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Dr Mostafa Zahirinia, Ms Zahra Valipour, Ms Parnian Sarafraz,
Volume 10, Issue 4 (4-2022)
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Social health is one of the most important dimensions of well-being and improving the quality of life in all societies. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the different aspects of social health, and examine the relationship between social health and one of the most basic variables, namely the sense of security. The theoretical framework of this research was based on the theories of Keyes, Mead, Buzan, and Weaver. This research is of a survey type, done by collecting required data using a questionnaire among the employees of the executive bodies of the government and public sector under the social security organization of Bandar Abbas city. The sample size of this research was 346 people who were selected by simple random sampling method. Data analysis was done using SPSS software and using tests such as T, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression coefficients. According to the findings of the research, the level of social health and also the level of feeling of social security of the respondents were at an average level; whereas the income of the respondents has a direct and significant relationship with their social health. Also, a significant relationship between social health and the feeling of social security among the employees of the executive bodies of Bandar Abbas city was shown; this means that the higher the level of social health, the greater the feeling of social security in people.
Dr. Taha Ashayeri, Ms. Elham Abbasi, Ms Tahereh Jahanparvar,
Volume 10, Issue 4 (4-2022)
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Social alienation means disgust, isolation, sense of lack of identity, cut off from society and finally the feeling of socio-cultural anomie in the modern society. The main purpose of this research is to study the factors affecting social alienation by meta-analysis method in the period of 1387 to 1401. The research method is Meta-Analysis (quantitative), its statistical population is 51 documents, of which 29 researches are a non-probability sample size from the Normex scientific database, Alamnet, Meg Iran, Jihad University database, with compliance with the entry criteria (validity and reliability) and the exit criteria ( lack of validity and reliability). The results show that between cultural capital (embodied, institutionalized and symbolic); social capital (weak social cohesion, low social trust and low social belonging); cultural factors (individualism, superstitions, normative pressures and low religious affiliation); media factors (use of virtual space, internal media and external media); psychological factors (low self-confidence, social isolation and sense of inferiority), Political factors (basis of political ineffectiveness, political dissatisfaction, feeling of political discrimination, political anomie) and factors of failure (social deprivation, job failure, educational failure), there is a significant relationship between social factors (social disorder, social dissatisfaction, social anomie, feeling of injustice), background factors (level of education, age, socio-economic base and income level) and the social alienation.
Elham Shirdel, Hossein Akbari, Seyed Ali Javadzadeh,
Volume 10, Issue 4 (4-2022)
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The outbreak of coronavirus has had negative consequences in various aspects of human health. Social health as one of the dimensions of human health plays an essential role in all areas of human life and its spread in society can lead to social development. Therefore the purpose of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting the social health of high school students in Zahedan during the outbreak of coronavirus. The theoretical framework of the present study is composed of the theories of Keys, Wales, functionalism, Bourdieu and Baudrillard. In this study, high school students in Zahedan were studied using survey and descriptive-analytical methods. Among the studied statistical population, according to Cochran's formula, 379 people were considered as a sample and based on a simple multi-stage cluster sampling method, a statistical sample with researcher-made and standardized questionnaires was studied. SPSS21 software was used for descriptive and inferential statistical tests. The results of the study show that social factors such as field of study, social support, religiosity, educational facilities have a direct and significant relationship with social health during the corona outbreak, while gender, educational background, ethnicity and mass media have no significant relationship to it.
Mrs Zahra Khodabakhshi, Dr Said Daii Karimzadeh,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (8-2022)
Abstract
The present study evaluates the economic and social factors in 15 MENA countries during 2010-2016. In this analysis, the canonical correlation method has been used to study the unemployment rate, inflation rate, GDP, internet speed, employment rate, literacy rate, crime, addiction rate, reproduction rate and life expectancy in Mena countries. The results show canonical correlation is significant between selected economic and social indicators in MENA countries in all canonical correlation functions. Special values for canonical functions are 3.33 and 0.1 for the Hotelling-Lawley Trace and the Wilks' Lambda tests, respectively. Also, the first canonical function fits 42%, the second 35% and the third 20% of the canon between economic and social indicators in Mena countries. The total fit of two first canonical functions is 77%. The equations of the standardized focal variables for economic and social indicators show in MENA countries, the higher the unemployment rate, the higher the rate of intentional crime. The increase in the unemployment rate is also affected by indicators such as the increase in inflation and the increase in the literacy rate.
