SOCIAL SCIENCES BULLETIN
Year:2010 | Volume:3 | Issue:4|Papers Count:11

The present article is to study Generation Gap based on the identification of challenges situating against Iranian Family. After the statement of problem, this research has raised the primary questions by semantic separation and definition among four similar concepts of Difference, Conflict, Discontinuity and Generation Gap, and then it has analyzed theories and researches which are related to generation gap and confrontation of this problem with structures of modern families in Iran. Therefore, the data and results of some researches in Iran which considered with value conflict among generations are used On the basis of this matter; the aim of present paper is the cognition of status quo about generation gap and the analysis of the factors lead to generation gap. So findings show that there hasn't seen a considerable difference among age groups in Iran with consideration to various existed factors in the investigation of findings of performed researches. In the field of confrontation of generation values with family, the inner and intergenerational relations, there is no considerable difference in the field of family values among generations and there is, more or less a kind of collective unity in related to these values, among the young and adult generations. On the other hand, there is no deep gap and thoughtful difference in the Public sphere of the culture of Iran society, but the existed generation gap, contrary [9public sphere, is seen at the private life of people of our society.

Cultural anomie is the most important dimension of social anomie, which is recognized at the level of social behavior. It is known as the situation that social behavior and social groups in society is performed outside the circle norms. This situation caused by weakness in the form of social norms and can be visible in social insecurity, moral decline, individual and group deviations, misuse of social relations, etc Cultural norms consider as should and should not be of behavior that exist as a form of social performance in the society, and when the power of using influence on performance lost, its outcome is cultural anomie.The goal of this study is to survey the relationship between cultural anomie and addiction among young people. In this article, anomie has been measured with variables such as pessimism, distrust and confusion. The sample size was 200 young addicted people aged 13-28 years from Tehran s districts No.2, 6, 10, 14. They were selected through simple random sampling. Data was collected through questionnaire; the data of research were analyzed thru descriptive statistics and Pearson s correlation test.Results show that cultural anomie has influenced upon the tendency of people toward addiction, also pessimism towards self and other lead to tendency toward the addiction, Mistrust of people towards everything effects on drug addiction, Individual confusion and chaos between norms impact on drug addiction, also void of personality and life of persons can influence upon drug addiction.

Human resource and work factor consider as an important factor in society development. Attention to this factor causes that organization and society's goals come closer to each other. One of the tasks of managers and experts is to recognize factors influencing the quality of human resources and consequently create work commitment of personnel. This article is an attempt to investigate the factors affecting personnel's work commitment. The given model in this paper consists of work identity, work justice, work satisfaction and background variables which influence work commitment. data is collected through questionnaires distributed among 296 personnel who worked in governorship and are selected thru stratified sampling. The results of regression indicate that work satisfaction (STD=0/46) affecting the work commitment more than the others, then work identity (STD=0/33) is the next one. R2 = 0/45 means that %45 of changes in work commitment is explained by the given variables.

Iranian Armenian are an ethnic-religious group in Iran which are living with Iranian during their long history. Since 350 years ago that they have moved to this country, so they are a part of this nation now. Studying about their cultural religious continuity during the history has been my PhD thesis and this article is written according to the results of that. Here we are going to study about their cultural symbols and elements of Armenian identity and the mechanisms of their ethnic continuity form a sociological point of view. To examine the questions of this study, we used a theoretical framework consisting of the Ethno-Symbolism Theory of Anthony Smith and Social Identity Theory of Richard Jenkins. This is a historical theoretical study also survey and interviews is' used for testing hypothesis. This research is conducted on the ¦ field study in order to examine smith's theory in Iran. The results show strong ethnic identity among Armenians and the transformation of these subjective and objective elements to next generations.

