JOURNAL OF STUDIES OF SOCIO-CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Year:2015 | Volume:4 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

Cultural development is both an effect of development and a ground  for the emergence of development in all other dimensions supporting the aspects of development directly in the society. In the Islamic and religious society, the nature of its cultural values consists of divine teaching, religion and culture,has a close and overlapped relationship withreligion, and is the pulse of culture in religious and Muslim population. In other words, Islam, as the conclusive and single religion of a specific culture claims to be capable of responding to all types of human needs. Thus, the goal of this research is to discuss its claim that by benefitting from the spiritual and insightful atmosphere of religious and Islamic texts such as NahjolBalaqe and by using the strategic indexes and cultural categories proposed by Secretariat of High Council of Cultural Revolution, the research studies the theoretical goals and indexes of cultural development and elevation in the light of quotations remained from Imam Ali. In this respect, the research used literature and documents reviews and being inspired from the summons, letters and statements quoted from Amirolmomenin Ali, the research determines and defines indexes of morality, rationality, justice, identity, assets and social discipline, unity and integrity, mental and national independence, cultural commodities and services,  physical and mental health, international interactions, human dignity and freedom and family. Flowing the religious teachings in Moslem’s culture, the research ascertains that the Islamic Ommat will recognize its real dignity and glory and will achieve the higher stages of progress and flourishing in both material and spiritual dimensions.

Jeans are the popular garments worn by men and women from different ages in Iran. For religious Iranian garments, Jeans have special meaning in the mind. Meanwhile, it seems to have some values of Americanization and Westernization. The main hypotheses of this study are: 1. Religious have used American jeans. 2. Religious Iranians have used Jeans with different colors, models and Brands. 3. The meaning of Jeans wearing is different in different locations. This research questions is, "why do the religious Iranians follow Western values in their garments that are against their own values?" This research is based on the book by John Fiske for understanding popular culture. Qualitative research method and in-depth interview as the technique of research used by the author. Participants have been selected from two areas in East and North West of Tehran's mosques. They were asked of their meanings of wearing jeans through the interview. For example, people who attended in Sharake Gharb Grand Mosque used more original brandJeans than those who were interviewed in Resalat Mosque who Frequently have been wearing fake Jeans. Jean's Connotations for Jean wearers in SharakeGharb Grand Mosque was fashion, modern, high class personality and for jean wearers in Resalat Mosque was just an ordinary clothing, just because of fashion and durability. Finally, none of the participants considered Jeans as a popular American goods.

The present article aims theoretical and empirical explanation of the relationship between Religiosity and Sports participation. This research was done with a Survey and 380 students of Yazd University in 93-94 academic year were selected by method of harmonic proportion as participants according to Cochran formula. Exams of validity and stability were high. According to results of research, level of women religiosity was more than men, but men have had morepartnership in sports than women. There is a direct and meaningful relationship between religiosity and Sports participation and in between, the components of religiosity were considered that dimension has the most powerful relationship with variable of Sports participation. According to regression results, five dimensions of religiosity totally explained 32%of changes of Sports participation.

ICT has benefits, and high potential for rural development, so that the development of ICT in rural areas, leads to increased rural incomes, higher quality of life for villagers, urban and rural equality in service delivery, and increased power of villagers to influence government policy. This paper aims to investigate the role of ICT role on social development in the rural areas. This research purpose is developmental and from point view of identity is descriptive and from point view of type is analytical research. The research population was comprised of 180 Villagers selected through a systematic random sampling method (192n =). SPSS software was used to analyze the results. The population of this research contains allrurals that have had an ICT office. The sample size was determined based on the Cochran formula. The tools used to measure research questions were a questionnaire and inetrvierws. The content and face validity of the instrument was specified after several times review and correction by the faculty of members at university and several expertise of administrative offices. The Cronbach’s alpha values for reliability analysis was conducted and for the various sections of instrument were estimated to be between 0.87 and 0.92. The results of research showed that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between social consolidation, satisfaction, social participation, employment, and responsibility, access to social services, life quality and enforcement of educational infrastructure and using of ICT services. Finally, based on the results analysis, some implications have been provided.

