Journal of Applied Sociology
Year:2011 | Volume:21 | Issue:4 (40)|Papers Count:9

The present study was conducted to investigate and compare the relationship between entrepreneurial characteristics and job satisfaction among male and female participant nurses. The study population consisted of the nurses working at the Kamyab Hospital in the city of Mashhad. After the collection and analysis of the data, 12 hypotheses out of the total 13 were confirmed and the main results were as follows: The Pearson correlation between entrepreneurial characteristics of the personnel and their job satisfaction turned out to be 0.578 which indicates a quite strong meaningful relationship between the two variables. For the second hypothesis, the Pearson correlation of the entrepreneurial characteristics of the female participants and their job satisfaction turned out to be 0.592 in comparison to 0.601 for the male participants, both of which showed a strong correlation between the two variables. The results of the t-test indicated that there was no meaningful difference between male and female participants in terms of their self-confidence, internal control, positive attitude, need of success, need of independence and prudence whereas a meaningful difference existed between male and female participants in terms of creativity, innovation, tendency towards economic welfare and risk-taking. The male participants enjoyed the later characteristics more than females. Furthermore, a meaningful difference was observed between the two genders in terms of the average entrepreneurial morale where male population showed a higher level compared to female participants. Also no meaningful difference was observed between the two genders in terms of their job satisfaction.

In between urban land use, green spaces are part of the frameworks of the cities, which we refer to as the animate part of the framework structure of the city, and in correlation with inanimate part of the city; they create the texture and appearance of it. But according to importance of expansion of green space in cities, instead of the development and expansion of these spaces in isfahan which was someday regarded as the model of Islamic garden -town with appropriate green space, the focus in the recent years have been more on the development of framework- residential, commercial, structures and roads, parking lots etc. but among the prior ones and roads have the sixth rank in planning. Therefore, it is clear that the current approach has a one - dimensional theory for planning and using all these users and the relation between these spaces with each other has been almost forgotten. For instance, in the current conditions, many of city planners focus on development of cross over and streets to diminish traffic, but regarding the high demands for travel, volume of automobile arrival, easy automobile buying and owning, the preference of citizens for using personal cars and the gradual increase in urban travels due in appropriate access to urban services, the expansion of streets and changing urban textures in to cross avers and devoting a substantial part of urban budgets to creating roads, highways, autobahns and parking lots, to what extent we can have control over cities, and isn’t it the time take aside the conventional planning for urban lands and do something to solve these problems? If the current process continues, soon in looking downward from the sky to this city, well see a black city with black links connected together, not a green city with green links connected together.so this paper analyzes the irregular increase in roads and crossovers and parking lots with a comparing - analyzing method and in turn studies the green spaces with a statistical method and finally provides some procedures to solve this problem, using modern components of urban planning.

This research deals with the investigating the relationship between organization culture and corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Case Study: Energy Ministry). In this paper, the above-mentioned research split in two parts. First, issues regarding organization culture and organization culture management, then effects of organization culture’s stabilization on corporate social responsibility. The questionnaires list regarding organization culture derivated from Baron and Greenberg’s model and the questionnaires list regarding corporate social responsibility derivated from Denison’s model and necessary correct nesses exerted by interview with professors and some experts The main effective criteria are achieved by exploratory studies and focus group interviews with experts. A questionnaire designed and distributed among a random sample of customers. Some related hypothesizes are tested and the results have been discussed. The finding of this study shows that organization culture has an important effect on organization climate and corporate social responsibility and there is a positive correlation between organization culture and corporate social responsibility (P<%5), in the meantime, mental model of employees is the most effective factor in corporate social responsibility.

The purpose of this article is to survey the amount of application and desirability of teaching organization's indices in public universities of Iran. The paper determines the indices of teaching organization in five domains, teachable point of view, ideas, values, emotional energy and edge. In this study the method is descriptive- survey. The statistical population of this research are all the faculty members of public medical and nonmedical universities in 1385- 1386. The sample consist of 345 managers and faculty members who were selected through random cluster multi stages sampling, but 315 took part in the research. In order to gather the data, a 74 item researcher made questionnaire on the basis of Tichy's teaching organization theory in the form of Lykert's 5 degree scale with a reliability of 0.87 is used. One sample t test is used to analyze the data. The findings of this research indicates that the mean scores of the subjects about the application of teaching organization indices are all less than the mean of criterion (3) and there is a significant difference between all the means of indices. But the examinees' responses regarding desirability in applying the teaching organization indices in universities with score mean of 4.25 is much more than the mean criterion. The observed t revealed that the differences of means in regarding all indices were significant.

