ABSTRACT This paper examines racial differences in farm succession planning using survey data from Tennessee farmers. While observed differences between White and Black farmers are small, decomposition and counterfactual analyses show that structural characteristics, particularly farm size, would predict higher succession planning among White farmers ...
Abdelaziz Lawani +2 more
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Social and Cultural Consequences of Religious Fundementalism in Afghanistan: From Reacting to Secularism to Reactionary Secularism [PDF]
The present article examines the social and cultural consequences of religious fundamentalism in Afghanistan. The main emphasis of the article is on the consequences of fundamentalism in the field of confrontation of the Afghan people with religion.
Salahedin Ghaderi, Tanwir Ahmad Ghasim
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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Sociological Explanation of the Impact of Power Structure in Family on Social Cynicism with Emphasis on the Moderating Role of Social Class (Case Study: Citizens Aged 18 years and Older in Isfahan) [PDF]
Introduction Cynicism encompasses a coherent set of beliefs and expectations regarding human behavior, forming a crucial aspect of an individual's overall outlook on human nature.
Zahra Tork Ladani +2 more
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Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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The Study of Women’s Subjectivity in Forming Discourse of the Islamic Revolution [PDF]
The present study aims to investigate how the women’s subjectivity in the formation of the Islamic revolution discourse based on Laclau and Mouffeʼs theory of discourse. A qualitative and heuristic research method is used.
shahnaz karimi +2 more
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The Effectiveness of Cultural-Artistic Programs as a Benefit in the Resilience of MS Patients (a Case Study of Baqiyatullah Khomeini Charitable Institution, Isfahan) [PDF]
Introduction and ProblemMS disease is one of the important challenges in the field of social health and sociology. Today, the city of Isfahan is facing a high prevalence of MS and related problems. Resilient solutions for this lifelong disease can reduce
Ali Ghanbari Barzian +2 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Positive ageing, neoliberalism and Australian sociology
NoAustralian sociology has wrestled with most of the big issues facing this society; however, when it comes to one of the most significant changes to face Australia in the next 30 years, it has suddenly lost its capacity to engage with the nexus ...
Asquith, Nicole +1 more
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