Hoda Rezaei Roshan; Ali Rahmani Firoozjah; Amir Mansour Tehranchian; Rezaali Mohseni
Abstract
attention to social progress and human development for the creation and sustainability of the economy, especially in developing countries, is of particular importance and highlights the need to examine the impact of social progress on GDP of these countries.The statistics on the Human Development Index, ...
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attention to social progress and human development for the creation and sustainability of the economy, especially in developing countries, is of particular importance and highlights the need to examine the impact of social progress on GDP of these countries.The statistics on the Human Development Index, the Human Development Index through the Social Progress Index, Capital and Employment Index, as well as GDP per capita in 104 countries are taken from the United Nations Development Program, the Social Development Index and the World Bank from 2014 to 2018, respectively.In order to investigate the effect of these variables on GDP, panel data method has been analyzed using Eviews10 software.The results of estimating panel data in the studied years showed that the impact of human development on GDP in two groups of middle to high income countries and high income countries is increasing and significant;Social progress in the transfer of the effect of human development to GDP in all four groups of countries has an increasing and significant effect;Finally, capital and employment have a significant increase in GDP per capita in high-income countries.
Sociology
Yaghoub Ahmadi; Salar Moradi
Abstract
In recent years and with the growth of the Internet and online social technologies, many questions have been raised regarding the type, quality and extent of social activities in the world based on social networks. Considering the influence of online social networks on recent elections from the year ...
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In recent years and with the growth of the Internet and online social technologies, many questions have been raised regarding the type, quality and extent of social activities in the world based on social networks. Considering the influence of online social networks on recent elections from the year 2009 until now and its following incidents, the present study aims to evaluate the effect of the social capital present in online networks on the citizenship culture of the citizens of Sanandaj. The method of the study was that of a correlational descriptive research and it employed a survey method. The questionnaire was comprised of Dmitri Williams’ standard questions and a researcher-made questionnaire for citizenship culture which had appropriate validity and reliability and was distributed to 400 respondents with the method of multistage cluster sampling. Findings show a medium of the citizenship culture average, and the focus has more been on civic engagement. From the components of civic engagement, the dimensions of attitude and belief were more regarded by the citizens rather than the components of behavior or action. The inferential results also show that the most important dimension of social capital influencing the citizenship culture is the bridging social capital present in the online space.