Phd Foroozan Karkhaneh, Dr Hasan Reza Yosofvand, Dr Hossein Dehghan,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (8-2022)
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Social inequality includes the lack or lack of access of people in human society to equal economic, cultural, educational, health, ethnic, etc. situations and opportunities. Societies suffering from socio-economic inequality are always faced with threats and anomalies, they face social damages and public dissatisfaction in individual and social dimensions. Therefore, the sociological investigation of this phenomenon is essential and considered as the goal of the present research. The research method, in terms of the purpose of the type of applied research, and in terms of the nature of the qualitative research method, has interviewed 20 informants in the named provinces by the phenomenological method and the tool for collecting interview information is unstructured deep, participatory observation and field notes. The research findings show that social inequalities, on one hand, cause poverty and on the other hand, they are the origin of social conflicts and contradictions. Therefore, the most important consequence of social inequalities are the class gap, as the creation of a disturbance in the order and cohesion and social solidarity of a society, which results in a feeling of relative deprivation and a sense of social injustice in people. The themes resulting from the lived experience of socio-economic inequality, which were extracted among the people living in the western provinces of the country, indicate the existence of discrimination and social and economic inequality in these provinces, which the statistics also confirm slow economic inequality leads to a decrease in social participation at the community level. Social inequalities have deepened as a result of global expansion and influence, and with the increase of social inequalities, the phenomenon of underdevelopment has clearly revealed its undesirable side effects.
Mohammad Ghanbari, Mohammad Ajzae Shokuhi, Mohammad Rahim Rahnama, Omid Ali Kharazmi, Salman Al Hasan,
Volume 11, Issue 2 (10-2022)
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Livable cities are places for social life, the creation of beauty, the presence of all residents in the public space without pollution and traffic. Social principles and its values have a special position in livable city. The thresholds of social satisfaction and identity values are very important in livable city. The main goal of this research is analysis on Mashhad metropolis livability with emphasis on culture and social sustainability indicator. The research method of this research is practical in terms of goal, and is descriptive – analytical in terms of methodology. Based on the GIS Software, maps related to the status of each of objective sub-indicators according to the limits of Mashhad metropolis's zones were drawn. For mental indicator, including 15 questions, questionnaire have been applied for a sample size of 402 persons in all zones of Mashhad. The results of this research show the zone Samen (13) of Mashhad metropolis is the best zone in terms of culture and social sustainability indicator, followed by zones 8. By contrast, zones 2, 4 and 7 have the worst conditions in terms of culture and social sustainability indicators.
Dr Arman Heidari, Dr Sirous Ahmadi, Mrs Tahereh Momenimanesh,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (1-2023)
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The quantitative increase of the elderly and the ever-increasing consequences of aging have led to naming the first day of October every year as the International Day of the Elderly. The growth of the elderly population has many effects, and the health of the elderly in physical, mental, and social dimensions and the individual and social factors related to it are among the most important of these effects. In this regard, the present article has examined the relationship between the elderly's general health and the variables of self-care and social support in Yasouj city. The used method and the instrument to collect data are quantitative- survey and questionnaire respectively. The sample size is 259 individuals and the stratified random sampling proportional to the volume has been selected as the sampling method. Based on the results of the research, the average perceived health of the elderly in the dimensions of physical, mental and social health is higher than the average. The variables of Caring behavior and formal support are the most influential variables in the physical health dimension; the variables of informal support, formal support, caring behavior, women and the level of relationship with relatives are the most effective variables in the mental health dimension. The variables of informal support, caring behavior, formal support and the level of social relationship with relatives are the most influential variables in the dimension of social health of the elderly. Therefore, attention and differentiation of multiple dimensions of health and related variables are essential for doing scientific researches and social policy- makings.
Enayat Souri, Omid Ali Ahmadi, Mohammad Hosein Asadi,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (1-2023)
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This research examines the intergenerational social capital among men and women in Tuyserkan. The method is survey and the population includes men and women over 15 years old in 2020. According to Morgan and Karjesi, 392 people were selected by cluster sampling and have answered the researcher-made questionnaire. Validity by experts' agreement, formal, and structural methods are estimated 0.75, 0.76, and 0.84, respectively. Also, reliability by the internal consistency method is obtained 0.82. The data is analyzed by SPSS-26 software and with ANOVA and independent T-test. The results show there is difference among all three generations and between men and women in terms of social capital. The older generation has more social capital. There is relationship among intergenerational variables, gender, age groups, income, type of job, marital status, education, place of residence, age of marriage, presence in the community, and social capital variable. There are differences among different generations in terms of presence in society, individual and social freedoms, social trust, and social mobility. Also, there is difference between men and women in terms of variables of social mobility and presence in the community. Therefore, paying attention to the generation gap in the light of social capital is particularly important.
