۸۰/۵۰۰۰ Social Development Social Welfare Globalization Family abuse Job Satisfaction social participation
Atefeh Sedaghati; Marzieh sadat Alvand; Mohammad Taghi Pirbabaei
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Urbanhousingpolicy, asoneofthemost important areas of urbanpolicy has always been considered by urban planners and policymakers. While some populistpolicies of development with the aimof maximizing adaptation to the conditions of target group, especially their income, ...
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Urbanhousingpolicy, asoneofthemost important areas of urbanpolicy has always been considered by urban planners and policymakers. While some populistpolicies of development with the aimof maximizing adaptation to the conditions of target group, especially their income, have undergone theoretical reductionism and in long run negative economic, physical, environmental, political and socio-cultural effects; trying to reduce these effects is sometimes difficult or costly. Inthisregard, the "MehrHousing Plan" has been reviewed in this article, which is seen in the strategic housing-document of the country in 2006 and in paragraph "d" of the 2007 budget law, with emphasis on the low-income target group. The approach of present study is qualitative based on the semi-structured researcher-made questionnaire by purposeful interview at the level of knowledgeable experts. Out of a total of 22main codes and 22identified related concepts, 15main categories have been extracted and analyzed in the form of 4main research questions According to the findings, in the Mehr housing project, 7 characteristics of populism that can be traced in the idea, implementation and trends of the project have been identified and explained. Emphasis is placed on results orientation and immediate effectiveness of plans, instead of quality orientation, as well as polarization and border and text conflicts.
abazer ashdarimhrjardi; hossein merzie; Sed ahmad firouzabadi; hossein emanijajarmi
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Today, large cities as a result of migration have problems such as population density, environmental pollution, loss of values and traditions, and social and cultural damage. Factors such as increased income of some groups and classes have caused some families to look for a place to spend their ...
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Today, large cities as a result of migration have problems such as population density, environmental pollution, loss of values and traditions, and social and cultural damage. Factors such as increased income of some groups and classes have caused some families to look for a place to spend their free time away from the troubles of city life and closer to the values of their parents. This demographic and geographical mobility, which is a seasonal reverse migration, has resulted in the emergence of another wave of urbanization outside big cities, such as Arak. The statistical population for this study was Farahan, a town in the north-west of Markazi Province, 32 villages of which were selected for the study. The research is descriptive and uses a combined qualitative-quantitative method. In this study, reverse migration and lifestyle have been analyzed. The most important results are: second houses are spread in all villages, especially in populated areas inFars and Khalaj. Their size varies from 35 to 1500 meters and are built on one to four floors, the architecture of about 30% of these houses is traditional, but modern materials have been used in their construction; the owners who live in Qom and Arak go to these places on weekends and holidays, but those who live in Tehran go there only on Eids, during religious holidays, or for marriage and death rituals. Half of the houses had spaces for keeping animals called barns, the accessories available and the layout of these houses are a mixure of modern and traditional lifestyles, and almost all the houses were built in the last decade, especially since the 1390s. Only about 10% of owners are women, half of the owners live in Tehran, and others live in Arak and Qom. 75% are more than 50 years old. In terms of education, 90% had a lower than college education. All owners are somehow related by family ties to the residents of the villages. About 70 percent of owners said their clothing was the same as or better than their urban clothing; in other words, they did this to show their wealth according to Bourdieu and Veblen. The relations between these people and the residents of the village are almost formal and based on mutual respect. In some rural areas, second houses cause tension and division among residents, whole in some areas they have had positive socio-cultural effects, such as empathy and participation in events in villages.
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.
tvakoli aghayariher; mohammad abaszadeh; faranak geravand
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This article aims to study the relationship between some individual and neighborhood factors and mental health among 18-65-year-old citizens of Tehran. The survey method has been used the data has been gathered from 448 citizens in 25 neighborhoods in the city through multistage cluster sampling technique. ...
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This article aims to study the relationship between some individual and neighborhood factors and mental health among 18-65-year-old citizens of Tehran. The survey method has been used the data has been gathered from 448 citizens in 25 neighborhoods in the city through multistage cluster sampling technique. The data has been analyzed using SPSS. To study the simultaneous effects of individual and neighborhood factors, a 2-level linear regression model has been employed. The results indicate that the level of mental health among Tehran citizens is 4.46 (on a 1.2-6-point scale) and medium to high; and based on taking bivariate analysis, all individual level factors, including respondents’ age (positively), SES (positively), healthy lifestyle (positively), marital status (in favor of married), and gender (in favor of men) are statistically related to mental health of the respondents. The results of the fitted 2-level model show that all individual level predictors, except age, have remained significant predictors of mental health at individual level, and the social characteristics of the neighborhood positively and significantly affected the mental health at level 2 of the model. Individual level factors accounted for 13.23%, and social characteristics of the neighborhood for 33.89% of the mental health variance at individual and neighborhood levels, respectively.
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Abstract Theoretically, the present paper is made up of some competing or alternative theories of white-collar crimes, including Hirschi & Stark’s theory of the Hellfire, Collins and Schmidt’s theory of personality correlates of white-collar crimes, James William Coleman’s sociological ...
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Abstract Theoretically, the present paper is made up of some competing or alternative theories of white-collar crimes, including Hirschi & Stark’s theory of the Hellfire, Collins and Schmidt’s theory of personality correlates of white-collar crimes, James William Coleman’s sociological theory of corruption, and finally Cornish and Clark’s economic theory of white-collar crimes. In order to test the hypotheses extracted from the above mentioned theories, a representative sample of 120 prisoners of economic crimes currently incarcerated in Evin prison were selected. Since the present study is of a causal-comparative or quasi-experimental nature, a group of 120 managers currently active in Iranian corporations and official departments also responded to the research questionnaires. The logistic regression analysis accounted for 75 percent of the variance between the two groups. According to our analysis, despite enjoying a high level of religiosity and religious background, the economic criminals under the study have committed crimes. Moreover using a cost-benefit analysis before or during the crime commission, they (compared with the non-criminal group) had underestimated the probability of being caught and also that of certainty and severity of the punishments. Finally, they had committed crime according to their individual’s perception of the levels of criminal opportunity available in their workplace, an opportunity not to be missed out. Key Concepts: economic crimes, religious socialization, opportunity for committing crime, probability of crime being caught. scientific orientation, altogether accounted for 40 percent of changes in the variable of young women’s economic consumption. The results of the study indicate that approximately 53% of women have a moderate to high tendency to modernity, and this percentage reflects the state of transition from tradition to modernity in Iran. Among the women with a tendency to modernity, whenever modernism rate was higher, i.e. when this variable existed as an array of valuable resources such as risk-taking, academic orientation, progressivism and universality (dimensions of modernity) in different aspects of social life of women, it meant that women will experience more different lifestyles.
