INTERCULTURAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
Year:2011 | Volume:6 | Issue:14|Papers Count:7

This study has been done regarding the importance of social trust to media, especially to information and news and the necessity of recognizing the pros and cons of diverse media in order to delineate the strategies utilized by the media.The present study underlined the amount of peoples’ trust in Sanandaj to news broadcasted via different media. The correlation research underscored diverse hypothesis within Hybrid approach and based on the structural model of the researcher. Indices of trust to media based on hypothetical studies and communication elites’ view point compiled and the sample participant’s idea toward each variable have been taken into account. The number of participant is 400 people who live in three high, middle and low regions in Sanandaj. That result gathered via cluster samplings in some levels. Systematic Questionnaires used in the research for gathering data.Data in the research shows that the amount of peoples’ access to media is as follows: Television (98.5 percent), radio (72.5), media (48 percent), internet (14.5 percent), (satellite 5.5). It is worth mentioning that the amount of their efficacy is also as follows: Television (90.8 percent), radio (34.5 percent) media ( 22.8 percent), internet (7 percent) satellite (2.8 percent). Based on 16 indices, each of them obtained different positions. Internet and satellite in speed, internet in transparency, satellite and internet in satisfying completely the audiences, internet in neutrality, national media in target orientation, and alien radios in contradiction ranked first. Via matching each media with trust indices, their places regarding the case (trust issue) are determined and pros and cons for each are recognized better. And The bottom line is that we should not forget trust is the main investment for media.

The literature of classic geopolitics knowledge supervises the objective aspects of the relation between power, politics and geography and along with the philosophical evolution in the final quarter of the twentieth century., political geography and geopolitics affected by this condition and endeavor to reconstruct their identity and theoretical literature production in response to new needs with “critical geopolitics" approach to break the structure of the traditional geopolitics. Semiotics can be considered as geopolitics code of post-modern discourse that tries to decode the social text produce by mass media. The method of the research is based on the library resources and content analysis. The target of the research is based on the study of recognition of representation term in geopolitics studies. The final result essay has that the term of representation has capability and wide meaning in geopolitical thinking of analysis.

The present study aims at detecting the effects of three kinds of relations on relation between religious people and religious scholars. In this research, three kinds of pieties which have some effects on this relation determined. These three kinds are as follows: piety with no belief in scholarship, piety free of scholarship and piety but not abide by the rules (ignorant religious). After hypothetical delineation and elaboration about the effects of these variables on the relation between religious men and scholars three hypotheses is proposed.1. The less the participants believe in the role of scholars, the less they have relation with them; 2. The more the participants meet their needs by modern tools, the less they have relation with religious scholars; 3. The more the participants are uncommitted to the aspects of religion, the less they have relation with religious scholars.

The necessity of constant development in the current Iran society is one of the vital needs. In this way the social development as one of the basis of the progress process indicates the quality of social system in obtaining the social justice and increasing the quality and capabilities of human being. So regarding the augmentation in welfare level and the quality of women lives which are Integral part of this process, we need to give special attention to the problems this level of society faced with. The present research aims at “studying the cultural, economical and social condition of women as head of the household in Ilam province (those who are supported by Imam Khomeini's Emdad (Aid) Committee and social welfare organization)”. This investigative study done among 371 participants via inquiries and interview in 2006 and the result of it showed that heads of the household in this province do not have any problem in occupation and their children’s education but still face with some economical and social problems such as Such as illiteracy, low education, lack of welfare, dearth of living facilities, and living in ghetto and down town.

The irrefutable fact about Central Asia as an import area in the international policy is that the region faces with diverse conflicts in the national, regional and international levels. Considering the fact that diverse hypothesis proposed in literature about the roots of these conflicts and challenges, this article aims at delineating these challenges during the history revolving around the seventy years of Soviet Dominance on the region. The researcher also underscored three prevalent challenging phenomena in the region which are follows: ethnocentrism, localism and fundamentalism. The study via general approach delineated this issue and elaborated how the Soviet Union during its dominance made new values and identity through destroying the previous ones and endeavored to stabilize its dominance in the region via diverse methods such as: making artificial bordering, gathering heterogeneous groupers in the firm of new republics, making new ethnic groups and Russian people migrate to the region and increasing the ethnical variety, letting residents and elites from one area dominated other groups and tribe, uneven distribution of opportunities and possibilities, attempting for making division between people and their past identity, having organized acts against religion as the root of traditional entity.The bottom line was that albeit the traditional sources damaged severely but no new identity was formed. Whereupon the identity crisis happened in the society, along with this problem other economical crisis, ethnical and regional discriminations provide the ground for more conflicts. Albeit at that time the Soviet government did not find any chance to appear, but after collapsing the government and facing with fiasco in obviating identity, economical, political and social crisis, such milieu provided the ground for some phenomenon such as ethnocentrism, localism and fundamentalism. The common feature among these phenomena was challenging the identity and national government at the national and international levels.

With the advent of modernism in Iran, Iranian researchers endeavored to find some answers for Iranian trend and closure to the achievement and modern attempts. Sometimes this phenomenon is studied from the sociology view point which is done sometimes through the political wittings or Ideological perspective and religious credos. This issue rarely studied from philosophical view point. In the article we aimed at reviewing this issue from Dariush Shayegan’s view point. Shayegan endeavored to separate the philosophy of west form Asian civilization. To him, Asian mystical beliefs are based on pieties and inspiration. But western philosophy related to secularism, materialism and all the realm of sciences.

This study aims at studying the role of Islamic Azad University in expanding doing research in the country. That is the qualitative research.Tables and combination of charts utilized in this research. These tables are described, compared and analyzed via gathering data, calculating five indices. These indices are as follows: the number of researchers, written articles, registered inventions, published books, and the costs of research contracts outside of the organization for all the unites and centers affiliated to the Islamic Azad University in 16 regions across the country and also Universities and institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology between 2005-2009. The results illustrates that 41percent of researchers, 11 percent of articles, 11 percent of published books, 21 percent of inventions, and few of research contracts during the Fourth 5-year-old Program allocated to Islamic Azad University. This result divulges the import and stupendous role of Islamic Azad University in the realm of research in our country. In other word it can be concluded that by and large, the country performance during the Fourth 5-year-old Program of development have not progressed but literally without Islamic Azad University the number of research papers would be even less than these numbers.