نشریه جامعه شناسی اقتصادی و توسعه
سال چهاردهم شماره 34 (پاییز و زمستان 1390)

The founders of political sociology, i.e. Karl Marx and Max Weber, have been tendered theories about power and politics that attracted, the world public opinions, for more than a century. But the political globalization has denied the majority of current political and sociological paradigms. Because many political and sociological theories have orientation, with nation-state, therefore, it seems that they are not tenable in political globalization era. Karl Marx’s discourse, however gives covers many aspects of the globalization era. Since in his opinion political conflict has world dimensions therefore, the nation-state, is a artificial project. Political sociology is more compatible than, that of Max Weber’s, at the present time.

Suicide is one of the most important social problems that has major impact upon society and families. Most communities have suffered from suicide incidence, even small and traditionalcommunities such as urban society of Piranshahr, has been effected. The purpose of this research, is clarifying the effect of different types of domestic violence (physical and psychological) on the Attitude of girls and women who are committing suicide. Research methods, was survey and target population, included women and girls in the age range 15-50 years, of which, 395persons have been selected as the sample size. The results showed that firstly, about 30% of women and girls had suicide attitudes, and secondly, the impact of psychologicalviolence on attitude to suicide has been more than the impact of physical violence. Also, this Adjusted R Square, (R2=/67) two types of violence mentioned above shows that the effects of violence, on suicide attitudes of women and girls, have been remarkable.

Belief and faith in God and doing religious acts and ceremonies by people have a effective role in mental and physical health and have important role in forming normal personality and life style and help them to cope with variety of mental and environmental stress. Thus in present research relation between being religious and performing religious ceremonies with hopelessness and personality traits in a group of juvenile prisoners of Adolescence Prison has been studied. Therefore 40 prisoners were selected as research sample and used PIOS Inventory for evaluating Scrupulosity, Beck Hopelessness Scale for evaluating hopelessness and Eysenck Adolescence Personality Inventory for evaluating personality traits. Results showed that sample age mean is 17 with SD 1.59. Also we found a negative significant correlation between Scrupulosity with hopelessness. Correlation between Scrupulosity with personality traits showed that there are a negative significant correlation between neurosis, psychosis and antisocial behaviors. The correlation between scrupulosity and Extraversion statistically, isn’t significant. In explanation of these findings we can conclude that the people paying more attention to religious acts and ceremonies and having strong beliefs: first, are more hopeful, second are in better mental health and have normal personality traits.

This study aims to investigate the effects of anomie and authoritarianism, in the context of socio-economic status, on Ahvaz Shahid Chamran University student's inclinations towards engaging in deviant behavior. Drawing on Merton's theory of anomie and Lippset's theory of authoritarianism, six hypotheses and a theoretical model were tested. The research method was survey and research sample included 480 students who were enrolled in Ahvaz Chamran University. Data were collected using self-rated questionnaires that asked demographic as well as socioeconomic questions on both objective and subjective aspects of SES. There were also questions concerning the feeling of anomie, authoritarianism, and inclinations towards engaging in deviant behavior. The results showed that all correlation coefficients between variables were statistically significant and that all six hypotheses were supported. Also, standard regression coefficients showed that all of the paths indicated by the theoretical model with objective socio-economic status were justified and those with subjective socio-economic status were not. The results also indicated that anomie, authoritarianism, and inclinations towards engaging in deviant behavior are in fact major social problems of the Iranian society and that their mutual effects within an economic and class context should be taken into account.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effective social and environmental factors and their impact on the tendency to computer games. This study was done through the survey method and to collect data researcher made, questionaire has been used. Our target population is Customers of clubs and game nets in Yazd from whom 195 people are determined as the sample size by Cochran formula and are selected and reviewed via cluster sampling method. Significant relationship between the variables of the impact of the environment of the Club, The impact of peer andneighborhood of the participants with the tendency to computer games are the findings of this review, Also there is not any significant relationship between variables of economic base of respondents, Employment status and the distance between their house and the place they play games and the tendency to computer games. Regression results showed that the two variables of theimpact of club Environment and game nets and the impact of peer with a Correlation rated 0/326 could Explain 9/6 percent Changes of Tendency to computer games. As the result, we can say that Bystanders and Social environment, generally in this study, have a special Impact upon the tendency to computer games.

Dangerous behaviors in driving is one of the most important factors of driving accidents which are the second cause of deaths and the first cause of reduction of normal life period. In present research “we have considered the effective cause of dangerous behaviors of urban drivers. The method of this research is survey and our statistical sample is 400 urban drivers in Tabriz. Which have been selected by Stratified sampling method? Independent variable data (dangerous driving accidents) have been obtained by researcher made questionnaire and dependent variable has been obtained by standard questionnaire of driving habits that have been codified by Obright Gholadel and Ghaboude in France national transit. The results indicate that social capital and type of vehicles have significant relation with dangerous driving behaviors and among personal characteristics “gender and age have important in influency on dangerous driving behaviors.

Lifestyle is an important concept in the current social sciences. Concrete and visible aspect of social life is person's lifestyle. This concept is showing the tendency of individuals to recognize the distinction. Infrastructures such as mental attitudes and values can build lifestyle. This study assessed the relationship between gender attitudes and lifestyle among women. Target population in thisstudy is 400 women aged 18 to 45 years living in the city of Kerman. Instrument used was a questionnaire. Lifestyle was studied by Minor styles, shopping style, leisure lifestyle, makeup and health and hygiene. The results showed that the women in this study are quite traditional gender attitude and lifestyle. But the health behavior was modern.. The results showed that the gender perspective and women's lifestyle has a significant relationship with all its dimensions.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between using the internet and political and participation among citizens of Isfahan. Internet has engendered fundamental changes in the nature and forms of political behavior in different societies. On the one hand Internet has expanded democratic information and attitudes and on the other has caused a kind of political participation. In this research, 384 citizens of Isfahan selected through random sampling were studied by applying survey method and using questionnaires. To test the hypotheses correlation analysis, regression analysis and path analysis methods were used. Research findings demonstrated that there is a significant relation between the amount and manner of using the internet and the degree and type of political participation. Using news networks and educational programs improves political trust, political effectiveness and conventional political participation among citizens. Furthermore, social networks and entertainment programs enhance unconventional political participation.

The integration among Islamic countries had been pursued in few past centuries. The major objective of this article is to examine the problems associated with the policy making in the area of integration of member states of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC). The investigation is aimed at finding a suitable answer to the following question: Considering the major developments in international security environment, has the success of integrating policies become more crucial for the OIC? Why the OIC cannot attain the real integration between Islamic Countries? This article studied the external factors: political, economical, social-cultural issues & also internal challenges of OIC.