Journal of Applied Sociology
Year:2012 | Volume:23 | Issue:3 (47)|Papers Count:12

This study is intended to examine affecting factors on student's happiness, emphasizing the social participation. Using an integrated theoretical framework helped us to make our hypotheses out of it. All Allame's students and Amirkabir's students are population which made a 400 sample size. The sample size based on stratified cluster sampling and research's data gathered through questionnaires. Findings based on T-test and Pierson tests, show relationship between all variables but, gender and formal participation with happiness. Findings on multiple regression technique show that, Satisfactory of needs, trust to others and informal social participation affect happiness, respectively. Also, the relevant variables account for about 15 percent of the variance on student's happiness.

The aim of this study was to explore the socio-cultural as well as individual-familial consequences of the increased number of female applicants admitted to higher education. The research method was descriptive and evaluative in nature with the statistical population composed of the students from Shahid Beheshti Tehran, Allameh Tabatabaei Tehran, Bouali Sina Hamedan and Shahid Chamran Ahvaz universities, of whom 403 were selected as sample size by stratified sampling, proportionate to the population size. The tool for data collection was a researcher-developed questionnaire and reliability was estimated using Chronbach's Alpha. The data obtained from the research were analyzed both descriptively and inferentially using SPSS and other documentation. The results indicated that in the students' views, the socio-cultural as well as individual-familial consequences of increased number of female applicants admitted to higher education was above average and significant at 0.05 level. The mean socio-cultural consequences were greater than that of the individual-familial consequences. A study of demographic variables indicated that compared to male students, female students placed greater emphasis on the socio-cultural consequences of the increased number of applicants admitted to higher education. As for other demographic variables (department, academic level, semester, father's education, mother's education, marital status, employment status), there was no significant difference.

The purpose of this study, the sociological approach to the study of gender roles and relationships with social capital and its components, the framework deals with social capital theorists.Methods: The study combined quantitative research methods, the meta-analysis, the primary sources of data are extracted and combined, the result is a new whole; This means that the primary analysis (Preliminary analysis of data) to analyze the secondary (re-analysis data) to be paid. The meta-analysis method for each of two [levels significantly (significant Level), size effect (Effect size)] should be extracted and recorded. The extraction of other information (including the theory and research / statistical population and sample size / measuring instruments or questionnaires / evaluation methods such as reliability and validity / conclusions and recommendations) of the identified research objective function is achieved.Results: The meta-analysis using the framework document based on a senior thesis (79%) and PhD (21%), at public universities (94%) and Azad (6%), and the distribution of performed (Thesis / Research), respectively, in the area of social capital (43%), social trust (32%), and social participation (25%) would back such that the meta-analysis of research hypotheses; First: the relationship between gender and social capital: evidence from the data assimilation and acceptance, while an acceptable correlation between gender and social capital (H1) is in the research. Secondly: the relationship between gender and social trust: evidence from the data assimilation and acceptance, while an acceptable correlation between gender and social trust (H1) is in the research. Thirdly: the relationship between gender and social participation: evidence of heterogeneous data while rejection of acceptable correlation between gender and social participation (H0) is in the research.

In this paper the impact of media consumption on social identity among students of Isfahan University is studied. Among different social groups, students are subject to wider identity changes. The variety of their behavior, manners, clothing, fashion, etc. illustrates these changes. A deeper understanding of the impact of media on Students' social identity can help us better understand their political and social behavior. This study applied survey method to collect and analyze data about media consumption and social identity. Sample size includes 188 male and female students of Isfahan University, who filled out our research questionnaire. The results of the study show that there is a significant relationship between quality and quantity of media consumption and respondents' social identity. While using printed and audio-visual media has a positive impact on national, religious, group, and gender identities, and encourages them, it has a negative impact on ethnic identity. Contrary, using electronic media strongly affect the social identity of students, and have negative impact on other dimensions of social identity.

Long-time discussions about the definition of well-being, factors affecting it and the huge volume of scientific research in the past few decades in the field of happiness and well-being indicate how important this topic is. This study investigates the relationship between belief in a just world and perceived organizational justice with employees' well-being in Kerman city. Belief in a just world demonstrates that people need to believe that everybody deserve what they earn. Subjective well-being emphasizes pleasant emotions and cognitive happiness. This study is a survey, designed on the basis of previous research and relevant theories, including Lerner's and Diener's theories. The data was collected by questionnaire. It should be noted that sample size includes 386 employees working in different Kerman's organizations. Sampling method was stratified random sampling. The data was analyzed using different statistical methods such as correlation and regression. The results of the study show that having a strong belief in a just world and perceived equity in the organization, increases well-being of the employees. According to regression analysis, 31% of the variance of the dependent variable is explained by independent variables.

