نشریه جامعه شناسی اقتصادی و توسعه
سال یکم شماره 1 (بهار و تابستان 1391)

One of the very important issues in the present Iranian society, is people’s diversity of tacts and tastes in different consumption areas; and this caused many sociologists to base their analysis of today’s complex communities on the consumption issue. Thus, the main foundation of the research is to study the consumption diversity on indexes such as film, music, and book. In line with this issue, the present research is to study whether the amount of social capital has a meaningful influence on the consumption type in areas such as film, music, and book or not. For this purpose, the survey method was used, and also the study community was the Esfahan University students; 374 were chosen using the staged sampling method through the Chochran test. In this research, proper statistical tests were used to study the relationship between social capital and cultural consumption. The findings resulted in accepting the zero hypotheses and refusing the contrary one. That is, the results showed that there is no meaningful relationship between the amount of social capital and the cultural consumption type.

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between social capital and public health for Iran during the period of 1976-2007. For this purpose, we used the mortality as negative proxy of health and Gini coefficient as negative proxy of social capital. Also for estimate the model we used ARDL approach. The results of model estimation reveal that inequity of income distribution has positive and significant effect on mortality. In other words, there is positive and significant relationship between social capital and health. Also there is convergence between variables. With respect to the results of this study, in order to achieve better health status in the community, there distribution of income (Reducing in equalities) seems to be necessary.

Participation of students and their co-operation in the NGO's and in collective activities are influenced by several factors. The aim of this research is determining rate of social participation and the social trust impact on social participation in Yazd University. Research method of this study was survey, target population including students of Yazd University that 134 person of them were selected by Cochran formula, based on random sampling. Tool of the study was questionnaire. Statistical method was including, Ttest, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions all of the data set was analyzed by Spss19 software. Findings indicated that there are significant relationships between social trust and social participation, namely wherever social trust increases, social participation increases as well. Also, there is no difference between social Participation and gender, marital status and employment. But there are significant differences between field of study and social participation. R adjusted square indicated that 21/3 percent of variations of dependent variable (social participation), explained by independent variables (age, generalized trust and the environment trust).

The tendency of organizations to social responsibility has been many approaches. These approaches often around three main theories, stakeholder management theory, industrial organization theory and Resource-Based View of the Firm. This study examines the factors affecting the tendency of organizations to social responsibility and emphasizing the main theories put forward in this area. Friedman test and K independent samples test was used for data analyzing. Results indicate that in social and economical environment of Iran, factors that associated with three perspectives mentioned above have significant influence in determining corporate social responsibility and their priorities include: the Resource-Based View, stakeholder management theory and the theory of industrial organization. Moreover, results show that existence of organizational process for offering annualreports related to social cooperation, financial performance of institute; regarding other stakeholders` rights beside shareholders profits and scope of activity of firm according to inhabitants have the most influences to boost corporate social responsibility of Iranian firms.

Feeling of security is resulting from direct or indirect experiences of people and the conditions of environment and different persons experience it at various forms. “Viewpoint of vulnerability” that puts basically under observation the feeling of security in relation to social and personal variables such as gender, age, social and economical classes, this study by aiming recognition and study of feeling of security among vulnerable groups in the society focuses on the vulnerability in a survey form that has been conducted among 384 persons residing in Esfahan in the year 2009. The method of sampling is a cluster and it has been performed in 3 areas of Esfahan (5, 10, and 14). SPSS software and methods of statistical analysis, t-test, and one-way variance have been used for testing hypotheses and analyzing data [Anowa]. Most important findings of this study are as follows: Average of feeling of security of women is higher than men. Average of feeling of security among the elderly is lower thanother age groups. The people who put in low social class are feeling the security very low than others. Average of feeling of security among the residents of low class areas in Esfahan is lower than middle and high class areas.

Development of Culture is a process in which the mental capital of human beings is expanded to overwhelm the problems and difficulties of life. This process has two qualitative and quantitative dimensions. In the qualitative aspect the factors of development of culture are identified; and in the quantitative aspect these factors are developed. Based on this theoretical framework, this paper seeks to evaluate the existent strategies of qualitative growth of culture; and tries to find which strategy is a proper strategy to achieve this aspect of development of culture. According to the main hypothesis of this paper, "The Strategy of symmetrical Growth" in comparison with "The Strategy of Rational Growth" and "The Strategy of Traditional Growth ", is the most proper strategy to achieve the above mentioned purpose. This hypothesis has been considered by deductive and inductive methods; and the outcomes confirm its authenticity.

A new middle class is among influential factors on Iranian social and political developments, before and after the Islamic revolution. Its rapid growth after the revolution has increased the demand for political participation in different civil and social institutions. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationships between the growth of the new middle class and increase in the demand for political participation in the city of Kermanshah. This research used survey as a research method and questionnaire as a technique for collecting data. The number of the sample in this study is 400 people, among university students and professors, teachers, and journalists, residing in Kermanshah.Cronbach test has been used for the evaluation of reliability, and formal validity has been applied for the validity of the research. The hypotheses have also been tested by using F and T tests. The findings of this research show that the growth of demand for political participation is not equal in different strata of new middle class in Iran. For example, the average of this tendency is 51.15percent among students and 46.43 percent between journalists, whereas the average of this trend is 40.33 percent amongst professors of the universities, and 34.67 percent among teachers. Furthermore, the results indicate the existence of significant relationship between the members of this class and political participation.