فصلنامه مطالعات میان فرهنگی
پیاپی 25 (تابستان 1394)

Nationality is one of the nation's surfaces Loyalty which Compliance with a political unit called the country. Nationality means a huge social group in a specific political geography and under a specific political government. The members of a nation have Solidarity to each other and to their country; they also have common feel for past, present and future. The purpose of this research was to estimate feelings of national loyalty among Islamic Azad University, Region 8.
National loyalty divided to four aspects in this research, such as Personal sacrifices, being ready for defense of the homeland in danger situation, love and devotion to his/her homeland and Lack of tendency for immigration. Questionnaire was the main tool for gathering information in this research. Statistical population was the students of Islamic Azad University, Region 8 and the method was Cluster sampling and simple random. The sample size was 200 students and was used Cochran formula and SPSS Statistical software for sample size determination.
The Results of this research show feelings of national loyalty among Islamic Azad University, Region 8 is in good condition but in some Components such as country development, Delivery of precious objects and monuments, cooperate with government in economic Issues and attention to common interests are needed reinforcement national spirit.

Considering the importance of diversity in communities with different ethnic background, its impact on national unity and integration is obvious. The aim of this study was to determine the national-ethnic identity dimensions and comparing ethnic, national and global identity in the students from different ethnic groups in Azerbaijan Shahid Madani University. The method of this study was causal-comparative and population includes students of three ethnic groups (Turk, Lor and Kurd) who were enrolled in the academic year 91-92. The sample size was 364 subjects that calculated by krejcie and Morgan sample size table. The study sampling method was snowball sampling. To measure the dimensions of ethnic and national identity, were used the ethnicity and nationality scale and acceptance of globalization scale to student global identity. For data analysis, was used the exploratory factor analysis and multivariate analysis of variance. The results in national-ethnic identity dimensions indicate nine identity dimensions that was explained 70% of the variance of the students’ national-ethnic identity. From the nine identity dimensions, six components were for ethnic and three for nationalism. Also the results showed that in general, composition of students’ scores were different together in three components of ethnic, national, and global identity. Finally, there are differences between ethnic groups in terms of component related with non-ethnic and prejudice national, but these differences wasn’t observed in national and global dimensions of life.

The Information technologies have had significant impacts on society in a way that their most impacts are being on the culture sector. Barlow marks it as the most serious cultural evolution since the discovering of fire. In recent years, one of the most important information technologies is social networking which has grown incredibly in terms of attracting the users. In Iran, the social networking of Facenama could have attracted about 2 million users in 3 years and is located on top of the most popular sites in Iran. The aim of this research is to know that how many cultural types of the Facanama social networking’s user can be categorized. Since no studies have been performed on this issue and no specific theories exist about it, the grounded theory was used in this study which is based on no theories. The results showed that 5 main types of users exist in Facenama social networking, including: “lover and paying attention to romantic life”, “interested in religious life and doing religious recommendation”, “paying attention to the words of elders for a better life”, “happy, lively and joyful” and “single, isolated and heartbreak”.

Assessing the effect of moral foundations on different aspects of socio-cultural and political life is difficult because there has not been sufficient data yet. However, doubtlessly, the influence of moral factors on humans’ behaviors is definitive. Although moral priorities are not necessarily determinant, they construct a complicated system of causal factors which can be important motivating factor in long term periods. Accordingly, the present study aims at investigate the effects of moral values on citizens’ orientations towards conservatism in cultural and political domains among students of University of Isfahan using Haidt and Graham’s Moral Foundations Theory. The present study also is to compare the degree of the relative significance of moral foundations as a variable determining of each ideas of political and cultural conservatism. The results of the present study indicate that moral foundations with coefficient determination as 45% can explain the highest variance of cultural conservatism. In addition, findings of the present study indicate that only two variables of care and respecting authority are effective on political conservatism, while care morality causes the reduction in political conservatism and the variable of respecting authority causes the increase in tendency towards political conservatism.

In this article, a model for the development of intercultural relations in the era of globalization was presented. The method in this study was a descriptive - survey and data collection tool was a researcher –made questionnaire with 52 questions. The research population consisted of experts involved in cultural affairs and international relations in the organizations of Strategic Research Center of the Expediency Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRIB, the SCCR and the National Center for Globalization Studies. In order to study the opinions of the limited statistical community and aiming to increase the accuracy of the results of sampling, census method was used, and the sample size was estimate 120 people.
The results of the research in terms of theoretical dimension, has considered culture as the issue as important as other factors such as the strength of political, economic, military and even in some theories, as the most important factor and the basis of convergence or divergence of nations. Results from the Friedman test showed that, compared with the 3 components of political, economic and military; culture was ranked as the third priority. But in the field section, members of the population, despite considering significance of the role of culture in foreign policy, have known the impact of culture less important than political and economic power in this field. Finally, by ending up and analyzing of the survey results, practical model based on the factor of cultures containing solutions has been developed at three levels of domestic, regional and international for the development of inter-cultural relations.

This paper aims to study the relationship between social capital and culture of citizenship as key elements of social sciences. In the recent decades, the variables such as social cooperation, solidarity, trust and awareness have been discussed by sociologists as the fundamental factors of social capital and the values and norms of citizenship. Thus, the current research aims at specifying the status of citizenship culture and social capitals, and the link between them in the statistical population of this study. This study is a social survey and its data are collected through questionnaire and interview. The statistical population includes all the citizens over 15 living in Tehran in 1393. Using the Cochran sampling formula, 1112 subjects are chosen as the sample. The results of this study, using Pearson correlation coefficient, confirms the positive and meaningful correlation between social capitals and the citizen's compliance with the citizenship culture(r=0.34) with a level of reliability as 99%. Additionally, the results of multivariate regression analysis indicate that the effects of variables including social cooperation, awareness and trust on citizenship culture are %21, %17 & %6, respectively.