JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY STUDIES
Year:2010 | Volume:2 | Issue:5|Papers Count:8

The purpose of this study is the examination of the relationship between quality of work life and social alienation among secondary high school teachers in Tabriz. This study is a survey study and the population is 13274male and female high school teachers in Tabriz in 91-1390 educational year. Sample size is 373 using the Kukran formula and stratified sampling methods. Data were gathered using questionnaires of quality of working life which was adopted from Walton’s questionnaire and Seaman Melvin social alienation questionnaire which are reliable using Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation test, t test and one-way ANOVA were used. The results show that there is a meaningful correlation between the quality of life and social alienation. Also there is a meaningful and inverse relationship between the quality of working life and each of the social alienation dimensions except social isolation. It means that low quality of working life enhances the social alienation dimensions among teachers.

Work ethic is a cultural norm which gives positive moral values doing good work in the community. The purpose of this article is to review and understand the work ethic and organizational factors that influence it. This research employs survey method and uses questionnaires. The selected target society has been employees of state universities in Tabriz with a sample of 274 people. After extracting and analyzing data and producing of statistic indexes (indicators) for independent and cumulated variables of the research, the result show that the least and the most work ethics of the sample people are 2.9 and 5 respectively. The degree of work ethics of studied employees is 4.21. Also, the work ethics of 4.4 percent of the population is in low level, 52.1 percent in intermediate level and 36.5 percent in high level.Eventually 22.7% of respondents have considered the organization management style as autocratic, 53.6% as moderate and 23.7% as participatory. In this way the popular management style in university has been assessed as moderate. In this research there is a positive and meaningful correlation between the work ethics and job satisfaction justice (fairness) and organizational commitment and also a negative and meaningful correlation between work ethics and organization alienation and autocratic management style.

One of the important outcomes of the development of world economics has been quick destruction of natural resources and ecosystem of the world. Some feminists believe that ecology is a specific feministic issue and they created something which can be called “ecofeminism”. Before the advent of western exploitation and western sciences, natives had close and friendly relations with the world nature all over the world. Natural forces commonly were considered feminine as they were manifestation of productive powers of vegetation and reproduction.There was a feminine principle that is woman’s specific relations with the nature through production and reproduction, giving birth to a baby, feeding babies and keeping them safe during their growth. This feminine principle was a guarantee that natural environment should not be abused, but it should be attended to and put into operation with care. However, this relation with the nature and natural resources was severely damaged with the advent of western exploitation. And the feminine principle was overturned. Nature which was still considered feminine turned into a passive resource. The overturning paved the way for environment destruction, overuse of the earth and harmful expansion of technology. The only way out of this crisis was to reestablish primitive relation of women with the environment and promotion of returning to the nature. In this way, ecofeminism came to existence. For this reason, ecofeminism is an effort to overcome the shortcomings of the main stream of sociology to respond the ecosystem problems which the world is grappling with. This theory tries to overcome the methodological reductionism of the main idea of feminism by considering the necessary usage of multi-reasoned explanations in studying the superior and inferior relations, and it has thus turned into a promising theory to overcome some methodological, epistemological and ontological shortcomings of feminism.

Sociological study of literary works is one of the methods in the sociology of literature in which the structure and content of literary work and its relationship to the structure and changes of a society that the work is born are considered. In this method the society, the work and the artist are discussed and evaluated which have a live and inseparable relationship with each other. From this, the relationship of works in that period of time and social conditions and social status of writers and readers are analyzed in sociology of literature. In this paper, relationships between aesthetic and subjective structure as a creator of collective consciousness in Mohreyeh Mar novel have been studied using Goldman’s method of genetic structuralism. The results show that the author considered the confrontation of capitalism with Marxism in 1344 and has drawn the form and the content of the story as the consequences of capitalist alienation, disenchantment and class tensions. In this way capitalism is introduced as an obstacle to class consciousness in society that is showing aesthetic and dialectic struzture of snake vertebrate with collective consciousness.

This research tries to answer this question that what kind of factors may influence the social commitment among students? Accordingly, hypotheses from theoretical views of functionalism and interactionism of Koshman, Bloomberg, Becker, Parsens, Mathew, and Ziac, and also the previous studies and researches have been extracted to describe social commitment. The research method is the survey, and data were collected by questionnaire. The documentary method is also used for collecting of theoretical texts and experimental history. The statistical society in this research is all students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz who are totally 27037 students from whom 400 students were selected as statistical sample using Kokran formula and variance obtained from pre- test questionnaire. The sampling in the first step was randomly classified by which the samples were divided into faculty and gender of respondents among different faculties of university. Then simple random method was used to determine the sample among students of faculties of university. Pearson correlation coefficient, mean difference test (t-test) and one – side variance analysis test used were used for hypotheses testing, and to determine social factors related to the rate of social commitment, the multiple regression analysis was used. The result obtained from hypotheses testing shows that there is a significant relationship between social satisfaction, gender, age and type of faculty as independent variables, and social commitment as dependent variable of the research.

This study has been conducted on the basis of the quality-orientation of staff and its role in promoting the quality of educational services in Islamic Azad University of Bonab branch. The variables of this study are customer focus, innovation, steady approach to the ideal situation, the importance of appearances, employee’s patience and fortitude, group-orientation and goalorientation and its relation to the quality of educational services. The sample population of this study is students and staff of Islamic Azad University of Bonab branch in 89-90 educational years. According to the results the coefficient B in regression test of the hypotheses in this study 434%, so it can be said that about 43% of the changes in dependent variable is explained by the changes in dependent variables. All research hypotheses with related tests and with .05 errors of measurement and 95% confidence level are confirmed statistically significant.

The concept of social capital includes the capital and the sources of the institutions, the relations and the norms that show the quantity and quality of social interactions in a society. Due to its nature and content, this concept can be used in theoretical analysis in different fields that the field of social deviances is one of them. Based on the complex nature of the social deviances, social capital as a basic device has a high capability to determine and interpret the social problems such as social deviances. Concerning the reciprocal influences of the social capital and the various problems of the society especially the social deviances and the method of their presence in the lives of the social actors, this study offers a definition of the social capital and discusses the relationship between the social deviances and the social capital regarding the research results.

The identity is considered as the soul and directions of components of the society. Results of some studies indicate that there are serious challenges in national identity in one hundred years. Also today, the relationship between the media and the national identity is considered by scholars and thinkers. The research method is measurement and correlation and a questionnaire with Alfa coefficient of 0.82 was used to collect data. The sample population is all students on 90-91 educational years. Five hundred students were selected by stratified sampling. Data analysis is conducted by descriptive statistics which includes: frequency tables, mean, variance and testing hypotheses, r Pearson, the mean difference test and variance. The results show that there is a meaningful relationship between the using of media and national identity. The use of media increase national identity and the use of mobile and internet decrease it. National identity does not show meaningful differences based on residency and educational fields and also they are identical between male and female students.