CULTURAL STUDIES & COMMUNICATION
Year:2012 | Volume:8 | Issue:27|Papers Count:8

The purpose of this study is the explanation of sciological rituals and religious practices. Durkheim’s theory constitutes the theoretical framework for this study. The dependent variables are religious rites and practices. The independent variables include religious socialization, social solidarity, social control, community revitalization, and gender. The research population is the population of high school students in Dezful in the 2011-2012 academic year from which a sample of 350 students has been drawn based on Cochran’s formula. Findings have been arrived at using the SPSS software package for data analysis. These findings show the existence of positive significant relationships between religious rites and practices on the one hand and other independent variables the study on the other hand including religious socialization, social control, social solidarity, and social revitalization operationalized based on Durkheim’s theories. Multiple correlation coefficients point to the fact that social control has the strongest relationship followed by the variables of religious socialization, social solidarity, and social revitalization respectively. Results also showed higher female religiosity levels shown as compared with religious practices reported for boys.

The purpose of this article is to theoretically and empirically explain the analytical model for a relationship in which the religious dimensions act as an independent variable and the social capital as a dependent variable. Based on theoretical perspectives of social capital and expert views by Coleman, Putnam and Fukuyama, and others, components of “trust”, “consistency” and “participation” are defined as the core components of social capital. In this study, the religion of employees as a cultural factor affecting the amount of social capital is explored. The research method is of a survey type and data have been collected with valid and reliable questionnaires. The research population consisted of all employees in the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone of Mahshahr Petrochemical complex in Iran. Cochran formula was used to determine sample size and the number of employees required based on this formula was 320 individuals. Based on the research findings, the main hypothesis, i.e., the positive relationship between social capital and religiosity of the personnel, was confirmed (a£0.01).

In this recent decades, focusing to Agency, has led to human concepts, that one of them is quality of life, that can be considered one of the important indicators of human development. Accordingly, this research aims to investigate the relationship among social, cultural and economic capitals and quality of life.The research was conducted by Survey method. The data were collected by respond closed questionnaire. The statistical population consists of 95189 athletes in Tabriz that 400 individuals were selected by Stratified random sampling method by using Cochran formula as final sample. After collection of the questionnaires the data were analyzed by SPSS software. Correlation coefficient r and regression tests were employed for test of hypotheses proportionate to level of measuring of variables.The findings show, Quality of life for athletes is moderate and there is a significant correlation among variable of economic capital, social capital and quality of life. Also based on regression analysis, the variables used to have explained 14 percent variation in the dependent variable. Other results, According to regression analysis, variables of interpersonal trust and economic capital affected more than other variables on athletes quality of life.

Disrespect for and rejection of law by human beings is among the most serious social pathologies which have always been and is wrestling with humankind. If law invasion in a society exceeds the norms this can pose a threat to social system and cause server damage to it. This phenomenon as a social pathology is caused by numerous factors. Social capital due to creating a positive existential potentialities and capacities within the individual can prevent this to happen. The aim of this article is to determine the inter-relationships between social capital and law evasion. The method of research was survey and population study was Yazd city citizens (marriage people) in year in 1390. The sample study includes 362 citizens that were selected in multistage cluster. The main technique of gathering data was investigated questionnaire with suitable validity and reliability. Then, this information given to spss program. The results indicate: There were inverse relationship between social capital and law evasion. Also, there were inverse relationship between indicators of social capital as (social participation, civil engagement, social support, interpersonal trust, and trust to legislative) and law-evasion. But no existence relationship between sense of security and awareness to law and law-evasion. The regression analysis also indicates the three variable of interpersonal trust, trust to legislative and civil engagement, explained the 12.2 percent of variance of law-evasion. Therefore the struggle of officials and those in authority for enhancing the trust, increasing social participation and civil engagement can be reduce the grounds for social pathologies.

Participation is human right. Its aim is emancipation and self –confidence and so means for mobilization and taking role people in relationships your social life. The experience development programs in developing countries has shown that due to ignoring popular participation, failed to achieve desired goals. In frame theoretical and empirical this essay attend to processional and agency elements in micro –level and mesolevel and formulated with constructs social capital, personality characters and social-economic status. The research methods are documentary and survey. In this study statistical population is people over 18 age old, residence in regions city and rural in central province, that of this population selected sample with size 1648 people. The results of tests showed that in confidence /99 in level meso between variable social capital and dependent variable there is significant relation, also In level micro between variable personality characters with dependent variable there is significant relation but there isn’t significant relation between variable social-economic status, which combined of variables income, level education, kind of housing and rank occupational; with dependent variable. The results of multivariable analysis showed in scale province variables social capital and personality characters explained 39 percent variance dependent variable. This percent for region’s city is 31 and for region’s rural is 47 percent. The path analysis showed effect social capital in scale province and regions city and rural is more than personality characters.

Nowadays, social scientists pay a lot of attention to the cultural capital of societies and its role in the use of cultural commodities. The basic aim of this paper was to investigate the links between or the interaction of social identity and social capital on the one hand and cultural capital on the other hand in the population of the study. In this social Survey study, data were collected using questionnaires and interview techniques. The measurement scale and its reliability and validity for use with the research variables were checked using Cronbach’s alpha. A survey of all people between 15 to 65 years in Kashan and Aran in 1390 was performed, 760 of whom were selected using Cochran’s formula. Results of Pearson Product Correlation coefficient analyses showed significant positive correlations between the variables of social capital and economic and social aspects of cultural capital.

Life quality, as a phenomenon whose emergence was considered to be a reaction to industrial advancements and ecological distortion, has entered the cultural and social world. Although such advancements have contributed to the diversity in goods and services, they have not contributed to individuals’ satisfaction of life and life quality improvement. Therefore, the investigation of life quality (cultural and social aspect) has been widely discussed in sociology and cultural studies. The current study, exploiting a socio-cultural approach, investigated different factors influencing citizens’ life quality. The methodology of the current study was survey-based. Using questionnaires and cluster sampling, the study collected data from among the population of Kashan with a sample of 353.The results showed that the average proportion of Cultural and Social aspect of life quality factors is high. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between the two aspects of life quality with age. Considering the social aspect of life quality, there was not any significant difference between males and females. However, males had a better situation in the cultural aspect of life quality. The average proportion of the social aspect of life quality occupied a better stance among the married in comparison with the single; however, they are the same with respect to the cultural aspect of life quality. The respondents having M.A. and higher degrees had a better the cultural aspect of life quality. However, there was not any significant difference among different educational groups regarding the social aspect of quality life.

The concept of the quality of life has a special place in the literature on sustained development. The quality of life is one’s understanding of his or her present status and his or her positive evaluation of his life and environment. The purpose of the preset paper is to explore the interrelationships between variables and the survey and data have been collected through questionnaires and interviews. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured through Cronbach’s Alpha (a=0.78).The research population was the population of Kashan in 2012 and the Cochran’s formula gave the sample size of 610 people who were selected through proportionate random sampling. Results of Pearson Correlation showed positive relations between religiosity, self-satisfaction, social tendencies, needs fulfillment and the quality of life (r=0.388, 0.487, 0.261, 0.334 and 0.709 respectively). Regression results were 0.12, 0.30, 0.14, 0.16 and 0.60 respectively.