Mohsen Safarian, Ali Moradi,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (1-2023)
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This study examines the relationship between people's awareness of citizenship rights and their desire for social participation, with an emphasis on citizens over 21 years of age in Kermanshah. The method used in this research is quantitative approach and in terms of practical purpose, it is a description of the survey type. The studied population is the citizens over 21 years of age of Kermanshah city, which according to the extent of the statistical population; 400 people were selected using SPSS Sample Power software and studied by cluster random sampling method. The tool for collecting information from the respondents is a researcher-made questionnaire, which is obtained using construct validity. The reliability is obtained using Cronbach's alpha technique. The data has been later analyzed using SPSS statistical software. The results show that the social participation rate of the respondents is 149.77 and the citizenship rights average is 80.53, which is compared to the expected citizenship rights average of 99. The correlation results show that there is a significant relationship between the level of awareness of citizenship rights in the dimension of civil rights, political rights, socio-economic dimension and group cultural rights with the desire for social participation. The results of the regression equation also show that the citizenship rights variable explains 0.31 of the changes in the dependent variable.
Dr Ali Saei,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (1-2023)
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This study focuses on the cycle of authoritarianism in post-revolutionary Iran. The epistemic foundation of the pattern of authoritarianism dynamics in Iran is the democratization theory. This study claims that the democratization dynamics moves the Iranian society from the authoritarian regime to the democratic transition stage. In this process, the authoritarian regime collapses and the democratic transition period begins. In a very short time, the process of democratization in the transition zone gets stuck, and then gradually the historical trajectories move it toward authoritarianism. In response to the reproduction of the wave of authoritarianism, a revolutionary movement usually occurs. This movement leads to the collapse of the authoritarian regime. This study claims that a cyclical pattern has been prevalent in Iran during some historical periods. It means that Iran has experienced the democratization of the authoritarian system, but it has alternated back and forth between democratization and the authoritarian regime. The theoretical argument is that the cycle of authoritarianism is explained by a conjunctural causation. The causal conditions are the quality of political institutions and the agency of elites in power and social actors. Society moves towards authoritarianism if political institutions are exclusive and the agency of power elites is based on structural constraints on the opposition and social actors have structural limitations in their strategic choices. This study used a historical approach to the analysis of the authoritarianism cycle. The analysis resulted in the proposition that if the path of democratic reforms is closed, authoritarians choose the strategy of repression and radical actors choose the strategy of violence. In this case, the dynamics of authoritarianism will gradually lead to the stagnation of power, and then the force of radical actors will move the society toward the collapse of the ruling regime.
Sina Jalilpour Aghdam, Ahmad Mirza Kuchak Khoshnevis, Mehdi Khak Zand, 4- mostafa Masoudinejad,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (5-2023)
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Today, neglecting the social and environmental concepts in housing has caused constructions to be measured in the form of a quantitative relationship, that is, the quantitative and numerical relationship of humans economically with the physical dimensions of housing or the people living in it. Thus, considering social values and concepts such as justice in housing has been violated. Therefore, the current research, recognizes the sensitivity of the issue of housing and its role on people's perception of social justice, has found the necessity of payment in this field by relying on the relationship between three environmental, social and physical factors related to housing; with the aim of explaining the role of housing on people's perception of social justice in Tehran as case study. The applied research is a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. Data analysis is done with SPSS version 27 and Smart PLS version 3 software. Findings show that there is a significant relationship between all three environmental, social and physical factors (p<0.05). The direction of the relationship between all three factors is positive and the factors are correlated with each other and affect the citizens' perception of justice; in general, citizens do not consider the housing situation in Tehran fair.
Shamsi Pourabasi, Jafar Kordzanganeg, Mansoor Sharifi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (5-2023)
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Early marriage, which is known as a global problem, is still widely practiced in Khuzestan province and Ahvaz city. This qualitative study aims to discover and interpret the formation of early marriage from the point of view of married girls and has been conducted with a descriptive-interpretive phenomenological approach. The participants in the research have been selected by purposive sampling method and are interviewed in-depth using open-ended questions, and the information has been saturated with 22 participants. The data obtained after each interview has been analyzed with Smith's (1997) thematic model. Descriptive information obtained from the interview using the researcher's observations and notes and constant comparisons obtained 34 primary concepts, 11 sub-categories and 4 main categories. The findings show that four groups of contexts play a role in the formation of early marriage of women in Ahvaz city, which are: cultural contexts (belief in the effectiveness of early marriage, traditions of patriarchy and family marriage, and lifestyle in accordance with the conditions), social contexts (confirmation by marriage, expedient marriage and freedom from family problems), economic conditions (financial facilities for the marriage process,motivation to finance and freedom from financial problems) and personal factors (misconceptions about joint life and negligence and neglect of responsibilities) cohabitation). As a result of early marriage of women in Ahvaz city, it is mainly rooted in cultural and social contexts, then economic conditions and personal factors.
