QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Year:2009 | Volume:- | Issue:45|Papers Count:8

In this article electoral participation was analyzed in 9th Iranian presidential election. The article claims that, the rate of electoral participation has problematic variation in the country's. Through critical reasoning, this paper initially tries to prove that electoral participation is a problematic event in Iran, and then considers the following research question: How can the degree of variations in electoral participation be explained in Iran?" In response to this question, based on theoretical approaches of Diamond, Huntington, and Lipset, the following hypothesis is proposed: "the higher the level of educational development, the higher the degree of electoral participation".In the next step, the research hypothesis was tested by regression analysis method. Empirical findings revealed that the correlation coefficient of electoral participation with educational development was equal to 0.69, and that the proportion of the variation of electoral participation that is explained was equal to.48.

This article attempts to compare the function of four newspapers (Keyhan, Ettelaat, Etemad and Etemad melli) in addiction control. The method of research was content analysis and some of the variables considered in this stady were: the name of the newspaper story styles, story subjects, story nature, attitudes toward addiction, types of narcotics in the title and lead that were published and reflected in these newspapers. The theoretical bases of the study was agenda-setting theory and gatekeeping approach.To analyse and copmare the functionality of the above - mentioned newspapers, the article studied all related news and contents that were published in four newspapers (Keyhan, Ettelaat, Etemad and Etemad melli) during June 26, 2006- June 26, 2007. Using Chi Square (X2) for the analysis findings show that thee is a meaningful difference beween the dependent and independent variables.

Advertisement as a dominant communicational factor in any organization plays a decisive role in the organization's success. M5 pattern, which has been regarded as one of the most popular advertisement patterns, consist of five interrelated steps: 1) goal definition, 2) budget allocation, 3) massage.formulation, 4) media selection, and 5) advertisement assessment. Although all of those five steps are important, thoughtful selection of a proper media is viewed as a precondition for goal attainment. The present attitude survey attempts at revealing those advertisement. related factors which contribute to positive decision making in regard to buying ticket or using services that certain travel agencies regularly offer. If proper media for presenting the massage is not selected, advertisement campaign will not lead to expected outcomes. For this reason proper media selection is regarded as a vital element of advertisement campaign. Having four dimensional pattern known as AIDA in mind the authors have carried out an attitude survey aimed at measuring the impacts of advertisement media on selecting travel agencies.

This paper was conducted based on a field study of two border common small markets located in Sardasht and Piranshahr. Data gathering instruments were questionnaires and interviews, Along with observation techniques. Findings indicate that: Border common small markets have created new jobs directly and indirectly, although more from the latter type. Besides, they have had positive effect on job mobility.Establishment of border common small markets also has led to an increase in the household incomes of the region: Although these markets have not reversed the current growing rural migration trend, they have controlled informal economic sector.Furthermore, These markets have supplied goods in response to the demands of the other regions and provinces rather than the needs of the region's residents.Some welfare indicators related to nutrition, health, housing and the environment have rather been improved due to these markets. However, leisure time has been decreased.Although border common small markets have led slightly to increasing economic security, they have not influenced social security. The study concludes that because of the limited diffusion capacity, border common small markets can't help scattered villages in a short period of time.

The Constitutional Revolution of Iran is a good subject for studing historical, cultural, social and political events of Iran from 1324 until now.Studying the Constitutional Revolution using the sociological theories, helps us better to understand its causes and consequences in different levels of the Iranian society. The theories of revolution try to explain why and how revolutions happen and what are their consequences. This article uses Marx's and Skocpol's theories of reuolution in order to explain the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. The study reveals that the neomarxist theory of skocpol can explain the Constitutional Revolution better than that of Marx.

Empirical research of Political violence and its relations with the political, economic, social and cultural variables is one of the important topics in comparative political sociology. This research utitizes modernization approach with a comparative method to examine the correlation between modernization and political violence among Muslim Countries Using the secondary data of quality of life index (QOL) as an indicator of modernization, and secondary data of political violence, the results of canonical analysis show the correlation between two sets of variables: First, there is a correlation between modernization and political violence, second, there is a high degree of correlation among cultural and economical variables from the set of quality of life (QOL) data with interwar variable from the set of political violence data.