jafar torkzadeh; masomeh mohtaram
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The present research aims to study the relationship between the type of the organizational structure of university and the social capital of departments at University of Shiraz. The research instruments included the Organizational Structure Questionnaire (Turkzadeh & Mohtaram, 2011) and a researcher-made ...
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The present research aims to study the relationship between the type of the organizational structure of university and the social capital of departments at University of Shiraz. The research instruments included the Organizational Structure Questionnaire (Turkzadeh & Mohtaram, 2011) and a researcher-made Social Capital Survey, the validity and reliability of which were assessed and approved. Using random sampling method and a multi-case study format, 5 departments were selected from among all departments of the University of Shiraz. All of faculty members in each department (including 50 subjects) participated in the survey. The results showed that: 1. from faculty members’ viewpoint, the dominant organizational structure at Shiraz University was of a hindering type; 2. the social capital of the departments was at an average level, and there was no difference between the departments in terms of social capital; 3. The type of organizational structure predicted 53% of the social capital of the departments.
abolghasem fatehi; ebrahim ekhlasi
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The present study aims to asses the rate of social capital as well as the factors affecting it among female pre-university students of Shiraz. The research questions are: ‘What is the total rate of social capital among female pre-university students of Shiraz?’ and ‘What are the sociological ...
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The present study aims to asses the rate of social capital as well as the factors affecting it among female pre-university students of Shiraz. The research questions are: ‘What is the total rate of social capital among female pre-university students of Shiraz?’ and ‘What are the sociological factors affecting social capital?’ Using random and multistage cluster sampling, 400 students were selected. The data were collected through questionnaires. Theoretical framework of the research is based on social capital-related theories ofFrancis Fukuyama, Robert Putnam and Coleman.The results showed that the average of social capitalat individual and primary group levelsas well as institutional, organizational, provincial, and national levels is 59.8%. Among the three levels of the dependent variable, the micro-level of social capital has the highest average (70%). Furthermore, there was a positive and significant relationship between the independent variables of forms of identity, mental health, parents’ educational status, cultural capital and the dependent variable of social capital. The results also indicated that the rate of female art students’ social capital is significantly less than that of other majors. Moreover, students residing at expensive districts of the town demonstrated the lowest rate of social capital and the students residing at cheap areas demonstrated the highest rate.
Volume 2, Issue 8 , October 2011, , Pages 37-66
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Security is considered as the most significant necessity and the most essential base for existence and survival of human communities. In fact, if a person feels that no risk threatens his/her life, properties and health, he/she will achieve social security feeling. The purpose of this research ...
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Security is considered as the most significant necessity and the most essential base for existence and survival of human communities. In fact, if a person feels that no risk threatens his/her life, properties and health, he/she will achieve social security feeling. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between social capital as an independent variable and social security feeling among mothers of educable mental retarded children who are trained in Exceptional Schools of Islamshahr city in the education year of 2010-2011. In this research, social capital was assessed enjoying Putnam theory in three aspects of social relations, trust and participation in collective actions. And social security feeling was evaluated according to Chalabi theory in four aspects of property, life, group and intellectual security. Statistical population included mothers of educable mental retarded children who are trained in Exceptional Schools of Islamshahr city in the years 2010-2011. Since the number of statistic population was low, complete coverage of population (218 qualified mothers) were interviewed. The findings indicate the low level of social capital and social security feeling in the mentioned population. There is also meaningful and positive correlation between social capital and social security feeling. The results of regression analysis show that 38% of changes of social security are explained by independent variables as well. The results of path analysis indicate that the variables of basic trust and duration of marriage, the number of children and level of education have relationship with social security feeling.
Volume 2, Issue 8 , October 2011, , Pages 87-120
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Social Trust is a platform for social interactions and relations. To study social trust of war injured carefully, it were took in to account in three dimensions, internal group, external group and generalized trust. Also related theories of James Coleman, Antony Giddens, Peoter Sztompka, Claus offe, ...
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Social Trust is a platform for social interactions and relations. To study social trust of war injured carefully, it were took in to account in three dimensions, internal group, external group and generalized trust. Also related theories of James Coleman, Antony Giddens, Peoter Sztompka, Claus offe, Francis Fukuyama and etc were discussed.
Regarding this, a survey research with a sample of 319 war injured people (in three groups of 25-49%, 50-69%, and 70%) who was selected thorough proportional classification sampling method was done. Dependent variable is social trust and independent variables are religiousness, universalism, expressional interactions, social-economic status and percentage of injury. Results of research showed that generalized trust of repliers, regarding to two other dimensions; trusting within and between groups is few lower. As a conclusion war injured revealed average level of social trust. There is significant correlation between social trust and other variables such as religiousness, universalism, expressional interactions, social-economic status and percentage of injury.
