JOURNAL OF IRANIAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (JISDS)
Year:2015 | Volume:7 | Issue:2 (26)|Papers Count:8

The significance of globalization process is determined to be a dynamic development in the world’s society’s economic relations in current decades that appear in inputs such as FDI, foreign trade. These questions remain what the economic growth influence on social contexts and promote the quality of life in the human societies. This study used time series database from 1982-2012 of Iran based on a documentary and historical research of Iran. The findings demonstrate the effects of FDI on foreign trade. The rise of GDP and economic growth rate of Iran is accompanied by the inflection that these results are due to petroleum and other raw materials sales, not from investment in different sectors of society. The estimates suggest that the above social development indices of Iranian society are relatively improved by two components: health index, education index during the past three decades. But these estimates suggest that per capita income index of Iranian society is not a considerable improvement in the past three decades. So, we can see a very weak trend in decreasing GINI coefficient Richest 10% to Poorest 10% after the revolution in Iran, but this decreasing is not considerable and idea.

New social networks as a medium have an important role in creating an open and wide sphere for its users especially women. The methods used in this research include methods of documentation, field study and survey. The data collection is executed by observation, interviews and questionnaires analysis techniques. The statistical population is female students at University of Tehran in faculty of social sciences and the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch. The theoretical framework of this study is a compilation of Habermas's public sphere and communicative action theories, computer communication interface, use and satisfaction. The results of data analysis indicates a change in user individual, emotional, family and social behavior under the influence of the and the use of social networks, as well as the type of user activity in this space. Also the type of user activity in this space has a role in communication understanding. This means that users using a common language and concepts could discuss in this space and follow their communication purposes. In this study, the hypothesis of increased skills, from the hypothesis of personal and social characteristics and the role of education in changing behavior are confirmed. Finally, according to the results, strategies such as idea shift in planners and government officials to limit the space and take advantage of new social networks, eliminating the negative attitude of toward the network users, set up local sites similar to Facebook in Iran with the same charm and functionality, youth public education and their families, etc. are provided.

Social sustainability is one of the related concepts to sustainable development which was considered in the development programs of many countries since 1960, but because of lack of consensus about its components as well as its position among other parts of sustainable development, each country has applied its own perceptions. In this study, social sustainability components of fourth and fifth development programs in Iran have been analyzed in the context of sociological theory by the use of content analysis method. In addition, target groups in the development programs and the kind of policy to support them are evaluated. According to the findings, the dominant approach in these two programs is basic needs approach that considers needs like employment, health, housing and nutrition. Villagers have attracted the most attention in both programs, followed by low-income and women, especially female-headed households. Marginalized, workers, youth, children and the elderly are other important target groups respectively.

Social development is a process the enables different social groups to actively participate in society. Organizations play an important role in this regard. Concepts such as job satisfaction or its antithesis job alienation are significant issues in this regard. The Agricultural Jihad Organization as a public institution and a major agent of economic and social activity is an influential factor in social development. The aim of the present paper is to study the effects of certain social, cultural, and organizational factors in the alienation of the staff of Isfahan Agricultural Jihad Organization. This is a survey research which used a questionnaire to collect the needed data. The theoretical framework of the research is based on the theories of Melvin Seeman and Talcot Parsons. The research population included all the staff of Agricultural Jihad Organization of Isfahan city of which, based on Cochran’s formula, and 119 individuals were selected as the sample. The validity of research instrument was confirmed via face validity and its reliability Cronbach's Alpha was 0.767. The results showed that the level of alienation among the staff was a bit below the average (2.62 out of 5). The results also showed a significant relationship between alienation and age (r=-0.328), employment promotion (r=0.398), organizational commitment (r=0.311), and organizational justice (r=0.360). No significant relations were found between alienation and religiosity, gender, and marital status. Multiple regression analysis showed that the independent variables could explain39.9 percent of the variance of the dependent variable.

This study tries to evaluate women’s cultural development effect on family functions. It has two dependent and independent variables accompanying the assessment of the effectiveness of independent variables on the dependent variable. The research method is documentary and survey with a questionnaire technique. The sample size includes 150 married jobholder women in district 10 in Tehran. Among the independent variables, an increase in level of education, with a total direct and indirect effect, has the maximum weight of 1.066 on the dependent variable. The result of this study confirms the hypothesis of a significant relationship between women’s cultural development and family functions with a calculated variance of 0.54 at 0.95 confidence level. And so with that, women with higher education levels and financial independence and having cultural development experience a change in attitudes, behavior and way of thinking which affect the family function. It should be noted that in addition to the cross-sectional tensions due to reduction of their traditional roles in the family, with regard to peace and human dignity and legitimate rights of the family and society, they gain better abilities to train and guide the children as well as family conflicts settlements as in the past their rights would not be violated.

This study tries to evaluate the justice indices in economic business corporations in order to provide strategies for promoting justice. In this study the aspects of social justice approaches that have been discussed, such as equality, need, fairness and economic individualism are analyzed and policy approaches and its areas including health, education, economy, social security, welfare and housing, which is clearly one of the socioeconomic policy making are discussed. Because the research is in line with the outlook of most enterprises, providing quality services to employees and promoting the welfare of employees and their families, it tries to identify the criteria of justice and equity indices promotion strategies in the first place and secondly it is an exploratory and practical study which attempts to identify the justice factors while recognizing the equity indices, the results can be determined as strategies to improve equity indices. The research method is survey with a structured questionnaire to collect data and statistical population consists of members of the cooperative state-owned enterprises and data analysis entails two parts of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results show that the level of satisfaction or the achievement of equality and equity in economic firms are rather moderate.

The particular character of social cohesion is its collective nature which solidarity is the guarantor of their unity. For this reason, forms of correlation depend on different kinds of community. In different circumstances, cohesion is determined by external variables. This research evaluates the virtual social networks.The method is documentary and survey and statistical population consists of 15000 Payam-e Noor University students in Ardabil. To obtain the sample, Cochran formula is used. The sample size is 250 people. The unit of analysis in this study is individual. In this study, disproportionate stratified cluster sampling method is used. The findings of this study indicate that the correlation between student social cohesion who use social networks is significant and t=-2.003. The exchange of information without censorship hypothesis is confirmed with 0.279 coefficients. In the use of social networks hypothesis correlation with 0.306 is confirmed. The cultural interaction hypothesis is confirmed by correlation 0.322. In hypothesis two groups of users of social networks no significant differences are observed between their social cohesion. The hypothesis of social and cultural interaction with the characters, there is no significant difference. There is no significant difference in students' interactions inside and outside the country.

Childbearing is an important phenomenon in the population movements and sustainable development for countries that have low levels of substitution. The purpose of this study is to investigate the social factors affecting tendency toward childbearing with survey method. The theoretical framework is constructed based on Esterlyn centered thoughts and theories of Habermas and Stark Glark. The population consists of all men and women in the age group 45 to 25 years old. 380 individuals are selected as a sample size using Cochran formula. Data required is collected by multistage random cluster sampling. Questionnaire validity is assessed by calculating Cronbach's alpha and coefficients using factor analysis, and then using descriptive statistics method, correlation of each variable with social security is assessed. In Pearson correlation coefficient' test, there is a significant relationship between independent variables such as gender socialization, parenting problems, social participation, access to food and religiousness with tendency toward childbearing. According to the regression, variables such as gender socialization, the number of children desired, collaboration and religion have an impact on tendency toward childbearing.