In the last decade, especial attention is given to medical issues in medical sociology. One of the important issues is beauty as it is pursued by plastic surgery. Since in modern society appearance has become very important and some beauty standards are given extraordinary importance (whether right or wrong), a lot of people undergo many problems and difficulties to achieve beauty by plastic surgery. The present study provides a sociological analysis of tendency towards beauty as it is followed by plastic surgery. Research method is survey and measurement tool is questionnaire. Research population includes all 16- 64 year-old women and girls of Tabriz, whose number according to the national census of 1385 is 457845. Using Cochran formula, 385 individuals were randomly selected by stratified random sampling. Data was analyzed by SPSS. The results of the study show that there are meaningful relationships between variables such as age, cultural capital, religious beliefs and the tendency toward beauty. Overall, our independent variables, namely, social capital, cultural capital and religious beliefs were able to explain 22% of the variance of dependable variable.

Having adequate coverage in public community is one of the religious countries challenges such as Islamic Republic of Iran. Reluctance to appropriate and consistent veil based on Islamic norms accounts as a current problem in Iran. This study tended to analyze tendency to veil and related factors by sociological approach. In data collection, the survey method and self reported questionnaire were used and 508 women and girls were selected by stratified random sampling. The result have shown significant relationship between religious identity (r=0.403) and religious lifestyle (r=0.174) with dependent variable. Also body image (r=0.231), body management (r=0.203), informational technologies (-0.212), modern sport-musical avtivities (-0.174), new participational lifestyle (-0.200) and new leisure lifestyle (-0.20) have had negative relationship with tendency to veil variable. Finding result by multi variable regression has shown that religious identity (22.8), modern sport-musical activities' (3.5) and traditional musical lifestyle (1.3) have explained percent of the variations of tendency to veil.

Social trust is one of the most important concepts of the social sciences whose presence facilitates social communication. It is essential for organizational performance as well. The present study aimed to investigate social trust among high-school teachers of Marand. Our theoretical framework is inspired by rational choice theory, reasoned action theory, and ideas of Giddens, Bourdieu, Colman, Erikson and so on. The measurement instrument is questionnaire. The sample is composed of 280 individuals, who were selected from a population of 1285 (all high-school teachers in Marand) using stratified random sampling. The data was analyzed by SPSS, using statistical techniques such as T test, ANOVA, and correlation coefficients. The main result of this study is that respondents’ social trust is at a high level. Also, variables such as profit expectation, traditionalism and religious beliefs are in a direct relationship with social trust, but social alienation is in a reverse relationship with social trust.

Vandalism is a tangible, harmful and inevitable phenomenon, which exists as an emblem of social life in modern society. Sociologically, vandalism is defined as a kind of mentality aimed at destruction of public assets and accessories. This research considers social factors which may impact tendency to vandalism among Yasouj's high-school students. In this study, a combination of sociological perspectives about deviation (such as Good's theory about family structure and anomie theory, socialization approach, social control theory and the sub-cultural theory), and theories of social psychology about deviation (such as Sutherland's theory about social learning and differential companion), are applied together with theories of Vandalism (Hauber, Mozr and Clark) to examine the relationships between variables.It is a survey study, based on questionnaire. Statistical society is all high-school students in Yasouj. Using Cochran formula, sample size was estimated 400 cases. Random cluster sampling was used. Pearson's tests show that the tendency towards Vandalism has significant relationships with socio-economic status, age, family size, and socialization, but does not have a significant relationship with gender. Multiple regression analysis shows that independent variables explain, overall, about 25 % of the variance of dependent variable.

This research is a study on the efficient sociological factors on Vandalism across senior high school students of district two of Ahvaz. The research data was collected through a surveying method, and participants were 376 persons out of 17054 among senior high school students of district two of Ahvaz city. They were randomly selected in a categorical method. The dependent variable (vandalism) was investigated via a questionnaire and its relationship with the independent variables such as The students gender, The students educational situation, The persons socio-economical base, The relationship with vandals, weakness feeling, abnormality student feeling, relative deprivation feeling, and social seclusion feeling, which are driven from the theories: A) the holistic sociologists or the very classics (Dorkim or Merton) and, B) the atomistic or contemporary sociologists (Cloward, Ohlin and Miller with atomistic cultural theory Sutherland with discriminating learning theory-Seeman with Alienation theory and Hirshi with social Control theory) was hypothesized and tested. The collected data was analysed using descriptive and deductive statistics via SPSS software. The findings varified the hypotheses. In this research the data collection was done by questionnaire. Analysis of the findings confirmed the research hypothesis. Results showed that the prediction equation of the trend tendency toward Vandalic behavior can predict 0.406 percent of the variance of the independent variable. And since the research model could predict 0.406 percent of the variance of the independent variable using seven variables (academic achievement, social-economic status, contact with offenders, feeling of powerlessness, sense of relative deprivation, sense of social isolation, and sense of anomie), it can be said that its predictive power is good.