Under the influence of urbanization, socio-cultural and economic factors diversity change of the people lifestyle. Preferences of people demonstrated in leisure activities, clothing, nutrition, body management, architecture and interior layout is smart homes. This study aimed to examine social factors, cultural and economic impact on the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the villages, which have become a city in Khorasan Razavi Province khaf and Roshtkhar. Theoretical research based on theories of Ibn-Khaldun, Bourdieu, Giddens and Cheney have been developed. Survey was used to measure the research questions. The results show that lifestyle changes in Nashtifan and Salami influenced by cultural factors and economic factors have caused in Jangal. The findings show that there was a significant relationship among participation of social, political and administrative organizations, ways and means of communication network, the spirit of individualism, identity and relationships, indirect and secondary classes as agents of social, cultural and educational facilities, media consumption and cultural capital as cultural factors, consumerism, shopping, tend to speculative interests, fading joint support economic prosperity as economic and lifestyle factors.

The aim of this study is to measure the bio-environmental effects on the development of mass-tourism Tameshkelvillage (Tonekabon) located on the north of Iran. This study measures the attitude of the host and guest community and the objective documents. The area of the present study covers 18 villages,2481 households, and 9024 people who live in Neshtai district in Tonekabon. The method used for this study is a survey with random sampling. More than 190 households lived in 9 sample villages and 180 tourists responsed to the questionnaires. The data were gathered and analyzed by parametric statistic tests. The results show that the development of tourism and the poor management in the local villages have negative effects on the natural resources destruction, the misusage of farmland and gardens and the increase of environmental pollutions.The results also clear that based on the attitudes of host and the guest comunition and the objective documents and lack of effective programings caused negative results on the bio-environmental tourism in the area.

Happiness is one of the major psychological needs of humankind and because of its significant influence on the life of humans, it has always drawn the attention. Happiness is the primary material for transformation, revolution and evolution of human life and is subject to several social factors. Among the social factors influencing the happiness level of the youth, social capital and its dimensions may be mentioned. Thus present paper seeks to study the relationship between social capital of the youth and their level of happiness. The present study used a survey technique and a random sample of 384 young people in the age range of 18-30 in Tehran in 2014. Data collection instrument was a researcher-developed questionnaire which had face and construct validity (KMO = 0.81) and a reliability coefficient of 0.73.Findings of Pearson’s correlation test showed that there was a direct significant and positive relationship between social capital and its dimensions and happiness level. The extent of social participation had the most strong relationship (r=0.548) with the happiness followed by social trust(r =0.435) and social cohesion (r =0.331).The results of the present study suggested that social capital dimensions accounted for 25 percent of variance in happiness in a way that social participation and social cohesion respectively had the most and the least influence on happiness; among background variables, age and marital status also had significant relationships with the youth happiness.

The success of developmental interventions depends ontheattention paid to its social backgrounds due to itscomplex and multiple nature andpeople’s reactions against its effects. Social impact assessment (SIA) defined as a step by step management of developmental plans’ impactsto reach sustainability especially social dimensions and its purpose is a level of development that minimizes the cost and maximizes the benefits of planned interventions on human societies. Participation of people has an axial role in SIA and shows conditions that people are ready to cooperatewith developmental plans.Thus, assessment requires understanding people’s viewpoints that affected by developmental interventions and socioeconomic and political context of these interventions. The presentstudy aims to investigate the philosophical and theoretical foundations of SIA and analyzes its role on increasing people’s social partnership and empowerment, applying stakeholders’ knowledge and information, dialogue, negotiate and transparency in project management and conflict management among different stakeholders. The results show that this participatory approach tries to create a good interaction among social system actors and increases their influential power on the local and national relations in developmental programs that resultinsuch an area leading to more human and sustainable development in community.