result, it causes autoimmune reactions such as skin sensitivity and psoriasis, and the recurrence of inflammatory skin diseases. Coin baldness that is an autoimmune disease is effective. Stress can reduce the skin's resistance to infections by destroying the skin's defense barrier. In addition, by destroying the protective layer of the skin, it can aggravate the loss of water from the skin and increase the penetration of irritants and sensitizers into the skin. Stress can reduce the growth, division and differentiation of new cells in the skin, as well as prevent proper blood supply to the skin.
Original Article
Studies in Humanities
Damavandi Afsoon
Abstract
In this new millennium, organizations across the globe still raise many issues of human relations. Some issues include racism, sexual orientation, workplace violence, interpersonal conflict, etc. Many of the scientific fields of interest to theorists have studied these problems. One of the most recent ...
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In this new millennium, organizations across the globe still raise many issues of human relations. Some issues include racism, sexual orientation, workplace violence, interpersonal conflict, etc. Many of the scientific fields of interest to theorists have studied these problems. One of the most recent organizational issues that has paid a lot of attention to attracted a lack of work or the same indignity and incivility at work. Civility at the workplace has been less noticeable investigating incivility, such a negative impact. The behavior of employees on the basis of efficiency, productivity, and productivity is reduced by time. Despite the increasing research, it has been shown that incivility is a problem in today's organizations. In this regard, 22 managers of public organization were interviewed as semi-structured method and analyzed in three stages of open, axial, and selective coding. This analysis led to the formation of 164 concepts, 17 categories, and 8 propositions that comprise the final model of research based on the Strauss and Corbin (1990) model of paradigm. The results indicate that organizational civility as a central issue and in interaction with cultural and value drivers (causal conditions), organizational support (interventional conditions), orbital planning (background or context), individual and organizational actions (strategies of action), and organizational productivity (outcomes). The interaction of these factors is shown in the final model of the research. In the end, based on this model, suggestions are given for processing the concept of organizational civility in public sector.
Original Article
Studies in Humanities
Seyed Amir Mir Hosseini Baghdashti
Abstract
Man is inherently a social being, since he turned to group life as a necessity to overcome the violence of nature, to do better, and to obtain greater satisfaction. Aristotle considers man to be a social animal by nature. Durkheim considers belonging to a group to be the cause of satisfaction and character ...
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Man is inherently a social being, since he turned to group life as a necessity to overcome the violence of nature, to do better, and to obtain greater satisfaction. Aristotle considers man to be a social animal by nature. Durkheim considers belonging to a group to be the cause of satisfaction and character development. Hobbes and John locke believe that group life solves life problems and happiness and progress. Group life gives people a sense of belonging, security, and worth. Man has always felt happy to be with those around him and his relatives, and he has forgotten his sorrows and worries in public. The support of family and friends in times of crisis also brings comfort. Mesmer, who was instrumental in the emergence and expansion of group therapy, believed in the mysterious power of animal magnetism in the human body and, for the first time, used indoctrination to treat the mentally ill as a group. The regular and codified history of group therapy, which has been proposed in the nineteenth century, can be studied in the early period from 1905-1932 and the development period from 1932 to the present day, which has been studied in this paper.
Review Article
Studies in Social Science
Hui-Hsin Huang
Abstract
Media multitasking is an increasing phenomenon in our daily lives and has accumulated considerable research in recent years. This article is based on dual motivational systems and motivation conflict theories to explore the best volume of media multitasking on its primary working efficiency and emotional ...
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Media multitasking is an increasing phenomenon in our daily lives and has accumulated considerable research in recent years. This article is based on dual motivational systems and motivation conflict theories to explore the best volume of media multitasking on its primary working efficiency and emotional gratification. A stochastic model of task performance and volumes by combining motivation conflict normal distribution model is proposed. The empirical data is conducted for parameters estimation and model calibration. Finally, the conclusion is useful and helpful for future applications.