Taha Ashayeri, Mousa Saadati, Esmaeil Jahani Dolatabadi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (5-2023)
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Conflict is natural and a characteristic of all social organizations. In governmental and non-governmental organizations, they are always faced with the problem of differences between human resources (managers-employees) at the headquarters and line levels. This happens in cooperatives and companies for various reasons. Based on this, the leading research aims to investigate the sociological factors affecting the occurrence of our differences between the worker and the employer. The research method is quantitative (survey). The sample size is based on Cochran's formula and 384 people have been selected by random cluster sampling. Friedman's non-parametric test has been used to rank the indicators. Descriptive findings show that the average age of respondents is 38.57 years, 25% of respondents are female and 75% are male, 92.7% have insurance history and 7.3% are uninsured. The results of Friedman's test show that among the psychological factors (lack of motivation at work, stress on the part of the parties and being stressed while doing the job and being quick-tempered when problems arise), in the dimension of individual factors (lack of communication skills, lack of proper employee-employer interaction, excessive work procrastination), in terms of occupational factors (a large amount of work and little time to do it, constant abandonment of work by the worker and repetitive and monotonous work), in terms of economic factors (insufficient salary to solve personal and life problems, Lack of incentives and rewards commensurate with the performance of human resources, non-payment of benefits and bonuses on certain days), in the environmental factor dimension (lack of environmental order and discipline, not observing work safety, wet environment), in the organizational factor dimension (lack of work contract, settlements prematurely, short-term contracts), in the aspect of cultural factors (ignorance of religious duties, lack of attention to Islamic and social values), in the aspect of social factors (lack of feeling of group support, not observing social affairs, low trust between colleagues) in the occurrence of differences among the worker-employer has had the greatest role and influence.
Maryam Vahab, Mehrdad Navabakhsh, Soroush Fathi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (5-2023)
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In this study, we are looking for a sociological explanation of women's approach to body management and socio-cultural factors affecting it. The target group of this study is the women of districts 1 and 17 of Tehran. In the current research method, the quantitative-survey method is used based on this, with the multi-stage cluster sampling method, 384 people have been selected as the sample size from the population of two regions, 1 and 17, and the necessary information has been collected using the questionnaire technique. The findings show that demographic variables and social factors with variables such as (social interactions equal to 0.0911, socio-economic base equal to 0.189, consumerism equal to 0.126) and cultural factors with variables such as (group reference values (0.116) are related to body management. It seems necessary to redefine beauty and change the perspective and attitude and create a new approach in redefining body management.
Mr Mohammad Ali Amirpoorsaeed, Dr Mahmoud Sharepour, Dr Sedigheh Lotfi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (5-2023)
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The increase of social capital in long term has important effects on the mentality of the residents of the neighborhood, mutual trust, solidarity, participation in neighborhood affairs, etc., and when achieved, the quality of life in the neighborhood grows accordingly. In this regard, the present study, an attempt has been made to measure the amount of social capital and the level of quality of life among the residents of the neighborhoods of Rafsanjan city with a sociological approach and survey method, and finally to investigate the effect of social capital on their quality of life. In this research, all the residents aged 18 years and older are part of the statistical population, and according to Cochran's formula, 383 people have been selected by cluster sampling method proportional to the volume. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire, and the description and analysis of the data has been done using Spss software. The results of the research findings show that there is no significant difference between women and men in terms of the amount of social capital and quality of life, but there is a significant difference between income groups and the amount of social capital and their quality of life. Also, there is a significant difference between the different periods of people's residence and the amount of social capital and their quality of life. The results of multiple regression analysis show there is a correlation of 0.508 between research variables. Also, about 25% of the dependent variable changes are predicted by the social capital variable, and among the components of social capital, trust has the greatest impact on the quality of life of city residents.
Mr Alireza Moradi, Ms Sana Nourimoghadam,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (11-2023)
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Today, one of the most common public health problems around the world is "domestic violence", which includes child abuse, spousal abuse, and mistreatment of the elderly. The purpose of this research is to identify the factors affecting the incidence of domestic violence. This research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of its nature, is in the category of analytical research; its qualitative research method is of the content analysis type. The data collection tool is a semi-structured interview, reference to documents, and the sampling method is a targeted method. The target population of this research includes the scientific and operational elites of the South Khorasan Police Command, including the board of directors, specialized police commanders, general operational managers and scientific professors, and all spouses of families who go to police station counseling centers due to family violence. The number of participants includes 27 scientific and operational elites of Birjand and spouses affected by domestic violence (due to reaching theoretical saturation). According to the obtained results and the analyzes made from the open, central and selective codings, the factors affecting in the incidence of domestic violence include economic, social and cultural dimensions. According to the investigations and the results of the present research, the need for the attention of the relevant authorities and the education of families and individuals to learn about the psychological and social consequences of violent behavior is more important than ever.
