Socio-Cultural Strategy
Year:2013 | Volume:2 | Issue:7|Papers Count:7

The subject of this article has an exploratory aspect and explores origins of theoretical evolution in contemporary sociology about this approach's classic scientists. Linguistic turn is the beginning of rethinking in classic sociology and is the basis of modern sociology theory. In this way, the importance of practice in relation of language and logical & historical relations of language and practice are studied. Subjectivity is a modern representation of social human which is dependent on contemporary philosophy. The methodology of this article is going to show the relation of concepts and thoughts of contemporary social scientists on the basis of linguistic turn. Foucault is the complement of this article that connects all of the reasoning of this article.

The problem of this article is social impact assessment of a decision to demolish the Rey bridge in south of Tehran to achieve social goals and improving quality of life in this district. Social theory with emphasizing the applied sociology in the form of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) has been applied to study this decision. Survey, documentary and qualitative methods also used to evaluate the decision and providing applied guides for urban management also practiced. The results of various branches of data analysis showed that demolishing the bridge has no real positive effect, and then, the urban management stopped it. The article shows that social knowledge could be applied successfully for improving urban management and decision making.

The main objective of the present study has been to identify and to analyze the influential social factors on alcohol use. The method of the study was survey and data collected through self-administrated questionnaire which its reliability was tested by Cronbach’s test and its validity was confirmed by Construct and content validity. The universe of survey included all students of Social Sciences University of Tehran. the results of regression analysis showed that variables such as social attachment, self-control, labeling had significant effect on attitude toward alcohol use and among all variables social attachment was the most important variable for predicting the attitude toward alcohol use.

This article's purpose is study of Islamic Azad University role on improving social movement of faculty members. Survey method and questionnaire are used in 33 branches of IAU in the country and 399 questionnaires are analyzed. The results show that there is an intergeneration and intra-generation social movement in the majority of the sample. There is not a significant relation between variables (gender, ethnic and religion) and intra-generation social movement but there is a significant relation in intra-generation movement between men/women and different ethnics. Job movement opportunities are equal after employment and unequal opportunities are about outer-organizational factors and before employment.

This article's purpose is study of Tehran state universities condition in changing process of knowledge to technology. At first the main and minor influential factors on changing process of knowledge to technology are recognized. Views of scientists and professional people in science and technology are studied and analyzed. The results show the undesirable condition of universities, it would require investment in this field to improvement of universities performance in change of knowledge to technology and the country's development and growth.

Development of computer and online games and their great impression on users, leads not only states and organization but also news organizations to using these games. News games like other computer and online games, that are now new types of narration in journalism, are changed to devices of soft war. It is anticipated that these games would have 10 percents growth in 2010-2014. The main focus of this article is understanding of news games concept, types, challenges and redlines in view of soft war.

This article's purpose is study of intergeneration value gap between families in Tehran. Theoretical framework is a mixture of sociological and psychological theories. For testing the hypothesis, 336 fathers and their children (girl and boy) in Tehran are surveyed by multistage cluster sampling method. The results show a value gap between generations. Value redundancy of fathers (0.37) and conflict of norms between generations (0.36) have direct impact on dependent variable.