The present research has been done to by the aim of Study of effecting of social and economical factors on societal seciority feeling. The societal seciority feeling of the in this research has been divided into three dimension of life security, property security and political security. The ideas of Barry Buzan and Ole Weaver (Copenhagen school of thought theoricians) and part of Talkot Parsonz theory, have been chosen as theorical frame of this Survey. The data of research has been collected by survey from a sample made of a vlume of 600 person taken from population of 16 year (old age) of Ahwaz and its suburbs residents by a multi-step selected cluster sampeling. The research showed that; the variables of "desive of participation for security ensurance", " police function" and "Social-economic status" directly enfluence and the variable of "relative deprivation feeling inversely enfluence on societal security feeling. It should also be noted that the variables "sex" and "law function" directly enfluence on life security, also"ethnic identity" relationship with property security feeling.

In this study, considering the most important viewpoints of classic and Social trust is considered as the most important component of social capital and of the most important concepts in sociology. Varying social structure and general changes in various social, economical, and political domains of modern society and resulted problems has made this concept very attracted, but this doesn’t mean that the classic thinkers haven’t paid attention to it. By gaining importance in modern society, the social trust took a special place for policy makers, planners, and authorities so that it was paid attention in the economical, social project of development of the country to estimating the social capital and in turn social trust. Accordingly, knowing trust rate and its most influencing and relevant factors in Chaharmahal-va- Bachtyari province this study was performed to answer this question: at what rate is the social trust in the centers of the province? And what are its most influencing and relevant factors? contemporary theoreticians such as Durkhim, Weber, Toonis, Putnam, Bourdieu, Fukuyama, Giddens, Erickson, Offe, and indoors and outdoor researches, it was separated various trust such as interpersonal, institutional, public, organizational, political and trust to jobs and stands as subdivisions of social trust and they were estimated by survey method with a sample of 612 individuals in 6 cities of the province, then it was case-studied their relations with the varriables of security feeling, religious beliefs, government performance, legalism, assumption of religiosity and piety, and ethical values. The sample volume was selected by Cochran formula after preliminary test and calculating p, q and sampled by stratified method and then the data was gathered. The results showed that the trust rate is at the middle and lower than that in all above mentioned subdivisions, unless the interpersonal and institutional trust. And the varriables of ethical values, government performance and legalism had the most correlation to social trust. The variables of religious beliefs, security feeling, and assumption of religiosity and piety had significant correlation coefficient with social trust.

This research study and examination of relationship between religious identity and social capital in kashan people in 1387 year).the population of kashan city is 162136 in 1385 year. The sample size based on Cockran formula is 384. The significant are: survey research. data and information for the census community has been collected based on the questioner. and the questionnaire by suitable structures Reliability (based on kronbaghs coefficient of Alfa) After examining the theory for the mentioned topic and collecting data and information, The results of statistical methods are: the religion identity that is composition 0f attachment, warranty and religious dimensions has much results in the kashan society for example: to guide way people life, to procreate position approach to aftertime and corroborate sprite and expectation moral to better after time, to answered for deep and fundamental questions for human in the life, to procreate, integeration and empathetic sense in society (that are social capital evidence). So in this research, the mount of collective appearance and social capital will increase by increasing religious identity in religious and warrant dimension.

The paper studies sufficiency and capability of cultural and artistic centers, as university's civil institutions, for developing social capital. According to Putnam's approach, the research analyses the triple forms of social capital, Within-centers, Between-centers and Institutional, among the centers, in related to triple elements of social capital (social communication network, social cooperation and social trust) which defined by Putnam. A Combination of Quantititative (survey) and Qualititive (deep interview) methods has been used for gathering data. The results show that intergroup forms of social capial are more and stronger than exogroup forms. Although there are much tendency and propensity in the Centers for expanding universal forms of social capital but existent created space and imposing widespread limitations by the university management have annihilated the possibility of developing generalized social capital.

Social capital is considered to be a determinant factor in development experiences and policies in contemporary advanced societies; despite its short history in social sciences and economics literature, social capital has appeared as important as human and physical counterparts. Using quantitative methodology, this paper aims at investigate the impacts that social capital has on economic activities; in this respect, the degree of social capital was measured through questionnaire in all cities of Hamadan province; then, its influences on economic activities was explored focusing on urban areas. The findings demonstrated a low degree of social capital which in turn leads to criminal behaviors, disobedience of law, and high mistrust. The mentioned factors has resulted to increasing cost of production and decreasing rate of economic productivity. In addition, this study showed that there is a significant and negative interrelationship between social capital, economic growth and enterprise in private section; thus, the low degree of social capital has negative impact on economic units through increasing cost of production.