SOCIAL RESEARCH
Year:2013 | Volume:6 | Issue:20|Papers Count:10

Computer simulations have an important role in the study of various social phenomena and concepts. In this paper by doing simulation, various strategies for transfer of experience among agents in artificial society has been proposed and implemented and their effects on some of measures of social welfare like as Gini Coefficient, wealth average and mortality due to starvation have been studied and compared.Research methodology in this paper is simulation based on field and library studies. By using "NetLogo" software, agent-based simulation has been implemented and the required artificial society is created. Also some parameters and measures have been considered in the simulation until thereby the effectiveness of various strategies implementation of experience transfer among agents be measured.Findings and results of simulations indicate that implementation of some of the strategies cause more effective improvement in the measures of social welfare. For example, implementation of the strategy so-called "Training the Least Experienced Agent(s) by All (Other) Agents" compared to other strategies causes better distribution of wealth among agents of the society. Also, strategies of "Collaborative Training", "Training the Least Experienced Agent(s) by All Agents" and "Training the Poorest Agent(s) by All (Other) Agents" have highest effects in better distribution of wealth in the society. Also, in the improvement of wealth average of agents, "Training the Least Experienced Agent(s) by All Agents", and in the reduction of mortality due to starvation, "Collaborative Training", were most effective strategies. The results show that implementation of the strategies in which all agents’ participation involved in the transfer of experience, have most efficiency in improvement of the measures of social welfare.

Social trust is one of the social achievements that play a vital role in human relationships and interactions. The fundamental pivot of social interactions is “trust”. The role of “trust” in the interaction of small and large groups is different. Trust makes people to stop being suspicious in their social relationships with others and to establish more intimate relations which cannot be formed without trust. This study investigates the way social interactions can have an impact in formation and maintenance of social trust in the current situation of inhabitants in Tehran.The present study is descriptive and the survey method was used to collect questionnaires. To sampling participants, random clustering sampling was used. The research participants were all Tehrani citizens over 18, living in third and seventeenth zones at 1389. To determining sample size, Cochran formula was used, based on 400 cases were included as the sample size.Social trust was examined in six dimensions of honesty, frankness, sharing, cooperative dispositions, trusting and trust. The results of the study showed that significant relations between the variables of social interactions, social ties, altruism, and religiosity with the rate of social trust.

What is caused serious concerns in recent years is reducing age of drug addiction and increasing statistics of addicts due to several reasons that these concerns has greatly enhanced because of existence of official and unofficial statistics of drug addiction among educational centers and schools. In this article in addition to evaluating addiction prevention programs in schools, the role and status of social work as a valuable and expertise profession in the process of addiction prevention programs is discussed. To achieve this aim, archival_library method is used, so that the addiction prevention programs and plans in schools have been evaluated and also qualitative content analysis is used to explain the results.The research findings show that programs, which are designed to prevention drug addiction in schools, have been incoherent, sectional, and short-term. Moreover, these programs (in various aspects) are not benefiting from existence expertise such as social work that it totally caused lack of necessary efficiency in this field.

Research title is a survey on the relationship of marital conflicts with emotional divorce, and its purpose is a survey on its relationship. To obtaining these purpose, we posed amin hypothesis which had sub- hypothesis and evaluate the effect of independent variable (marital conflicts) on dependent of 173 persons of referring womento the we used inferential and descriptive and spss software.Therefore two questionnaires of marital conflicts and statistical sampling members.Emotional divorce generally which every are such as: 60.60Reduction of cooperation17.57 Reduction of cooperation23.04 Reduction of cooperation5.33 Reduction of cooperation5.81 Reduction of cooperation4.81 Reduction of cooperation14.29 Reduction of cooperationIndividualization of the capital.

Reference group is an important subject in sociological theory, this is a basic factor for and lists of social life, specially, it is more important in processes of social in visitations of middle ages groups.In this research, the attitudes of students of Roudehen Islamic Azad University about their teachers (professors) have been studied.As a result there is not high rate differences between men and women’s attitudes in relation to the university teachers.

The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of the plans of control and decrease of unemployment as a social phenomenon in the Third Programmed of Economical, Social and Cultural Development and also to know the role of social work in welfare procurement. Control and decrease of social problems need a complete knowledge of their different aspects. Thus proposing any suggestion to solve such problems should be based on this knowledge. With this in mind, in the present desk-work study, the concepts related to unemployment in Iran are presented and defined first in order to give a clear image of this social problem. This research is done based on the unemployment condition in the time of the execution of the Third Programmed of Economical, Social and Cultural Development. On the basis of the collected data and with the knowledge of the changes of unemployment rate the efficiency of the suggested solutions in the Third Programmed has been analyzed. The results of this study help us to make use of unemployment theories in removing the defects of these plans and policies. The results show that due to lack of enough knowledge of unemployment condition, plans fighting this social problem are not successful.

The research purpose is assessment of effectualness amount of effective cultural and social factors on the life quality of Tehran citizens and the researcher accounts for the subject based on sociology theories. The research method is a survey and the tool of data collection is a researcher – made questionnaire.Studied case consisted of 400 persons of Tehran citizens of north, south, center east and west regions of Tehran who were selected by random clustering sampling method.Collected data was analyzed by spa software for caring out the statistics and statistical, descriptive and inferential methods.The obtained results showed the relationship between social factors (social trust, social solidarity, social cooperation and two indicators of social base with the title of education and vasidentialregion) and cultural factors (cultural capital). But there is no relationship between encumbered by religion values as another indicator of cultural.

Social health on one hand is the most important indicator of community development and on the other hand can play a vital role in community development. Based on this program, planners, especially in the developed countries are trying to improve and promote the health of people. One way to improve the health of individuals is measuring the rate of this indicator and identifying factors that increase physical, mental and social health.The methodology of this research is documentary and survey. Accordingly the researchers tested 400 high school girls, through multiple-stage cluster sampling. Descriptive and analytical data obtained through Kendall, gamma, and D. Summers were analyzed.It was explained by the assumption that there is a difference between students' social health and the various indicators of father's education, quality of life and socio-economic, are effective on the students' social health.Finally, this research, after identifying and acquiring knowledge of the current state of social health in girls students, offered suggestions for improving and maintaining social health's indicators. We hoped that it will help the responsible organizations for the provision of appropriate policies prevention programs.