Journal of Iranian Cultural Research
Year:2013 | Volume:6 | Issue:3 (23)|Papers Count:11

This paper will attempt to offer a set of indicators that together construct a model which will help to measure social capital among users of social networks. The world is now experiencing some new changes that are affecting conceptual equations in social sciences, two of which are of our concern here: 1- the concept of social capital that has opened its way into epistemological basis of social sciences, and; 2- the world has welcomed the birth and development of social networks in our daily life, affecting many aspects of social actions. There is Facebook from among a handful of social networks that has reached the threshold of international networking capacity with roughly one billion users. We will use Robert Putnam's theory of social capital alongside Frank's methodological innovation regarding measuring tools of social capital in order to create a marriage between these two as well as to address a yet more problematizing issue, i.e., how to measure social capital of the Facebook users. Accordingly the paper will focus on Facebook as the field of research and will introduce triangulation approach that we used in order to come up with the set of indicators. Participatory observation and online survey were used as constructing elements of triangulation approach so to generate the necessary data for the above purpose. At first, we used participatory observation through which 14 targeted samples were selected and whatever they had in their profile in Facebook were collected and analyzed. This analysis helped us to construct our questionnaire which was launched through Google docs. In the end, some 218 respondent returned their completed questionnaires. The final stage of analysis consisted of finding out how we can use the results to offer a new tool for measuring social capital of Facebook users. The research findings indicated that there are 10 indicators which should be put together if social capital is to be properly measured.

Social system based on mutual trust among members continues to exist. Social trust in modern era is more important than earlier periods. Subject of current report is focused on the trust of Iranian students in different aspects. Main question in this investigation is about social-political trust of these students (based on trust in Islamic Republic of Iran) at the past and present. This matter explored by secondary analysis of data, Relying on secondary analysis of some national surveys. Based on data and consequences of other researches we are going to illustrate the objective aspects of student's trust in current decades. The main sources for data collection at this stage include: All the public surveys conducted in the past four decades, the general data about students and their related assays. Trust students were evaluated on the following dimensions: trust in trade unions and various groups, trust in the clergy, directors of public trust and confidence in judges. Furthermore, the level of political engagement and participation in elections, satisfaction with economic situation, political situation and level of satisfaction with confidence in radio and television news. Reduction of public trust leads to reduced maximum student trust especially in the social and political dimensions.

This research with title" study of relationship between youth¸ s family social capital and their religiousness in Tehran city". To pay of study relationship of youth, s family social capital with kind and measure their religiousness. For do this research, choiced 358 person of youths 18 untill 29 years from area, s 3 ,10 and 16 in Tehran. Instage of analysis datas, used from methods correlation tests and regression. The results of this study show that there are relation significance between youth, s family social capital with kind and measure their religiousness. also between indicators subjective distance and objective distance family social capital is relation significance. The results of regression show that from among indicators objective distance, parents life most share in anticipation measure their religiousness and also from among indicators subjective distance, cooperate most share in anticipation measure their religiousness. When control family social capital ,saw that in families with high social capital there are high correlation between measure religiousness, s parents and childrens until familes with low social capital.

This article is to do a sociologically analysis on transformation of values, Identities and life styles at Iranian post Islamic revolution society in cinema narrations. The method of study is qualitative; first the selected movies have been analyzed by applying semiotic narration analysis based on elements such as images, shots, actions, mise en secene, dialogues and scenes. Then their main social categories have been extracted and sociologically analyzed through thematic analysis strategy based on theoretical foundation of research. The population of research includes all post revolution Iranian cinema movies which 12 movies have been selected by purposive sampling method. These movies include; Narges, Fair People Wedding, Glass Agency, Under City Cover, Protest, Blue Scarf, Hemlock, Boutique, Wednesday Celebration, Trial in Street, about Eli & Separation of Nader & Simin. Findings show that selected movies narrate gaps, distinctness of social life domains, of instrumental rationality expansion & split of value systems.

The paper aims to analyze the importance of social capital dimensions and components in Imam Reza's Hadiths (RH). The research method was qualitative, interpretive and descriptive content analysis. According to the conceptual model of social capital, 56 RH out of 356 were considered as qualified for analysis. Results showed that all of social capital dimensions and components are cited as important from Imam Reza's point of view. Social capital has different degree which culminates in sacrifice and martyrdom. In the structural dimension, all of macro, middle and micro levels of social capital are cited. Of course, macro level of social network is more important which can be interpreted as universalistic view in RH. Objective structure is more dominant than the subjective. In the relational dimension, social capital is with less expectancy and compensation than retaliation, even if, the collective action is regarded. In the two thirds of the cases of RH, the direction of relation is positive which means that performance is more recommended than refusal. In the normative dimension, social capital has more worldly benefits, even if, hereafter benefits is also considered. The authors concluded that social capital as a scientific concept is completely accorded with ethical and religious concepts. Therefore, science can get help of religion for conceptual development. Also, religion and ethics for practical aims as well as to influence on society will be dependent on the experimental researches. So, human society development requires the cooperation of science and religion.

The main aim of present study was to examine the quality of college life (QCL) based on the model developed by Sirgy et al., (2010). The research design was correlational and the sample was comprises of 400 students from three universities including Tehran, Allameh and Kurdestan, which the respondents were selected using random sampling method. Quality of college life measurement was included three main subjects about college life as satisfaction with academic aspect, social aspect and facilities and services. In order to analysis the data structural equation modeling (SEM) were employed. Findings indicated that the satisfaction with services and facilities has significant effect on satisfaction with academic and social aspects of college life. Moreover findings revealed that satisfaction with quality of college life has significant effect on satisfaction with overall life among students. Results indicated that the satisfaction with academic aspect and facilities and services among Tehran’s university students is higher than Kurdestan’s university students. Based on present findings the quality of universities may receive more attentions by higher education system especially in low income provinces such as Kurdestan. Lack of facilities resulted in decreasing the quality of academic aspect, social aspect and quality of college life. Low satisfaction with college life is leading to decreasing the overall life satisfaction which resulted in issues such as depression, frustration and anxiety among students.