JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY STUDIES
Year:2013 | Volume:5 | Issue:18|Papers Count:8

The purpose of this study is to determine the social factors associated with fashion among students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz. In this study, 376 students were selected through multistage cluster sampling method. Statistical methods that include Pearson correlation, t-test, F test and multiple regressions provided by SPSS version 20.Cronbach's alpha reliability R (80.0) as well as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test with a significant degree of (0.029) shows normality of the data. The results show that there isn’t a significant correlation between the rate and the influence of domestic mass media and fashion (0.74). However there is a positive and significant correlation between the use and influence of foreign media (satellite, internet) and fashion (0.022). Also, there is a significant and positive correlation between the influence of reference groups and fashion (0.007).Among the reference groups, there isn’t a significant correlation between the elite (0.126) and Clergymen (0.270) and also there is an inverse and significant correlation between religiosity and fashion (0.028). Finally, there is a significant and positive relationship between demographic variables of gender (0.004), marital status (0.00) and the economic and social databases (0.23)) and fashion.It can be concluded that marital status, reference groups and the use and influence of foreign media (satellite, internet) have the great amount of share in predicting the fashion variable.

This paper studies the relationship between the amount of new media (Internet) and the commitment of young generation (students) to social values. To do this, definitions of values, social values, internet, and commitment to values were provided, and then theories of social values and mass media were evaluated. Also, explanatory views of media and social values as well as internal and external perspectives were discussed. The population of the study is master students between 22 and 40 years old in Islamic Azad University of Tabriz (Science and Research, East Azerbaijan) in the second semester of the academic year (92-93). The research method is survey and a questionnaire was used to gather data.The results show that, there is a significant and inverse relationship between the enjoyment of internet and appearance, affinity and kinship, social class, modern and traditional standards of coverage, religiosity and particularism. Also, there is a direct and significant relationship between the use of internet and social relations between boys and girls, legalism, wealth- orientedness and accountability.These results suggest that the internet as a media which has specific audience, have influenced students’ social values.

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the use of foreign media and the changing of reference group of female students in Islamic Azad university of Uremia. The population of the study is the whole students of Azad university of Uremia (12466) among whom 376 students were selected as sample of the study using Cochran formula. Stratified cluster sampling method was used as a sampling method in the schools of Azad University of Uremia.The results show that there is a meaningful difference between the use of foreign media and life style of their users and the change of reference group. Also, there was no significant difference between background characteristics, social and economic status, educational incentives and news with the use of foreign media.

The aim of this paper is to clarify the constitutional position of great spiritual leaders who had comparative- historical nature in seventy years of Mashroteh either officially or unofficially. This has been done by using information gathered through the study of literature, texts, references, various documents and first and second hand sources whether written or non-written. Also this study is to investigate these elites’ effect on the political and social changes of that time and the role of ruling power. Through the social changes our society was despotic, underdeveloped and nomadic, where king was the only power and people were illiterate and popular, but Qajar kings required gaining the approval of religious scholars and clergymen (who were one of the most influential groups in the society after Safavids) in order to have political legitimacy. At that time political power was legitimated only with the support and approval of clergymen and despite the revolution against these functions, because of the lack of strong central government and the absence of a standing army they could not make fundamental and structural changes in Iran. In Pahlavi’s time clergymen were totally excluded from political legitimacy.

The subject of the present study is the examination of social factors related to the tendency of high school students to the reference group in Ardabil. Statistical population of this study is 13584 students and to determine sample volume, Cochran formula was used and 400 students were selected. The research method is survey and data gathered by a questionnaire which was validated by some masters and senior expert students (as criterion validity). Also the reliability of the questionnaire estimated using cronbach alpha. The obtained findings show that there is a meaningful difference between tendency to the reference group and variables such as religiosity, academic achievement, social status and gender of students. Also, there isn’t a meaningful relationship between tendency to the reference group and variables such as social participation, management practices, and the use of mass media. The results of regression analysis indicate that, the variables of academic achievement, social status, gender of students and religiosity stay in the above-mentioned model. Elite group with 32.3 percent and athletes with 27.8 percent, were selected the first and second reference group respectively, and economic group with 3.32 percent was chosen as the last reference group.

The goal of this research is the examimation of the relationship between employees‘ conceptions from dimentions of work ethic with job satisfaction and job stress in technical training organization of Tabriz. The sample of this research was 216 workers including 124 men and 92 female. For data collection three questionnaires including work ethic, job satisfaction and job stress were used. Data collected were analyzed with correlation and regression analysis. Results show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between employees‘ conceptions from work ethic and job satisfaction. But there is a negative and meaningful relationship between employees‘ conceptions from work ethic and job stress. The results of regression analysis show that three aspects of work ethic that are interest, preserverence and diligence and healthy relations at work are significant predictors of job satisfaction. Also, other regression results show that two aspects of work ethic namely interest and preserverence and diligence are significant predictors of job stress.

The aim of this study, as two earlier essays, is the study of collective identities in Iran. This article refers to the public identity. The study was carried out on the basis of grounded theory. The theoretical approach of the research is based on the ideas of Bernhard Giessen and Samuel Eisenstaedt about identity. The race, language, ethnicity, religious and denominational affiliation are the main elements of primarylian identities, while the customs, conventions, behaviors and cultural characteristics are influential indices of traditional identities. Religion was one of the most important sources of public identity up to the emergence of modernity. In today’s world modernism became also the source of public identity. The reaction against modernity as a source of public identity was heavy in traditional societies. Moreover, the factors such as gender and class affiliations, educational level, social class and lodging are influential on the reaction of people against modernity. The findings of the study show that, the Iranian society consisting of different identities reacted strongly against the modernity. This resistance developed in the 1960s and 1970s into a mass movement and led to the revolution of 1979.

Nowadays Human resources are the main capital in every organization and company and for this reason the study of job satisfaction is very important. The purpose of this study is to estimate the employees‘ job satisfaction and influential factors on it in the East Azerbaijan Province Gas Company in 1388/2009. The research method is survey and the statistical population was all the Company's Employees (1041) and the sample size consisted of 342 employees. A questionnaire (minesota) was used to gather the necessary data.The research model combines thearies of Maslow, Brophy, Mac Cleland and Herzberg and the independent variables were extarcted. The results show that, on average, the level of job satisfaction of employees was 69.7. Also, among dependent variables, variables of satisfaction of amenities, education and team work, elimination of social needs and conflict ambiguity of role, have more relevance with the job satisfaction of employees.