JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Year:2014 | Volume:8 | Issue:4|Papers Count:8

Social capital is one of the nation’s wealth and sustainable development, capacity-building instruments to communities, an arrangement for preventing and decreasing of social problems and a factor for social welfare plans success and promotion of individual and social today. With relation to rural areas development, Social capital play important role at the promotion of income, poverty reduction, management of resources sustainable, motivation promotion, active participation to decision-making, safety index promotion, empowerment and … in the rural areas. The aim of this paper surveying of social capital effects in the rural areas. Present research is applied and its research method is descriptive-analytical survey. Also at this research was selected the 197 inhabitant farmers in the rural areas of Meshkinshahar county by way random sampling through the medium of Cochran’s Test. Also research tool is questionnaire that its validity via different experts’ views was confirmed. Also research reliability was calculated by sexually from Cronbakh (a>0.83) formula. At the end results showed that the most important of social capital affecting varieties in the rural areas are component four such as (economical, interaction action, environmental and participation). Their variance and explained accumulated variance number is (61.16) by through of this four factor.

Happiness is a social phenomenon that has been studied from different standpoints by social theorists. This research seek to identification of Influential Factors in Social Happiness. for this, some sociological theories such as Durkhiems theory of Anomie, Ingleharts theory of Human Development, Gurrs theory of relative deprivation, Tov & Dieners theory of social trust, Simmels theory of individualism and Giddenss theory of Modernity has been applied. The instrument is Oxford Scale for measuring happiness that has been used after reliability test. The study population included people ageing between 15 and 65 resident in Khuzestan Province. And the sample size consist of 987 individuals that randomly selected by Cluster Sampling Method. The results indicate that Social Happiness is low among 1.9 percent of individuals. 19.5 percent enjoy high level of Happiness. And 78.6 percent have average amount of Happiness. Pearson’s correlation coefficient results show that significant relationship between interpersonal trust, religiousity and societal security whit Happiness is positive. While, relationship between relative deprivation and, anomie whit Happiness is negative. individualism and self-expression values hadn’t any significant relationship whit Happiness.

These studies have been carried out to evaluate the impact of ICT on organizational agility in Khuzestan public universities (case study: Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz). Validity of questionnaire was approved by comments of university faculty members and the reliability was approved by using Cranach’s alpha coefficients (a=0.96). Data were collected by researcher-made questionnaire. Statistical society of the research included 160 faculty members of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz which 114 of them were selected randomly with Morgan Table. Data was analyzed through SPSS and LISREL. The results show that there was no statistically significant difference between the views of academic staff with different major, age and work experience in organizational agility. There is significant relationship between external and internal variables affecting information communication and technology with organizational agility and also external variables have greatest impact on organizational agility.

Risky behavior one of the largest Problems Today is that causes serious threat to social structures, economic and cultural. The purpose of this paper is investigation of life quality effect on Students conduct security. This researches to comparative- analysis Method a done. Sample of 300 (156 female and 144 male students) were marvdasht of Islamic Azad University students the multi-stage cluster sampling method selected. Tool Collect Data risky behavior scale (YRBSS) and the world health organization quality of life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) has been. Data T.TEST test and Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyzes were. The findings showed that there was significant difference between male and female students in high-risk behaviors (p>0.001) exists. Boys than girls More to make risky behaviors and have lower quality of life compared to girls and this difference in level (p>0.05) was significant. Between boys and girls quality of life with their risky behavior there was a significant and inverse correlation.

Today developing countries to strengthen economic infrastructure - social, the elimination of regional imbalances and ultimately achieve sustainable regional development requires the identification and distribution of resources, facilities and resources are. According to the UNDP of Iran in this value is represented in terms of the Seconding group of countries is much. Position as the dominant form of human settlements and cities are developed. In contrast, the dominant form of settlement itself and its features is an imbalance in development. Like area Yazd city neighborhoods are imbalance on the inside. Thus, an applied research - development and review of the scope of the survey, followed by development and urban poverty neighborhoods in 50 metropolitan areas with GIS models and Yazd HDI. The study, conducted Present and analyze the results of the study show that both Hassan Abad, Kostargah and Forodgah district, the least developed and most developed Emamshahr and Safaei to say the least deprived in the city of Yazd.

Today in connection with the social and cultural development, the issue of quality of life and satisfaction with various aspects of their subjects is important Social development on the one hand and to the welfare of individuals raises, The Social Development has an important role in improving the lives of citizens. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of social factors on quality of life questionnaire based on the World Health Organization is in Mashhad. This research is based on a 2013 survey among women 15 to 45 years of Mashhad Metropolis ... Given the sample size of 391 patients based on Cronbach's alpha (70%) of the study, according to research conducted in the field of public health, women's most important cities Mashhad, The greatest concern for women's health problems, unfortunately, the average scale is lower than average. Test results showed that the correlation between quality of life and social capital (r=0.54), social status (r=0.53), age (r=0.51), marital status (r=0.40), educational level (r=0.32), employment status, (r=0.25) had the highest effect on the quality of life of women in the study population. Accordingly encourage community participation, public health facilities, mental, and social development services, enabling the creation, protection and promotion of domestic entrepreneurship workshops, encouraging higher education, the promotion of social capital and social security, increased ... to provide recreational space per plan.

In the present age, modern information and communication technologies such as the Internet and virtual social networks have significant roles in the lives of individuals specially the youth. Therefore, many social scholars have presented this issue that the Internet and virtual social networks can change individuals’ lives, but there are discrepancies regarding the quiddity of these changes and its direction (positive or negative direction); accordingly, the objective of the present study is to investigate this issue that whether the presence in Facebook social network causes users’ social isolation? Or whether it causes the proliferation of users’ social relations? The present study was conducted using a survey research and employing availability and voluntary sampling method. The data were collected using a researcher-made internet-based questionnaire. The population of the research consisted of the youth in Tabriz who used Facebook. The findings of the research indicate that there is a reverse significant correlation between the duration of membership, the degree of using, the degree of participation and activity, the purposive use of Facebook and social isolation, while there is a direct significant correlation between the non-purposive use (playing online games and watching pornographic pages on Facebook) of Facebook and social isolation.

The work ethic of individuals is undoubtedly one the most important factors affecting social development, and one the most influential factors of individuals’ outlook and behavior, is religiosity. Those of stronger religious orientations are probably more inclined to observe ethical standards and have a more responsible attitude toward work and their duties. Therefore, the present article aims to study the relations between the level of religiosity and work ethic among Eghleed’s employees of governmental organizations. The research method employed was survey and the research instrument was questionnaire. The sample consisted of 300 workers of 42 government organizations who were selected a quota sampling technique. Gelock and Stark’s multidimensional model of religiosity was used. Research results showed that the level of both religiosity and work ethic among the respondents were above the medium. Correlations tests showed work ethic was significantly related to the dimensions of beliefs (r=0.212), rituals (r=0.338), experiential (r= 0.165), and consequential (r=0.346). Path analysis showed that the path coefficient of consequential religiosity was 0.35, that of beliefs was 0.13, of rituals was 0.18, and of experiential was 0.02. All the independent variables could explain about 12 percent of the variance of the dependent variable.