CULTURE IN THE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY
Year:2014 | Volume:4 | Issue:2 (11)|Papers Count:7

Objectives: This article intends to identify the cultural, social and political activities which are displayed in Tehran state universities websites and attempts to analyze their effect on formation and development of student’s islamic-iranian & revolutionary identity. Method: The method of the survey is descriptive and is categorized as applied research group. Results: The results of the study indicate that Tehran state universities websites pays more attention to the components of islamic-iranian identity in comparison with revolutionary identity components. The results also show the behavioral indicators in islamic identity –which is a reflection of values and religious ceremonies in a religious society-have a more demonstration in comparison to land index; Although land indicator is also including values and traditional ceremonies of iranian identity. Conclusion: The author of the article concludes enrichment of cultural, social and political activities will conclude in formation and development of islamic-iranian & revolutionary identity in universities websites.

Social trust is one of the key elements in achieving sustainable and holistic development in the communities. Many factors can be involved in the realization of this concept. The concept of society members’ religiosity is one of them. Objectives: The present paper intends to study the social trust of the students and the role of religion in the development of the concept of society members’ religiosity. Method: The method of the present study is survey method and is conducted by using a questionnaire with 401 students as sample among students of Tabriz University in 1392-1393. To fulfill the process, stratified random sampling method is used. For data analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple regression was used. Results: Findings of this paper suggest that there is a positive and significant relationship between religiosity and social trust. That is, the increasing religiosity leads to an increase in social trust. In addition, the results indicate a significant positive relationship between social trust (institutional trust, interpersonal trust and generalized trust) and dimensions of religiosity (ritual, experimental, and outcomes). The results also show the intermediate mean score for the social trust of students. Conclusion: The authors of the present survey conclude the highest average is allocated to an interpersonal trust among the social trust dimensions. Also based on research results, social trust is mainly affected by the ritual aspect of religiosity.

Objectives: This survey concerns the effect of “find out the talent” program (broadcasted from “I and you” one T.V. channel)on life style of Tehran university students. Method: The method of the research is survey and questionnaire. The method is also included cronbach, s alpha and snowball sampling. 35 questionnaires are used and the result number is 0.939 which indicates the high authenticity of questions. Statistical test of the research is chi-square. Results: The results of the study indicate a significant relationship between the effects of this program (find out the talent) and different aspects of Tehran university student’s life style. Conclusion: The author of the survey concludes the crucial function of cultural bases of each society in developing the media knowledge and literacy. To be aware of the effective factors of media mechanism will result in negative consequences reduction. Critical thinking is the fruit of media knowledge and literacy. The author of the article suggests a special T.V. channel for broadcasting music production programs in iranian national television organization.

Objectives: This article intends to analyze the effect of student’s publications on developing the cultural identity of Qom university students. Therefore the main variables of cultural identity which are analyzed are religious believes, values, norms, language, cultural heritage and art. Method: The method of the survey is correlation and structural trading model. The statistical community of the research included university students of Qom state universities (22099 persons) and 384 persons were selected random-stratified as the sample of the research in accordance with Cochran formula. Data collection is through questionnaire based on a 5-point LIKERT with three divisions: demographic information, cultural identity and students publications. data analysis included: 1-descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage, average and standard deviation. 2- interential level using LISREL software. Results: The results of the study indicate the rate of multiplier effects of contents of student publications on the cultural identity of Qom university students is 0.80 and the rate of multiplier effects of contents of student publications included religious believes 0.70, values0/95, norms 0.90, language and cultural heritage 0.80 and art 0.79. the rate of multiplier effects in the area of notification was 0.62 and in cultural area 0.73. Conclusion: The author of the article concludes student publications have the high potentiality to influence on the cultural identity of students based on developing values, religious beliefs and cultural heritage.

Objectives: The present study aims to Analyze the thought provoking architecture based on islamic vision and analyzes the effects of peoples believes and thoughts on the areas of architecture. Method: The method of the research is descriptive-analyzes and includes two parts: first of all the indicators of thoughtfulness are derived from the holy Quran. Second part is analyzing the indicators and comparing them with architecture planning. Results: The results of the article indicate the theory and principals of the holy Quran is free from the limitations of place and time and therefore the proper advantages of the mentioned principals depend on the abilities of the architect. Conclusion: The author of the paper concludes some concepts on thinking process which ore referred in the holy Quran might be the framework in planning the provoking architecture.

Objectives: This study aimed to identify the relationship between thinking style and competency of managers in research based organizations. Method: The sample of the present survey included 228 ACECR managers from all around of Iran which were selected through stratified sampling. Two kinds of instruments were used in this study: one which constructed by researchers on the basis of cultural elements to identify competency and TSI to assess the thinking styles. Results: Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed three factors for competency that are profession, personality, and values. The results indicated that competency is on the average; especially in profession and the personality competency. Also there are positive significant correlations between competency and global, hierarchic, anarchic, and external thinking and negative significant correlation between competency and internal thinking. Regression analysis showed that competency was predicted by hierarchic thinking and incompetency was predicted by internal thinking styles in ACECR managers. Conclusion: The author of the article concluded due to the possibility of manager’s competency anticipation by the means of hierarchic thinking styles and internal thinking styles; the researcher is able to make usage of mentioned variables in selecting the managers.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence of college and religious students. Method: The population of this study included all college students and religious students in the city of Ardabil during the academic year 2012/2013. The sample size was 160 people (including 80 college students and 80 religious students) who were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling. To collect the data, the Spiritual Intelligence Scale of King and Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire of Petrides & Furnham were used. Method of Cause-a comparison and analysis of the data, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used. Results: The results of the present survey indicate a significant differences (p<0.001) between two groups in terms of total scores Spiritual Intelligence and also in subscales of critical existential thinking and personal meaning production. In other words, religious students have more spiritual intelligence in comparison with college students. Also, among two groups of college and religious students, in terms of emotional intelligence scores no significant differences were found. Conclusion: The results shows, differences between the two groups on spiritual intelligence, are not limited to Frequency of religious students, the rites and religious behavior. Instead, religious students in mental abilities related to spiritual intelligence, particularly in the critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, and even in terms of means in ability to stretch out in conscious state, have gained higher scores than college students. The authors of the paper conclude strengthening this both intelligences (spiritual and emotional intelligence) among these two impressive groups will result in a powerful and effective community.