Social Problems of Iran
Year:2011 | Volume:2 | Issue:1 (NEW SERIES OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES OF JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF LITERATURE AND HUMANITIES)|Papers Count:7

According to the rapid growth of urbanization in Sardasht city, this study aims to investigative the extent of urbanism of Sardasht city's dwellers and causes contributing it. From the determinism perspective, it is supposed that based on urbanization increase in Sardasht, its dwellers have the urbanism lifestyle, but it is not the same for all persons, and according to eclectic perspective, the extent of dwellers urbanism is different related to individual characteristics. For doing this research a survey method is used and the research findings indicate that most of people in Sardasht are in average level of urbanism. Also, there is no limited number of people who have low urbanism or in other words are urbanist no longer, and among people's characteristics, the age, living in village record and education level can properly explain the urbanism changes. This study is worthy since its results are useful for determining the condition of one of significant variables of development like urbanization and its consequences in Kurdish cities.

The present research, titled as a sociological approach on happiness feeling among family heads in Isfahan, in terms of controlling research conditions is a survey, and in terms of expansion and time is extensive, and cross-sectional, respectively. Research population consists of all family heads in Isfahan that were about 441782in year 1385, and the sample size based on Koukran's formula was determined as 394 people. Since more questionnaires were distributed, only 394 questionnaires were analyzed. The questionnaires that were designed according to the construct validity (based on the Coronbakh alpha) were distributed among different areas of Isfahan according to each region family proportion. A study in research questions and hypotheses leads to some results as indicated following:The mean of happiness feeling in range of (0-100) among family heads is 56.23 (emotional dimension 59.37, social dimension 55.42, and cognitive dimension 53.88), and among the background variables, the happiness feeling of family heads based on sex, marital status and job is different. Also, the social capital, satisfaction from regional facilities, the degree of benefiting from citizenship rights, the amount of role status (social, family, and personal effectiveness), and income have a direct correlation with family heads' sense of happiness. Consequently, the resulted model from effective variables, according to multiple regressions with step by step method, explains the 45 percent of happiness feeling variance in statistical population. Equally, benefiting from citizenship rights, role status and social capital have the highest impact on happiness feeling respectively.

The main purpose of this research is to study the root of problems of science institution in today Iran, by referring to the historical period of entering new Western Sciences to this country, and an attempt for understanding the intellectuals' ideology of this time toward the new coming sciences phenomenon by use of Discourse Analysis methodology and according to Post-colonial theoretical framework. The findings show that the primitive way Intellectuals encountered the phenomenon, and the formed ideology have directed them to a way not to ask about the principles of new sciences and the relation these sciences can create with traditionals. Also, paying attention to some sciences and ignoring some others, had an ideological bias. About Humanities it should be said that the study of human beings wasn’t considered as the subject basically, and since the goals and roles of Humanities were misunderstood, the Humanities could not have been created in this era.

Nowadays, development and planning based on city locals is at the center of attention for urban designers and planners. This requires an understanding of the needs and demands of citizens from their built environment. This study attempts by identifying neighborhoods residents' needs prepares a setting for a systematic planning between physical environment and social needs and consequently, improve the quality of life in neighborhood communities. Because of neighborhood structure and its great importance in Iran, Isfahan has been selected as the study field. The main purpose of this study is to present a model to evaluate the social and physical needs of residents in a neighborhood community. To do this, besides an interdisciplinary study with survey method, the Isfahanese point of view about physical and social needs and their hierarchy were achieved as well. Data collected from factor analysis were summarized into 8 factors. The findings from Freidman's test indicate that in neighborhood community level, the most important people's need is the construction of social discourses with others. After that the need to recreational facilities, infrastructures, hygiene and healthy environment, participation in running the neighborhood, appropriate shopping centers and public transportation, security and neighborhood sense of belonging are followed respectively. Generally speaking, the establishment of public environments as a context for social communications is an urgent demand. The neighborhood community needs model (NCNM) lightens the socio –physical features of city locals in Isfahan which can be applied for development and planning of other Iranian cities.

By collecting relevant studies to the street children of Iran, this study tries to classify and assess the associated family factors and outcomes of children streetization in Iran in recent decade. At the same time, these studies in spite of having a couple of strengths and weaknesses will be helpful in future researches.A secondary study with a systematic review method is used in this study. By searching Iranian and international databases, many universities and related organizations in Iran, 40 quantitative researches entered the study. Their data were classified and for some of variables with sufficient consistency, the findings underwent the Meta analysis.A few of street children in their families face with physical, sexual and psychological persecutions and a part of children's families are engaged with addiction, imprisonment and family disruption that show the influence of family factors on streetization of some of children. Furthermore, the cumulative findings related to the economic situation of children and their families; i.e., the 80 percent involvement of children in labor, the expansion of family, high growth of unemployment and low-income jobs, the low income, and education level of parents confirm the relationship between economic conditions and family poverty with entrance of children to the streets either. A combination of economical and unsuitable life conditions in family are among the most salient factors in streetization of children, although, the economic impact is heavier. In addition, the coming of children into street accompanies with physical, psychological, addiction, and crime, however, more research in this area is necessary.

In a general outlook, this article is about music and its sociological dimensions. The basic premise of this paper is that musical concepts and developments do not occur in a socio-cultural emptiness rather music is somehow a social and cultural construct. Among the various types of music that social groups tend to this article, has specifically assessed the Iranian youths' inclination to pop music and its associated social factors affecting them. To achieve this goal, this study adopted an integrated and a quantitative methodology approach by use of a survey and questionnaire. 200 of new incoming students at Tarbiat Moallem University, academic year 1388, were selected by multistage stratified sampling as the sample size.The findings show that there is a significant positive relationship between the concept of cultural capital and tendency to pop. While this suggests that there is no meaningful statistical relationship between religiosity and tendency to pop music index. In addition, there exists a direct and meaningful relationship between the socio-economic status (SES) variable and the inclination to pop. Gender doesn't differentiate among students' tendency to pop music as well. These results confirm that the most tendencies toward pop music among the young people are domesticpop, pop music recorded in abroad and foreign pop correspondingly.

Social problems of any society may differ from others according to its socio-cultural differences. Therefore, identifying, importance and priority of these problems is different with respect to time and local conditions in each society. As a result, recognizing and precedence of social problems is not the same in all societies.The current paper tries to present a sociological analysis on nature and priority of social problems in Iran. To do so, at first the identifying and prioritizing of social problems from different views are assessed and then based on constructionism perspective, the priority of social problems is dealt with from the public and governing elites' point of view. The study measured Data from four national surveys in a ten year period with 36429 respondents through a secondary analysis. Results showed that economic problems are on the top in Iranian society and after that, social problems is located. Exploration on Iranians' conception on importance and priority of social problems shows that there is no big variation among different groups of people, specifically, ordinary people and governing elites. Prioritizing of social problems in different social areas follows a special pattern as well. At the end, an orthogonal pattern from subjective and objective conditions for recognizing the importance and priority of social problems in Iran is proposed.