Dr Malihe Amani, Dr Mohammad Esmaeil Riahi,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (11-2023)
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The change in lifestyle is affected by modernity and increased awareness which has caused the increased tendency of women to be present in public and urban spaces. Using a qualitative method and a phenomenological strategy, this study sought to investigate women's socio-cultural problems and limitations in urban spaces of Tehran. The sample consists of 35 women between 20 and 67 years old living in Tehran in 2021 who were interviewed by visiting several crowded points in the north, south, east and west of Tehran. Purposive sampling with maximum dispersion has been applied. According to the results, the social-cultural problems and limitations of women in connection with urban spaces in Tehran are the feeling of insecurity in urban spaces, the appearance of poverty and lack of vitality in urban spaces, the non-recognition and acceptance of women in the public spaces of the city, people-oriented spaces , the objectification of women in terms of sex, the presence of unpleasant male behaviors, family restrictions on the presence of women in urban spaces, gender norms, structural restrictions on the presence of women in some public spaces and the use of certain vehicles and values and norms of noble woman, affected by economic and cultural capital and district of residence, as well as work and transportation. In addition, women react differently to the obstacles and limitations. By resisting the facing challenges in urban spaces, women seek to achieve creative and effective civic activism. In order to realize this objective, institutions such as families and education shall act to change attitudes and gender relations and develop the culture of acceptance of women in public spaces.
Dr Bahram Nikbakhsh, Dr Mehran Hafezi Birghani,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (3-2024)
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The present study aims to investigate the effect of structural variables such as the cycle of isolation, immobility and social depression taken place according to the socio-economic base of the elderly. This study was conducted on retired elderly people during the outbreak of Corona disease with the aim of analyzing the effects of the mentioned variables in pandemic conditions. The statistical population is related to the retired elderly in Ahvaz city during the last 5 years, of which 196 people were selected. The collected data were analyzed in the form of structural equations using pls-smart3 and spss software. The research findings showed that the impact of the entire socio-economic base on the variables; physical mobility (-0.378), mental mobility (-0.707), social exhaustion (0.422) and cycle of isolation (0.730). Also the effects of the total isolation cycle variable on the variables; mental mobility is (-0.488) and social depression (0.439), and the total effects of physical mobility on social depression were (-0.270). Therefore, the variable of continuation of the cycle of isolation predicts the level of social depression on the socio-economic status of the elderly (path coefficient (0.302). Socio-economic base affects the level of mobility on the physical dimension, but this influence on the mental dimension has not been confirmed. Also between the continuation of the cycle of isolation and social depression, the mental mobility variable plays a mediating role (0.265). Therefore, the results of this research can help improve the quality of life of the elderly in critical conditions and also help health and care organizations in planning and providing better services for this vulnerable group.
Amir Rastegar, Mostafa Karami,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (4-2024)
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This study aimes to investigate the relationship between cultural capital and interactivity with attitudes towards aggression among students of Takestan secondary schools. For this purpose, the present study follows the logic of quantitative research. Thus, students of the first secondary school of Takestan were studied as the statistical population. A number of 357 people were selected as the research sample, the sample size was calculated according to the Cochran formula and the sampling was done using the random sampling method. Also, data was collected using a questionnaire. The SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The results show that demographic characteristics are related to attitudes towards aggression. Among the measured demographic characteristics, educational background, age, and gender play the largest role in students' attitudes towards aggression. Also, family characteristics have a positive effect on attitudes towards aggression. Among the family variables, father's job, mother's job, and father's education have a greater contribution to students' attitudes toward aggression, respectively. Also, according to the research findings, students' cultural capital has an inverse relationship with attitudes toward aggression. In the first step of examining the obtained results, it was determined that the amount and volume of cultural capital affects students' attitudes toward aggression. As this type of cultural capital increases, the level of attitude toward aggression decreases. People with higher cultural capital have a less positive attitude toward violence than others. Students each enter school with different cultural capitals, and establishing communication begins to affect their moral characteristics and personality formation. Therefore, their interactivity and communication skills, as the ability to express correct verbal and non-verbal characteristics, affect aggression.
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