mohamad zahediasl
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"Life Quality" is a complex and multidimensional concept for which several various methods are presented to evaluate. While Scandinavian approach has explained it as objective condition, American approach has provided a definition of "life quality" in which people's understanding of their status is concerned. ...
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"Life Quality" is a complex and multidimensional concept for which several various methods are presented to evaluate. While Scandinavian approach has explained it as objective condition, American approach has provided a definition of "life quality" in which people's understanding of their status is concerned. According to the studies of Merser Organization in 2006, the index of "life quality" in Tehran is ranked as 177 among 215 big cities (metropolis). Accordingly, this research has been done to study the householder's "life quality" in Tehran and the relation of social capital with it. The research which was carried out in summer 2007 was done on 400 householders settled in different areas of Tehran. Using the questionnaire of the World Health Organization, "life quality" has been examined. The variations related to social capital, have been made through "Trust" and "Cooperation" categories and also made based on the researcher's expressions. Then they have been studied. Regarding different theories, the relation between four dimensions of life quality and both of social capital categories have been studied. The result has suggested that there are important relations between life quality and also its four dimensions with social capital. Besides, some suggestions are presented at the end of the article.
fariborz dortaj
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In order to investigate the causes of drug abusing and dependence on it among war injured, the Sample of 380 war injured with various kinds of injuries and levels were selected by random stratified method and asked via the questionnaire which contained 39 questions. This questioner evaluated 5 areas ...
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In order to investigate the causes of drug abusing and dependence on it among war injured, the Sample of 380 war injured with various kinds of injuries and levels were selected by random stratified method and asked via the questionnaire which contained 39 questions. This questioner evaluated 5 areas of individual, social, economic, educational-cultural, Familial and legal causes. To assess the causes, chi-square test and sign test were used. Findings show that individual, economic and educational-cultural causes in comparison with social, familial and legal facts have more vital roles in misusing and dependence on drugs among war injured. Moreover, results emphasize on preventive measures in order to avoid further misusing and dependence on drugs among war injured.
abolfazl zolfaghari
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This study is based on a survey which has been carried out to analyze the relationship among interpretations of religion and religiousness and it's dimensions. For measuring religiousness, the Glock & Stark Model and for interpretation of religion, William Shepard's Typology – which are appropriate ...
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This study is based on a survey which has been carried out to analyze the relationship among interpretations of religion and religiousness and it's dimensions. For measuring religiousness, the Glock & Stark Model and for interpretation of religion, William Shepard's Typology – which are appropriate for Islamic countries such as Iran- have been used. The study has been conducted with 707 male and female students of Tehran public universities in February and March, 2008. The survey has revealed that there is substantial relation between religiousness and interpretation of religion at 99% level of significance, so increasing or decreasing of religiousness makes different interpretations of religion. Moreover, there is considerable difference between secular students and other types of interpretations in ideological, experimental, consequential and ritualistic dimensions of religiousness. In other words other types of interpretations (Islamic modernists, radical Islamists, neo-traditionalists and traditionalists) have no significant difference in their religiousness.
abas asadi
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In this article researcher tries to respond how Inter press Service (IPS) as a third World News Agency has reduced the effect of domination of the Westerns agencies and showed reaction against Western News Agency. The method of this research was descriptive analysis and researcher used the library and ...
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In this article researcher tries to respond how Inter press Service (IPS) as a third World News Agency has reduced the effect of domination of the Westerns agencies and showed reaction against Western News Agency. The method of this research was descriptive analysis and researcher used the library and documentary techniques for gathering the information. Findings show that: Inter press Service (IPS) agency as an important agency of the Third World countries played a vital role among the international flow of news and dominant discourse. In other words, using some accessible facilities and by referring to basic concepts and method of Developmental- critical Journalism, also having independent news policy, this news agency could challenge Western News Agency and unbalance international information flow in the world today. In fact, the Inter press Service (IPS) agency can express the aspiration, ideas, demands and the efforts of the Third World countries in the international news flow.
hosein sarvari
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This research with aim of surveying the traditionalism discourse of music in contemporary Iran is studying the features and basic element of forming and genesis of this discourse. So with the historical genealogy and presentation of discoursal features of this period exhibit a semantic interpretation ...
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This research with aim of surveying the traditionalism discourse of music in contemporary Iran is studying the features and basic element of forming and genesis of this discourse. So with the historical genealogy and presentation of discoursal features of this period exhibit a semantic interpretation of that discourse. Regarding the perspective of Cultural Studies, genealogy manner and historical analysis of discourse, this article shows that how political, social and cultural context influence directly or indirectly that discourse . The consequences of this article are gathered by the help of modal way and by the usage of discourse analysis and historical genealogy. At the time the discourse is recognized against modernism discourses and formed in the shadow of political, social and cultural conditions of Iran. In that period, holding the international congress of Iran's music in 1961 and establishment of Preservation and Diffusion Center [for music] are considered as turning points for the formation of basic elements of traditionalism discourse.
alireza afshani
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Social trust is one of the most essential factors in making social order and capital. There are certain variables that can lead to the rise or fall of social trust, one of which, to many researchers, is religiousness. The present study was carried out to investigate the relationship between religiousness ...
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Social trust is one of the most essential factors in making social order and capital. There are certain variables that can lead to the rise or fall of social trust, one of which, to many researchers, is religiousness. The present study was carried out to investigate the relationship between religiousness and social trust in the city of Najafabad. According this, a survey research with the sample of 244 citizen (15 years old and over) of Najafabad were selected through a multi-stage cluster sampling method. The questionnaire was the main data collection technique. The findings show that there is a significant and direct relationship between religiousness and social trust. In other words, the rising of religiousness leads to the increasing of organizational, interpersonal and generalized trusts. The empirical data truly verify the viewpoints mentioned earlier by Durkheim and Giddnez.
ebrahim maleki
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This study investigates the representation of women in Lori and Laki Folk songs. Moreover this survey manifests how sociological concepts like realism, humanism and equality are represented at these songs. Research questions are formed in connection with recognizing the categories related to women and ...
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This study investigates the representation of women in Lori and Laki Folk songs. Moreover this survey manifests how sociological concepts like realism, humanism and equality are represented at these songs. Research questions are formed in connection with recognizing the categories related to women and sociological concepts. Our conceptual frameworks are based on Feminism critical Theories and sociology of content. Using qualitative content analysis of the single stanza in songs and summarizing method in analyzing of lyrics, it is feasible to create induction categories and reducing them into basic categories based on the main themes. Finally utilizing these basic categories, we analyze the contents and recognize the general model that underlies in the songs. In qualitative analysis of songs, all sociological concepts including realism, equality, human-centrism, collectivism that have a consecutive influence on songs have been shown. Furthermore the discussed categories in questions concerning women representation in the songs completely illustrate that there is a humanistic view towards women and also all of their rights are respected. Although most of the songs narrators are male, generally there is a non-gender language in songs. Another important finding is the historical background of many of these songs that may dates back to primitive, Matriarchy, and patriarchy era. Contrary to the most of the feminism theories, this part of popular culture (songs) not only is not against women, but also shows a higher position of women in pre history era (matriarchy).
