JOURNAL OF IRANIAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (JISDS)
Year:2015 | Volume:7 | Issue:3 (27)|Papers Count:8

Today one of the most important aims of urban planners and administrators are to increase the quality of life in cities and the level of satisfaction among citizens. This is possible through planning to provide spiritual and physical needs, both simultaneously and equally among residents. This study aimed to evaluating the quality of urban life in old and new neighborhoods of Urmia. From research Methodology, the view point of this research is practical and the method is descriptive-analytical .In this study Initial necessary data of mental approach, has been collected by using a questionnaire based on Likert scale rating .The statistical population of the study are all heads of households in old and new neighborhoods in Urmia city which by a random sampling method and Cochran’s formula 331 heads of households in four neighborhoods, two neighborhood (Haft asyab and Yonjehzar) of old neighborhoods and two neighborhoods (Kouyekeshavarz and Zaminshari) of new neighborhoods are selected. To achieve the goals of the study and testing the hypotheses, descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, univariate regression and multiple regression, non-parametric tests of Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis are used. All analyses are performed by SPSS software. The results show from four factors that identified as subjective dimensions, the quality of economic aspects, from dwelling ideas the respondents living in the old and new areas studied is the most effect on quality of Mental. The results of calculating the overall quality of urban life show that the respondents residing in the new areas have better conditions and greater satisfaction with an average of 3.59 in comparison to the residents of the old areas with an average of 2.753.

Higher education plays an essential role in many aspects of development in all aspects. Students, faculty and scientific way of development of each country involved. Faculty members are involved in the development of this research. This study is an applied research survey was conducted. The study, based on existing scientific literature to extract the components of social development objective and quantitative data were assessed components of the study was also determined. Collecting this study, a structured questionnaire with 43 items that refer to the study and identification indicator of social development (Using the Delphi technique) Azad Armaki and colleagues (Armaki, Mobaraki and Shahbazi, 2012, 19) questions in the questionnaire was designed and developed. The study included 7250 people of all Ph.D. students of science and research that uses sampling table Morgan, 367 people were estimated to sample. The findings show that the faculty of social cohesion and consensus, the quality of life of citizens, increasing security, social security, and ethics in promoting social development and generally have a positive and significant role in social development and in view of the differences in age, gender and whether or not the respondent is a member of the faculty. The results indicate that faculty members in various aspects of social development from the perspective of qualitative and quantitative role and social development planning should not overlook the importance and potential of this segment of society in the development process of the operation.

This study aims to investigate the effects of anomie and Iran’s anomic status on social apathy among the citizens. The research method is survey, with a sample of 385 people from the citizens over 18 years old in Babol city. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire are respectively measured by the exterior validity and Cronbach's alpha (0.85) .The analysis of the findings show that social apathy exists more in women than in men, as well as with the increase in age and income the social apathy is reduced. There is a significant relationship between anomie and social apathy, so that the increase (or decrease) in anomaly, causes the social apathy to increase (or decrease). There also exists a significant relationship between anomie and civil apathy dimension but there is no significant relationship between anomie and altruistic apathy dimension.

Today, due to the position and importance of rural society for the countries' equal development and also refer to the problems and difficulties that these societies face, dedication for stable rural development and their cooperative social role for this development, seems necessary. Checking the role of executive organizations (government) to provide the social cooperatives for the rural development is the purpose of this research. According to the investigations in this research that has been modified with attributive and analytical methods, the results indicates that because of changes in governmental thinking, approach of attraction of rural social cooperation has changed, otherwise predicted programs are not match with the knowledge and insight of rural society and this process has encountered rural development with challenges such as migration, unemployment, evacuation of villages,…, despite of high costs that is spent for rural development by government and more amenities rather than past, but specially youth migration to big cities is growing.

One of the human needs is the need to express joy and happiness. Happiness can be defined as enjoying the satisfaction of the demands of public life or the life of the individual, including work, school, leisure, not having negative feelings such as stress, depression, etc. Happiness is not only a matter of individual and mental act, but it is produced by a mutual interaction with the community. In other words, it is created by social interaction of people in the business community. So various factors in Production network are involved in the production and increase and decrease in joy. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between social capital and joy among students. The target population consists of 9729 students who are studying in Tehran Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch. A sample of 300 individuals is selected by a systematic random sampling. The results show that students’ joy (55%) and their social capital (63%) are assessed in a good level .As a result, the relationship between social capital and joy is confirmed. The students who have higher levels of social capital are happier than students who have lower levels of social capital. The social space created between the students where new social relations in the new environment are shaped by the interactions of the student will become more joyful to students.

The modern Republic of Turkey following the quantitative and qualitative reforms aiming to reach a level of development changed some rules in the family field. These changes follow the policies of the United States of America and of the socialist countries of the Soviet Union, so that this process of transformation and development cause the family to face changes such as structure and exposure to changes in the relationship between family and the government. There also some change in the relationship between family members which is the result of legislative and political policies. The above mentioned factors are as the result of fundamental reform in the way of governance in Turkey since Ataturk, which aims to provide a European image of Turkey. Secularism and laicism are its derivatives which have created the starting point of influence in the family. This article tries to investigate the theoretical foundations and mechanisms in the field of family law enforcement in development era in Turkey.

Since one of the main pillars of sustainable development projects, is social participation, it seems that women have the potential and socio-biological factors to speed up the process of development. As far as education in order to empower women to participate in social contributions is considered a good option in achieving sustainable development. The women empowerment approach is considerable from different aspects, but this paper focuses on mass media, because the role of mass media in the development process is vital and can be studied today. This article examines the role of mass media in terms of increasing women’s participation in sustainable development with an empowerment approach and finally provides solutions using theoretical explanation.

This study aims to evaluate the performance of councils from the perspective of citizens, and to determine the success or failure in achieving the objectives and programs using the theories of social capital and social class. The methodology of study is quantitative and place in applied research field and a questionnaire is used to collect data. The statistical population consists of citizens of District 19 and a sample of 385 individuals is calculated using Cochran’s formula and sampling cluster method is used. The result of comparing the factors affecting the success of councils in statistical tests indicates the role of social capital as the greatest factor impacting the success of councils. Social trust, social cohesion, social participation and ultimately social class have been respectively effective in the success of councils. Therefore, the most effective factor is social capital and the least effective factor is social class social in the success or failure of councils. Comparing the result of factors such as social class and social capital show they influence each other and also the success rate of councils both is seen low from the perspective of citizens.