JOURNAL OF IRANIAN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (JISDS)
Year:2014 | Volume:6 | Issue:2 (22)|Papers Count:9

The aim of this research is to investigate the management social power and its relationship with clientele satisfaction in agencies in Khalkhal city. The dependent variable is clientele satisfaction and the independent variable is management power which is indicated by variables: the dimensions of legal power, bonus power, expertise power, compulsion power and authority power. In order to investigate the clientele satisfaction in Khalkhal city, a sample of 330 clientele is selected by a proportionate quota sampling technique. The research method is survey and a questionnaire is used. The findings show that there is a significant difference between socio-economic base and gender with clientele satisfaction and there also is a significant relationship between management power and clientele satisfaction in agencies in Khalkhal city.

This research investigates two major aims; studying the necessity and quality of giving religiosity indicators appropriate for social positions and surveying the impact of indicatory and dimensional weighting of religiosity on measuring religiosity rate. The study was done through using two library and survey methods. These surveys indicate that measuring researchers of religiosity rate have underestimated indicatory and dimensional weighting of religiosity. Although library studies and research reviews reveal that religiosity models are relative according to -religiosity contents, the conception of religious amplifiers and political-social structure of any society. A researcher-made questionnaire was applied to collect data from 339 sample population. The results revealed that conducting the technique of indicatory and dimensional weighting of religiosity affect the religiosity rate in different dimensions as well as total religiosity. The implementation of the technique also changed significantly the impact of independent variables on religiosity rate as its influence was observed in the descriptive area of the religiosity dimensions.

The aim of this study is to investigate the position of cultural synergy in social development of the country. In today’s world that the cultural assimilation is fading away and the existence of various cultures is enriching the cultural pluralism. The cultural synergy is among the most important factors which can lead to sub-cultures enactments and different cultures in the process of social development in Iran. Cultural synergy is an appropriate approach in social development in Iran which is a combination of different cultural approaches. It also leans on the interactions of different cultural approaches with identity and social unity preservation. It considers differences as much as similarities and reflects the cultural co-existence off all members of society and its role in social development of the country. Cultural synergy can enrich the inter-cultural dialogue and social capital and social development of the country.

The expansion and complexity of today’s human society has made the existence of mass media in the sphere of social interactions, an inevitable issue. The image we create in our own minds is a symbol of our recognition of observable facts of life. The aim of this study is to explain the changes of lifestyle in the process of modern technologies’ development. Theoretical frameworks of Toffler, Simmel, Bourdieu and Giddens are used. The results show that using modern modes of technology such as tools of information and communication technologies lead to the emergence of a particular lifestyle and create a different value system. Therefore people would act differently and follow different patterns in spending leisure time, marriage style, religious behaviors and fashionism.

The quality of life and peoples’ satisfaction of different dimensions of life have gained more and more importance in accordance to social and cultural development. Social development improves the level of welfare on one hand and creates new problems such as commotion, sound pollution, psychological pressures and son on the other hand. So the issue of life quality gains importance. A phenomenon in the modern world is women presence in public sphere which puts them in a problematic position regarding the quality of life. The goal of this study is to evaluate the effective factors on the quality of women’s life in Isfahan. The research method is survey and a questionnaire is used. From all women aged 20 or mare, a sample of 510 is selected by a cluster sampling technique. In order to evaluate the quality of life a 6 factor questionnaire is used which is formulated by the World Health Organization. The independent variables are social capital, income, family dimension, job and matrimony. The questionnaire had exterior validity and the Chronbach’s alpha was 0.7. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between life quality and social capital (0.51), social base (0.38), matrimony (0.33), income (0.31), jab (0.25) and education (0.19).

Culture is a complex issue which has a critical role in social, political and economic stability and dynamism. Considering the critical role of culture, it provides the political leaders a series of opportunities and threats. Therefore, the role of educational institutes’ development especially higher education toward culture is critical. This research tries to resolve the role of higher education institutes’ development toward culture and cultural invasion. The research method is predicative with a qualitative approach in the philosophy of education. In order to resolve the role of higher education institutes’ development toward cultural invasion, the concept of culture and cultural invasion is expressed first and then the role of higher education institutes’ development is being analyzed. The results show a threefold strategy; recognizing goals, means and modes of cultural infiltration, conducting strategic cultural plans, criticism and expanding cultural elements.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the modern visual media’s role and effect on life style. In order to do so, a theoretical framework of theorists such as Mitchell, Simmel, Bourdieu and others is used. The research method is survey and a researcher-made questionnaire is used for gathering information. The statistical population is all students of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research branch in engineering, basic sciences and humanities colleges which are a total number of 9729 students in 2013. A sample of 370 students is produced by Cochran’s formula. The research findings show that utilizing the modern visual media leads to the emergence of a particular lifestyle in which people have different worldviews. These differences will lead people to act variously different in any situation i.e. people will obey different patterns in leisure time spending, marriage style, religiousness and fashionableness.

Social capital is among the most important elements for development and conjunction, security also is, one of the basic needs and characteristics of each community’s quality of life and sustainability are indebted to the preservation and conservation security. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social capital on Social Security is a survey method. The theoretical framework of the theories of Giddens and where the emphasis is on theoretical Volkak and Narayan. The population is men and women in the age group of 18-45 years old, which is arranged using Cochran’s formula, 410 were selected as the sample size. The data using a multi-stage random cluster sampling was collected. ANOVA results show that there is significant difference between the educated respondents with Social Security. Test results show that the correlation between the number of children, social participation and social capital within the group as the independent variable has a significant relationship with social security. Regression variables based on family ties, community involvement and activism have impact on Social Security.