Volume 2, Issue 8 , October 2011, , Pages 153-188
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The theme of this study is the impact of social capital on quality of life of student. Quality of life is an important issue which first attracted intellectuals due to widespread deployment of technology and industrialization process in Western countries.
Historically, scientists and researchers have ...
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The theme of this study is the impact of social capital on quality of life of student. Quality of life is an important issue which first attracted intellectuals due to widespread deployment of technology and industrialization process in Western countries.
Historically, scientists and researchers have sought effective factors on quality of life. Not unknowing such factors not only causes unexpected, harmful outcomes but also lower life satisfaction among individuals and communities would hurt productive and capable human resources along the time. Universal acceptance of the theoretical literature denotes improvement of social capital will lead to expected life quality and prosperity.
In this study, the survey method is used to collect data from 374 students of Shiraz Islamic Azad University. After testing the research hypotheses, results reveal that the variable of social capital with dimensions of and social trust, social participation and social networks, has direct correlation with quality of life.
Volume 2, Issue 6 , May 2011, , Pages 129-174
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Media have strong presence among people as significant socialization factors in the current era. The results of studies show that there is a critical relationship between the amount of TV& newspaper consumption and social assets of citizens. These mentioned media can be very influential in changing ...
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Media have strong presence among people as significant socialization factors in the current era. The results of studies show that there is a critical relationship between the amount of TV& newspaper consumption and social assets of citizens. These mentioned media can be very influential in changing the amount of social capital.
In this paper the relation between amount of social capital and media consumption of Tehran citizens is investigated. The main issue of this study is to understand whether watching television and reading news paper cause any changes in the level of social capital? Referring to media effects theories such as agenda setting, cultivation and Putnam and Stone social capital theory and by using survey method this relation was studied among 600 literate Tehran citizens who were selected by the usage of random sampling method.
Results show that television gathers individuals together and is a factor for reinforcing the relations and interactions between members of a family. Trust in television and newspaper is a factor for attracting audiences to these media and being influenced by their messages.
Findings indicate that there is a relation between media consumption and social capital. In another words as the amount of media consumption increases, the amount of social capital promotes. Finally television as the main media of Iran with its widespread coverage can have positive influences on social capital and its elements through various outlets and programs.
Volume 1, Issue 3 , July 2010, , Pages 73-111
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In the recent decades an effective factor on success of organization is knowledge creation which has been taken in to account by many scholars especially in management field. Regarding that, in this article we try to comparative study the level of knowledge creation between Isfahan and Isfahan Medicine ...
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In the recent decades an effective factor on success of organization is knowledge creation which has been taken in to account by many scholars especially in management field. Regarding that, in this article we try to comparative study the level of knowledge creation between Isfahan and Isfahan Medicine universities and the effects of factors such as social communication, organizational culture and social capital on it. Due to this a survey was conducted on a sample of 288 professors of those two universities. Using F and T test, besides path analysis (applying Amos graphics for calculating their coefficients), findings indicate that average of knowledge creation in IsfehanUniversity is more than IsfehanMedicineUniversity. Secondly due to the results of path analysis, the effects of social communication, organizational culture and social capital on knowledge creation are significant and these variables can explain 35% of changes of dependant variable.
Volume 1, Issue 3 , July 2010, , Pages 203-239
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Studying various theories and perspectives towards district development in recent century entirely indicates the priority of social culture of district to the other of its aspects. Considering features and concept of district based planning shows that this perspective instead of expert interfering with ...
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Studying various theories and perspectives towards district development in recent century entirely indicates the priority of social culture of district to the other of its aspects. Considering features and concept of district based planning shows that this perspective instead of expert interfering with simple hypotheses is based on process and communicative programming and step by step it is with making capacity, social capital and people participation in an attempt for social communication, accelerating and enabling.
In this research after studying related theoretical concepts, we consider the capacities of social capital in Firozsalar district of Gokan city in the East Azerbaijan province in the framework of possession base perspective. Our dependent variable is willingness for participation which is a prerequisite for district base planning. The other capacities of social capital are independent variables. The survey was conducted among sample of 94 residents of Gokan.
Results show indicators of social capital have high correlation with willingness for participation. Also there is a negative significant correlation between evaluation of district's problems and dependent variable. Security (with coefficient of 0.81), social coalition (with coefficient of 0.665), social trust (with coefficient of 0.669) and evaluation of district's problems ordinal (with coefficient-0.19), show casual effects on willingness for participation. As a whole evaluation of social coalition in relation with neighborhoods and trust in all aspects (such as interpersonal, institutional and generalized) indicates that internal coalition has led to decrease generalized trust in Firozsalar.
rasoul rabbani; seyed ali hashemian far; salakeh shirazi
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Modern world is evaluated by the researchers and experts as the world of changing; meaning old experiences and methods are no more capable of answering organizations' problems and issues of the present and future, therefore, new organizational modern-structured strategies are required; organizational ...
