فصلنامه راهبرد اجتماعی فرهنگی
پیاپی 1 (زمستان 1390)

The goal of this article is to study the evaluation of the Islamic Azad University’s structural impact on students’ social trust. The present study is of the descriptive–casual type. The research method is survey. Statistical population includes all students of the Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, in the year 2010. The data was collected by a questionnaire and, after examining the reliability and validity of the questionnaire, the survey was carried out among 678 students. The sampling method was a combination of clustering and non-proportional stratification.Findings indicate that social trust is higher in women than it is in men. It is higher among students of basic sciences than students of social sciences. Students’ evaluation of university structure and university agents appeared as two independent variables. The first has a direct impact and the second has an indirect impact on social trust, through the first variable.

States and organizations utilize different methods and procedures to institutionalize special behaviors. Educational, jurisdictional and social marketing approaches should be emphasized here. In the educational approach, people are motivated to change their behavior by being informed about the advantages and interests that would accompany such a change. In the jurisdictional approach, they are persuaded to change their behavior by the legal threat of punishment. The method of social marketing of behavioral change is the presentation of alternatives in social environment so that behavior would be changed voluntarily. Social marketing is effective whenever the current behavior has tangible harms. This article highlights some successful samples of behavior change through the social marketing approach.

Nefrin-e- Zamin (The curse of land) may be regarded as one of the most important novels of Ale-Ahmad, in which he reflects his social predictions and opposition to modernity. In this novel the author’s intention has been to provide the reader with a social analysis of his time. This novel is intended as a warning against the devastating calamities of modernity rather than merely a work of fiction. In this work, the issue of the Shah’s land reform could be analyzed within a special theoretical framework. Ale-Ahmad’s work contains different social concepts which could be explained in comparison with certain other related social views.

The first part of this article is about the importance of music therapy in the complex world, historical music therapy, and its definition on the basis of American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT). The modeling is designed on the basis of fuzzy models. Its input (listening music on the basis of the time which is devoted to it) and its output or its effect on five factors (memory, learning, emotion and feeling and physical health) is analyzed.

The main aim of this paper is to review the impact of imprisonment on crime occurrence in the Central Prison of Ardebil. Using a survey method, 70 subjects were randomly selected from a group 394 inmates who were convicted of theft and drug crimes. For the analysis of questionnaires and statistical methods, SPSS was used. Findings indicate a significant relationship between learning different crimes while in prison and repeatedly committing these crimes upon release.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of social factors on deviant behavior in government officials in Shiraz. In a survey of residents of Shiraz over 18 years of age, a questionnaire was distributed among 377 subjects, selected via cluster sampling. Findings indicate that the variables: rate of individual exposure to appropriate reward and punishment, individual sense of social belonging and limitation of resources accounts for 45% of variation of the dependent variable.

This article examines the relationship between national pride and certain socio-cultural factors. The study aims to explain the meaning of national pride, positive feeling of citizens toward their country and patriotic willing. A selected sample of residents of Isfahan over fifteen years of age were surveyed. in fourteen sectors of Isfahan city. Findings indicate that nationalistic national pride and patriotic national pride are correlated with variables such as age, education, socio-economic status, religion, etc.