Socio-Cultural Strategy
Year:2013 | Volume:2 | Issue:5|Papers Count:6

This article's goal is study of influential factors on corruption in the world by means of secondary analysis method. After classifying countries in two groups (corrupt & incorrupt), four group factors (cultural, political, economic and processing) are tested in 179 countries of world. The results show: the main difference of corrupt and incorrupt countries is lack of good governance index. In more religious countries corruption is in lower degree. Variables of processing factors have the highest beta coefficient and cultural factors have the lowest beta coefficient in explanation of corruption level. Influential factors on corruption, political factors and then, processing factors are more important than economic factors and religion in incorruption rank of countries.

Happiness is one of the most important positive emotions and pleasant affects, which influences the physical and psychological health of the society members. This article attempts to describe happiness as well as its effective factors. The relation of social capital (as a multidimensional concept/ construct) and happiness is studied in this article. This is a survey research through which 384 persons above 18 years old residing in the residential areas of Kerman city have been interviewed through multistage cluster sampling method. The data of 376 questionnaires was analyzed. The findings indicate that variables of strong social network, associational membership, social support, trust of institutions and sense of belonging have significant effects on happiness. In sum, the results of multiple regression indicate that the forms of social capital (structural & cognitive) explain 38 percent of the variances of the dependent variable.

Considering the importance of religious identity and piety in educational and training system of Iranian society and ambiguity of the relationship between Teachers and Students Religious Identity, this relation is studied in this article. The using questionnaire is extracted from Franciss scale's items for adolescents and Taleban scale's items for teachers, and in order to being used for students and teachers, items are changed, redesigned and retested. Statistical sample is consisting of 320 students and 32 teachers in city of Tehran and the relation of average of each class's religious identity and their teacher's religious identity is studied. The findings indicate: religious identity in all its aspects is higher than the average, but there is not a significant relation between teachers and students religious identity. Also there is a strong and significant relation between students' religious identity and their families' religious culture.

Some evidence indicate that there are various generation, political, cultural etc. gaps in current situation of Iran's society which can lead to social alienation; separation of values, norms and what so ever belong to social system. From functionalist view, religion is influential in improving relation of people and society. The purpose of this article is study of social alienation feeling in university students and its relation to piety. This article is based on a survey research data from a sample which is consisting of 370 students of Tarbiat Modares University. The findings indicate the high level of alienation feeling and also on the base of functionalistic theories of religion; piety is the decreasing factor of social alienation.

Professional ethics in advertisement is about using ethical principles by media and evaluates its impact on audience knowledge, view and manner and information ethics studies the using the information in media. Depth interviews (Delphi) is used to extract the parameters of scholars, experts, academics, policy makers and practitioners of the advertising industry and content analysis of advertising messages through mass media is used to determine the adherence rates. The result of this research is codifying of 14 indicators which derived from 128 primary indicators, which can be used for the Professional ethic principles.

This article's purpose is study of tourism and especially cultural tourism's role in relations of Iran and Azerbaijan. This article through cultural tourism approach in tourism studies indicates that cultural commons of these both countries can lead to sustainable tourism development. Quantitative method and interview with main well-informed people about tourism are used. The results indicate that cultural and social resources are the most important factor to attract tourists in both countries and the most important obstacle for these factors are political and state laws and unpleasant structures.