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Modern world is evaluated by the researchers and experts as the world of changing; meaning old experiences and methods are no more capable of answering organizations' problems and issues of the present and future, therefore, new organizational modern-structured strategies are required; organizational entrepreneurship strategyis one of them.This paper aims to study organizational entrepreneurship in the organizations in Iran, and to evaluate entrepreneurship grade of the managers graduated in humanistic within Arak's industrial organizations. Survey method was applied as the research methodology, and questionnaires as the tools for collecting information.In analyzing the data, Kendal statistical tests revealed a statistically significant relationship between education and organizational entrepreneurship, and Pearson statistical test showed a statistically significant relationship between innovation, organizational structure and social capital, and the dependent variable of organizational entrepreneurship. Regarding the fact that these correlations are nonlinear, apositive strong relationship between the three independent variablesmentioned,and organizational entrepreneurshipis found.Results revealed that most of managers in organizationsstudied are at alow level regarding organizational entrepreneurship; only 18.60% showed a strong tendency, 19.20% showed an average tendency, and 62.20% showed a weak tendency towards organizational entrepreneurship. This may be because of the mechanical structure ruling most of organizations studied, preventing innovation, creativity, risk taking, and therefore organizational entrepreneurship. Hence, in order to create and facilitate organizational entrepreneurship, a flexible structureis needed, alongside with organizational trust,and an increased social capital,in order to set organizational entrepreneurshipas a culture. Furthermore, managers of organizations should be committed to organizational entrepreneurship. and apply it as an appropriate strategy and support the organizational entrepreneurs, in order forthe survival and growth of their organization in today's competitive markets.
Volume 1, Issue 4 , May 2010, , Pages 93-134
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The goal of this essay is analyzing of Sociological status and role of family in the Success of Volunteers in Konkor. Main Hypotheses consider relation of family’s cultural, social and economic capital to the success of volunteers in exam. Regarding this 150 of excellent students of Medical, Electricity, ...
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The goal of this essay is analyzing of Sociological status and role of family in the Success of Volunteers in Konkor. Main Hypotheses consider relation of family’s cultural, social and economic capital to the success of volunteers in exam. Regarding this 150 of excellent students of Medical, Electricity, Law of Tehran University (2004-2005) were selected and asked through self made researcher. Spss soft ware helps us to analyze data.
Findings manifest that Capital, economic and cultural capital of students’ family have significant role in their success -good grades and acceptation in top fields.
Volume 1, Issue 4 , May 2010, , Pages 167-197
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This research aims to study the effect of social and cultural capitals on the participation of women in nongovernmental organizations.
In this research, the indices of social relations, social trust, and interaction norms have been used to assess social capital. The indices of embodied, objectified, ...
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This research aims to study the effect of social and cultural capitals on the participation of women in nongovernmental organizations.
In this research, the indices of social relations, social trust, and interaction norms have been used to assess social capital. The indices of embodied, objectified, and institutionalized cultural capitals have been used to evaluate cultural capital.
The research is based on survey method. The statistical population is comprised of 80 females of 19 to 30 years old working voluntarily in the nongovernmental organizations for labor children of Tehran. The samples of this research were selected by random classification method.
The data were collected using a questionnaire, and analyzed statistically using descriptive and inferential methods.
Findings demonstrate that there is a meaningful correlation between social and cultural capitals and participation rate of women working in governmental organizations, i.e. any increase in the social and cultural capitals of women improves the participation rate of such women in NGOs, and vice versa.
mohammad mehdi fadakar davarani
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In this paper, we focused on collaboration in the social network of Qanat. The comlex relationships between Qanat users, including owners and other villagers, can be a source for creating social capital in rural areas with Qanat. This paper demonstrates that Qanat has an importat role in Iranian civilization. ...
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In this paper, we focused on collaboration in the social network of Qanat. The comlex relationships between Qanat users, including owners and other villagers, can be a source for creating social capital in rural areas with Qanat. This paper demonstrates that Qanat has an importat role in Iranian civilization. As a sample, it is completely described how vallaigers in Davaran (A village in Kerman) manage the affairs related to Qanat. The research was carried out in a village with Qanat, namely Davaran, and a village without Qanat, namely Ferdosie. These two villages were chosen since it seemed the diffrence between water resources influenced all social areas. 300 participants in Davran and 150 participants in Ferdosie completed a questionnaire including social capital scale as an independent variable and some dependent variables. Research findings show that with regard to social capital, there is a significant diffrence between the two villages that were analyzed. Mean social capital of Davaran is more than mean social capital of Ferdosie. Also findings show that regarding social capital, there is a significant diffrence between Qanat owners and others in Davaran.
