mohsen neizi; mohammad ganji; mohammad karkonannasrabad
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Internet, as a media, with an astounding growth in recent years has had significant impacts on human social life. The present paper aimed to investigate the role of internet on users’ social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces. The bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital in cyberspaces ...
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Internet, as a media, with an astounding growth in recent years has had significant impacts on human social life. The present paper aimed to investigate the role of internet on users’ social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces. The bonding and bridging dimensions of social capital in cyberspaces and non cyberspaces were focused. It was a survey study and the research instrument was questionnaire. 313 subjects were selected by stratified random sampling method from among the students of ShahidChamranUniversity. The results showed that therewas a significant and positive relation between duration of using Internet and societal using of Internet with social capital (bonding/bridging) in cyberspaces. Therewas also a significant and negative relation between duration of using Internet and social capital (bonding/bridging) in non cyberspaces. Therewas no significant relation between societal using of Internet and social capital (bonding/bridging) in non cyberspaces. Moreover, therewas a negative and significant relation between social capital in cyberspaces and that of non cyberspaces. It indicates that increase in social capital in cyberspace leads to decrease in social capital in non cyberspace.
mohsen neizi; fatemeh torenjipoor; melad noruzi; asma asgarikaveri
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Meta-Analysis of Social Factors Affecting Fertility in Iran Mohsen Niazi[1] , Fatemeh Torenjipoor[2] , Mylad Nvrvzy[3] Asma Asghari Kvyry[4] Received: 27/11/2015 ...
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Meta-Analysis of Social Factors Affecting Fertility in Iran Mohsen Niazi[1] , Fatemeh Torenjipoor[2] , Mylad Nvrvzy[3] Asma Asghari Kvyry[4] Received: 27/11/2015 Accepted: 12/11/2016 Abstract Over the past few decades the fertility rate in Iran has experienced significant changes and families faced with numerous challenges in childbearing. Efforts to increase the population, were not successfully accompanied by different groups of people. The continuation of this trend will be followed by consequences such as reaching a population below the succession level and population ageing in the coming decades. This study aims to identify the social and cultural factors affecting family’s fertility motivation in Iranian studies using the meta-analysis method. In order to perform meta-analysis, 60 relevant published research studies in the field of fertility in the past decade (from 2001 until now) were selected. After reviewing 60 studies, 36 articles were excluded due to lack of basic criteria for the meta-analysis and 24 studies were selected. Based on the findings of the meta-analysis, demographic variables such as age, education, especially female education, family size, families’ socio-economic status, strategies, family using Multivariate Analysis Test. Separate effect of virtual social networks on risk taking was significant, and on the entrepreneurship capability, dimensions independence, internal control, achievement motivation and creativity wasn’t significant. Also gender effect on the risk taking and internal control was significant and on the other items wasn’t. Finally, the effect of virtual networking and gender on the internal control was significant and on the other items wasn’t significant. Though Policy-makers and practitioners in virtual domains should pay more attention to education, expert and continual monitoring of the networks, and planning for the future. Keywords: Virtual Social Networks, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Capabilities, Students [1]. Department of Social Sciences, University of Kashan, IRAN. Email: mniazi@kashanu.ac.ir [2]. M.A. in Cultural Studies at University of Kashan. Iran (Corresponding Author). Email: f.torenjipoor@yahoo.com [3]. Ph.D. Student Social issues at University of Kashan, IRAN. Email: noruzi@grad.kashanu.ac.ir [4]. Ph.D. Student Social issues at University of Kashan, IRAN. Email: asma.asghari@yahoo.com
mohsen niazi; mohammad karkonannasrabadi
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The concept of lifestyle, as a means of explaining the people’s way of living as well as cultural and behavioral patterns of society, is considered as one of the fundamental notions in human sciences, especially psychology and social sciences. On the other hand, religiousness is regarded as a set ...
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The concept of lifestyle, as a means of explaining the people’s way of living as well as cultural and behavioral patterns of society, is considered as one of the fundamental notions in human sciences, especially psychology and social sciences. On the other hand, religiousness is regarded as a set of cognitions, beliefs, moralities, and religious rules, commitment to which gives people life, discipline, prosperity, and integrity. It is defined by the scholars as a very strong factor in determining the type of lifestyle. On this basis, the present research aims to study the relationship between religiousness and lifestyle. The main objective of the study, in fact, is to explain the way the two variables of religiousness and lifestyle interact in the statistical population of the research. This was a survey study, and the data was collected using a questionnaire-interview technique. Validity and reliability of the main research scales, i.e. religiousness and lifestyle, were confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The statistical population included all the residents of Kashan city in the first half of the year 2011. Based onCochran's sample size formula and using Quota sampling method, 640 subjects were selected. The results were indicative of a significant relationship between the extent of religiousness and all aspects of lifestyle among the respondents. The results of Spearman’s correlation coefficient also showed that there was a significant relationship of 99% confidence between the two variables (rs=0.312). Moreover, the results of the stepwise step-wise regression analysis indicated that the aspects of belief and religious awareness affected the residents’ lifestyle by 29% and 28% respectively.
