JOURNAL OF STUDIES OF SOCIO-CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Year:2014 | Volume:3 | Issue:1|Papers Count:8

Social capital is a form of capital along with economic and cultural capital by which the individual can access to the available resources and support within different groups and society. The main purpose of the present research is to examine the different levels of social capital among men and women. It is assumed that men and women enjoy differential levels of social capital due to the cultural and social differences and gender inequalities. The study is a secondary analysis based on the data gathered by Iran University of Medical Sciences, World Health Organization, Tehran Municipality, and Jihad Daneshgahi on 2008 within the project called Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool. The sample is 20670 people aged over 18 years old who live in Tehran. The results indicate that there are no significant differences between men and women in terms of family social capital. However, significant differences are found between men and women in the mean of peer social capital. Men enjoyed higher levels of peer, neighborhood, and total social capital compared with women.

The aim of the present paper is empirical and theoretical explanation of the relationship between the religious and self-actualization. This study is performed by survey method among students of Yazd University. Also according to Cochran's formula, the sample is selected using stratified method equivalent 272 people. Based on the results, the degree of religiosity and self-actualization are more between women than men. In terms of statistical, religiosity has a positive and significant relationship with self-actualization. Also among dimensions of religious, the Outcome dimension has the strongest relationship with self-actualization. To explain the relationship between two variables, structural equation modeling (SEM) is used, that impact factor equivalent 0.21, indicates a positive relationship between these two variables.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of family functioning on Vandalistic behavior among high school students in Javanrood city, Kermanshah province. Various perspectives about deviant behavior, vandalism and family functioning scales are reviewed and the MC Master Model is used to building the theoretical framework and hypotheses. Research method adopted is correlation analysis and survey. Participants are 357 high school students in Javanrood city. Data is analyzed by the SPSS software. The findings show that there is a statistical significant negative relationship between the three dimensions of family functioning (family roles, problem solving, and expressing emotional feelings) and the level of vandalistic behavior in high school students. According to multiple regression analysis, problem solving with -0.737Beta, emotional express with -0.692 Beta, family roles with -0.069Beta are important predictors respectively. The most important predictor of vandalistic behavior was problem solving in family.

Different requirements in various ages from one hand and generational differences on the other hand, due to distinctive historical experiences, have caused groups to have different tendencies, necessities and different trends in lifestyle. Therefore cultural policies for different groups are different and have been regards to these differences. This paper concerns on different lifestyles and the sense of necessity of different groups of ages among the 1st zone citizens. The question to this paper is: How is the 1st zone citizens’ lifestyle different according to different groups of ages? The results of this paper are derived from a survey with a probability sampling ad with the help of questionnaires in the named zone. Results show there are considerable differences based on groups of ages, including type of sports, the way of exercising, the amount of exercise, and the rate of using social and cultural programs, the desire of the content of the program, the desire to participation and the level of satisfaction of cultural and social programs.

Nowadays the attitude from investment of physical capital has turned into the cultural capital that represents the non-economic forces such as the so-called cultural capital, family background, social class, varying investments and commitment to education, different resources, etc. Cultural capital as the cultural competence bases, trends and ideas that define the most important mechanism in the reproduction of social hierarchy is considered.This study focuses on examining the impact of cultural capital and cultural capital on students' scientific study. Other goals include subjective aspects, objective and institutions. The study seeks to answer the question that how scientific and cultural capital affect students? The researchers sought to test the hypothesis that it is, is as follows: It seems that cultural capital through the mental aspects, objective and scientific institutions on students can be effective. The sample is 385 students from Tehran, allameh tabatabaee, beheshti and Azad universities. Results show that Pearson correlation coefficient equal to 0.566 the objective by a factor of 0.477 and the institutional dimension by a factor of 0.525 has an effect on students' scientific production.

This study assesses organizational atmosphere Amol Municipality and the important of its affect on urban management. Its population is all the municipality and affiliate organizations employees and 280 questionnaires are collected. The research method in this Study is analytical and descriptive. The data collection includes standardized questionnaires Halpyn and Kraft (OCDQ-1963) for organizational atmosphere. In order to examine the internal reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha coefficient is used (0.84). In Analyzing the data, Kolmogorov Smirnov test, t test and analyzing variance (ANOVA) were used. The result show that difference between organizational atmosphere of Amol municipality and affiliated organizations is significant (p= 0.000). Among the organizations studied, respectively, the residual (88.35±7.93) and the ICT (55.92±13.52) have the highest and lowest favorable atmosphere organizations. In terms of gender (p = 0.725), marital status (p= 0.268), age groups (p= 0.767), education (p= 0.587), work experience (p= 258) and employment status (p= 0.412) the results show that the correlation between organizational atmosphere and affiliated organizations Tehran Municipality there is no significant difference (p>0.05). Overall, the findings showed that the atmosphere Amol city (p=75.13) and organizations (p= 77.13) from the ideal distance (p= 100-128).

The main question of this paper is about the electoral behavior of university students, as one of the main indicators of political development, and the role of social on this matter. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between social networks and electoral behavior among the students of the University of Isfahan. Method of collecting and analyzing the data is survey method. This study was conducted on 174 male and female university students; To collect data, a questionnaire was used to validate the formal method, and its reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha and the data were analyzed using SPSS software under the Windows environment. The social network is divided into three dimensions, construction, interactive and functional, with regard to the three aspects of the electoral behavior of watching, medium and active it can be seen that the greatest impact of social network features and functional characteristics of the students had little impact on voting behavior.

The aim of this study is to compare the intergenerational preferences in developed, developing and underdeveloped provinces of Iran. First, preferences into social, political, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions totally among generations are compared. Second, the system of preferences is compared in developed, developing and underdeveloped provinces. The method of the research is survey and its technique of data gathering is secondary analysis from 5th Wave data of World Values Survey (2005-2008). The findings show that the most gap among generations is seen in social preferences and the fewest gap among generations is seen in preferences environmental. The most gaps among generations is always seen into social, economic and cultural dimensions in developed provinces. In environmental preferences the fewest gap is seen among generations in developed, developing and underdeveloped provinces of Iran.