The objective of this article is to investigate the efforts of social scientists in the analysis of the status of history for the growth and development of science and securing the validity of social sciences from a historical standpoint. To this end, necessity of deeding with traditional-historical methods was felt through comparing and contrasting social sciences with natural sciences. In this approach the concern for clarity, stability and order was scrutinized and it was found that traditional historical method is unable to discover relations between material and nature of the phenomenon. On the other hand, the archeology of knowledge and genealogy were investigated from Foucault's view as an analytical method, which emphasizes on dissociation, discontinuity and disunity. Therefore, this is a library study. Date analysis shows that historical methods are unable to understand the nature of phenomena due to the complexities of history. So, using archeological and genealogical methods can, in the face of many limitations, pave the way for the growth of an appropriate "method".The results indicate that despite complexities and ambiguities in archeology and genealogy and the necessity to reconsider them, the researchers need to initiate fresh moves for better utilization and adopt more appropriate synthetically methods.

This research aims at recognizing the effects of stereotype on gender inequality in the families among employed women in education organization of Hamadan. To explain these impacts, we have used theoretical foundations such as the resource theory, social learning theory, gender schemata theory, labeling and feminist theories. This is a survey research which use questionnaire and interview as a side technique and it is done on 344 women who were selected through cluster sampling. Data analysis has been performed in descriptive statistics level based on frequency distribution tables and in inferential statistics using Pearson correlation coefficient, T-test, multivariable regression factor analysis and path analysis. In this research, based on regression equation, 61% of gender inequality is predicted. The results show that independent variables such as education level and respondents' revenue are reversely and significantly related with dependent variable of gender inequality.The variables of gender socialization, gender ideology, gender norms, role playing, and gender stereotype are related positively and significantly with gender inequality in the families.There is a positive and significant relationship between age variable and one of its indices (gender politics) with gender inequality, but there was no significant relationship among occupation rank with the other indexes of age.

Sport is a socio- cultural phenomenon that leads to interact in a social network with complicated social relations and it has become the field of emersion of behaviors, attitudes, values and meaningful presentation of recent century. This multi-dimensional phenomenon has such an influence on human beings lives that nowadays according to athletic attitudes and activities of people; we can realize their thought, lifestyle and social capital. This is a survey research aiming at studying the effective social factors on athletic participation among the students of Islamic Azad university of Tehran. The theoretical and statistical data has been collected through survey method from the units of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran and by applying questionnaire and systematic sampling, and 310 people are selected as the sample subjects of this study by applying Cochran formula. The results of this survey show that there is no relation between level of study and athletic participation, but there are meaningful relationships between marriage status, gender, socio-economic status, employment, and sport beneficiary, availability of sport facilities, social support and existence of champion athlete in the family and to be interested in a special sport with athletic participation of students. The results show, regressive multi variable analysis in step-by-step method, for dependent variable of athletic participation. Overall six variables have the most effect on the athletic participation, marriage status, gender, beneficiary feeling, and availability of sport facilities, social support, to be interested in sport. Generally the input variables could explain 24% of depend 24% variable (R= 47%).

The main concern of this article is to measure academic identity among students of Islamic Azad University, and to explore its effective social factors. The theoretical framework is based on Richard Jenkins's theory of exogenous-indigenous dialectics, which is a compilation of Coley, Mead, Goffman, Marx and Bourdieu's ideas. According to the theoretical framework, variables such as academic culture (including education culture, learning culture, organization and management culture, and student's subculture), cultural capital (including incarnation, objectified and institutionalized capitals) and educational motives identified as effective social factors of academic identity.Research design was survey type non-experimental research. Research population was all undergraduate students were under education in four Islamic Azad University branches- including Roudhen, Shahriar- Shahre-Ghods, karaj and Pishva-Varamin branches. 380 students were selected as representative sample of all the students, and 351 of them were participated in this research. Method of sampling was non proportional stratified sampling. The tool for gathering data was a questionnaire designed by the researcher. The questionnaire's validity and reliability realized respectively by applying content validity and internal consistency methods. Data were analyzed using SPSS 12 and LISREL 8.5 software. Results show that academic identity is significantly correlated by academic culture, cultural capital and educational motive. And, at first, academic culture, and then, cultural capital have more significant effects on academic identity, and educational motives has no significant effect on academic identity.