JOURNAL OF SPECIALIZED SOCIAL SCIENCE
Year:2015 | Volume:12 | Issue:44|Papers Count:8

This is a comprehensive scientific research to determine the demographic factors affecting the tendency to use synthetic drugs, especially crack, glass and ecstasy among the students of the faculty of humanities in Islamic Azad university of Kerman, with the aim of controlling and preventing this social problem through the use of "Bourdieu" theoretical framework derived from theories of "Hirsch", "Merton" and "Sutherland". The methodology of the study is a survey and the data are collected through a questionnaire. 368 students were used as sample of study through stratified sampling method. The data were shown in the tables and graphs. The relationships between the data were analyzed through correlation coefficients and multivariate stepwise regression. The findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between the tendency of using the synthetic drugs as a dependent variable and family disputes, religious beliefs, policies, strategic plans and frustration as independent variables.

Family violence is one of the most important harms of the society. It consists of infant torturing, violence against women, sister and brother torturing. At this time, violence against women is examinable from different dimensions: physically, psychotic, social, economical and sexual dimensions. One of the public characteristics of violence against women is being hidden from public sights. It is tried in this research to answer the basic question that which social factors are related to couples aggressive behaviors? So, they are studied from three theoretic points of views: social psychological, behaviorism, psychoanalytic and cognitive approaches. The statistical population of the study includes women’s in Khoy city. For explaining the relations between these variables and violence against women, theories of social learning, defeat and disputing, feminism, order, contrast and productive have been used. This is a survey study and the required data were gathered among 315 people through multistage proportional sampling method. Also, explorative analysis is used for accounting Keronbakh Alfa. To analyze the data, statistical test, Pearson coefficient, average difference and ANOVA tests were used. Finally, the multiple regression analysis showed that independent variables could explain 56 percent of dependent variable changes.At this time, family violence had significant relationship with job responsibility, mate job, education, income, social status, direct violence experience during the childhood, defeat in needs, interests in religious tenets, and the way of mate choosing. However, the indirect violence experience has not had significant correlation with the childhood and number of children.

The aim of the research is to assess the influence of violent video games on the behavior of young people in the City of Kavar. The population of the research includes 570 male students in high school, of whom 230 students were selected as sample of study through Cochran formula by random cluster sampling method. Data were collected by researcher made questionnaire and the reliability of the questions was 0.71. The research data was analyzed in both descriptive and inferential levels and ANOVA, Spearman and Pearson's correlation tests. The findings of the research show that there was not a significant relationship between demographic charactrsitics such as age, education level, leisure time, family income and the violent behaviore of the students. It refers to the homogenous population and their same lifestyles. However, there was a significant relationship between game time, game type, game place and imaginations, class dependency, group games and the participation and the student’s behaviors. The results of the research indicates the relationship between the high involvement of young people in violent video games and abnormal behavior of them.

The aim of this research is to identify the types and dimensions of street harassment experienced by girls and assess the related factors (such as age, socio- economical status-social and individual confronting).The statistical population of the study includes all the students at Mazandaran University of whom 362 students were selected as a sample of the study. The data collection is done through a questionnaire. In this study, after reviewing the theoretical perspectives (conservative, liberal view/psychological, feminist) the feminist theories were chosen as the theoretical framework. The findings also show that the highest level of street harassment experienced by respondents in the past three months, respectively, consist of non-physical harassment, physical and sexual threats. Also, most of the experienced street harassment in this dimension, in include vehicle shoot (89.1), taunting (28.1), jog (21.9), and professional offensive and sexually requests (20.4). Also, according to the results of the regression analysis, individual confronting variable (B= 0.199) was the strongest variable. After that, the non-personal confronting and socioeconomic class are related with harassment variable.

The present study aims to assess the social factors influencing the type of crime committed by male offenders in Ardabil Prison. The theories and analytical models were presented using theories, including Durkheim (Social Anomie), Merton (Anomie), Hobbes (Social Control), Sutherland (Differential Association), Marx (conflict). This research is a survey and the data collected through the questionnaires. In order to enhance the validity of the questionnaire, face validity was used. The statistical population includes all the male offenders in Ardabil prison. They were 800 individuals of whom 260 individuals were selected by using simple random sampling method and. The data were analyzed using the statistical descriptive and inferential methods through SPSS software. The findings of study indicate that there was a meaningful relationship between independent variables of family income, socialization with the wrong people, family problems, religious beliefs, place of residency, anomie feeling, and type of crime committed by male offenders. In addition, the multiple regression results show that independent variable could explain 60% of changes on dependent variable.

The present study aims to identify factors which are related to social anomie of Ardabil suburb residents. Social control, cultural poverty and the culture of poverty are independent variables of this study. The main variable of this study is social anomie of suburb residents. The statistical population includes 10698 families of whom 371 families were chosen based on Cochrane formula and systematic random sampling method.This study is a survey and the measurement tool is correlation. The data collection was based on researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was calculated with content validity and reliability was calculated with Cronbach’s alpha. The results of the study show that the degree of social anomie depends on cultural poverty, the culture of poverty and social control and there was not a significant relationship between gender of suburb residents and the degree of anomie. According to step by step multiple regression results, the culture of poverty and social control could explain 11 percent of the changes in anomie of suburb residents.

This research was conducted to study the relationship between social anomie feeling and social stratification from one hand and the type of crime committed in Khalkhal city from the other side. The theoretical framework and analytical model were made according to Social Anomy of Durkheim, Opportunity Theory of Clourd and Ohlin, Transmission Zone of Park and Berjes, Social Stratification of Wilhelm Benger, Cultural Norms and Social Norms of Austin Turk, Marxist Theory, and Integrated Structural Theory of Calvin and Pauly. The research was done through survey method and data collected through the researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population consisted of 210 prisoners in Khalkhal of whom 136 individuals were selected via simple random sampling method based on Cookran's formula. Research results indicated that there is a meaningful relationship between feeling of social anomie and the type of crime; social anomie is at a level higher than average among these subjects. Also, there is a meaningful relationship between the crime type and social stratification. Findings showed that, firstly, crime is committed in all social classes and, secondly, individuals belonging to higher classes of the society mostly show a tendency towards systematic, white-collar crimes.

Nowadays, fear of crime has become a significant social fact. It seems to be of more importance than the crime itself. The authors of this article have attempted to shed light on fear of crime, some major factors affecting it and its consequences. A survey was conducted on a random sample consisting of 384 Ahvaz residents over 18 years old. For gathering the data, self report questionnaire technique was applied. Results showed that age, education, social capital, and relative deprivation were significantly related to fear of crime.