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The aim of this study was to investigate upgrading rural to urban areas and its effects on social development indicators the Sistan Region. A causal-comparative research method was used for this purpose. Research instrument was a pre- structured questionnaire. The research population consisted of 2,851 households from different districts of Sistan Region which a sample of 333 heads of households obtained through stratified random sampling technique. The validity of the questionnaire was verified using face validity procedure and its reliability was also calculated between 0.81 and 0.91 using Chronbach's Alpha Internal Consistency Coefficient. Moreover, some analysis techniques such as paired t- test, independent t- test and covariance were used to analyze data. The results showed that social development indicators have declined during the last five years in both rural and urban areas. Furthermore, there was no positive and significant relationship between upgrading rural to urban areas in one hand and promoting social development indicators in the other hand.

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The taste and fashion for Bourdieu is an obvious and simple thing in the nature of modern society, and can be understood by the social hierarchy of society. one of the most important factors in this research is that there are several factors in this research to be part of it in terms of globalization in the culture sphere. The aim of this study was to understand the relationship of cultural globalization and consumption tastes in the  thirty-year-old generation (the decades of 1350 to 1370 AD) in the city Shiraz. Data from the survey on 425 women and men gathered and analyzed have been exposed. The results show that cultural globalization has had a great influence on the consumption tastes of this generation; Among the variables of cultural globalization, individualism (32.6), ICT (6.5) and Reflexivity (2.8) significant relationship with the dependent variable respectively, Which together could explain about 42% of respondents' tastes; This number tells us that 42% of  respondents' tastes variations are affected by the variables of globalization.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the cultural attachment of the coastal wall project in Pol-e Dokhtar located in Lorestan in Iran. Considering the importance of historical and socio-cultural position of the city, the location of transportation and tourism routes, it is intended to identify the dimensions and components of the coastal wall cultural attachment model. This study applies a sequential mixed method. In the qualitative part, content analysis of related articles has been used. The statistical population in the quantitative part includes professors, experts and cultural management, of which 99 people have been included in the statistical sample by simple random sampling. The collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire with 38 items, and data analysis performed using Smart Pls3 software and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability for all variables are greater than 0.7 and convergent validity is greater than 0.5. Results show that the mentioned cultural attachment model has 7 dimensions. The Effect coefficients of which are: considering Iranian-Islamic identity (β=0.282), physical-mental security (β=0.251), natural attractiveness (β=0.216), expansion of social relations (β=0.163), use of national and indigenous symbols and signs (β=0.122), creativity in design (β=0.059) and justice in public access (β=0.043) which has appropriate validity and reliability.