Iranian International Journal Of Social Sciences
Volume:7 Issue: 1, Winter 2017

Despite tremendous popularity of video games, there have been concerns about their detrimental effects on children. The game rating systems were developed to assist parents in monitoring their children’s gaming experiences. This paper explores how parents in Iran, as a society without established media rating systems, control their children’s gaming experiences. Mixed methods of semi-structured in-depth interview with 30 parents and survey with 500 parents are applied. Prominent categories of mediation among Iranian parents include: “restrictive mediation” (limiting the amount of time that children spend on playing video games), “instructive mediation” (warning children of negative effects of video games), and “social co-playing” (sitting near children during gaming sessions to check the game content). We also found that parents who are concerned about negative effects of gaming and parents who consider game rating system as essential exert more mediation over children's gaming experiences. Parents with high level of education, mothers, and parents of younger children apply more any of these three types of mediation. Finally, implications for game policy-making and suggestions for future research are provided.

The present study attempts to analyze Iraq war against Iran based on Parsons' subsystems. The main question aims at finding the social positive/negative functions of the war. According to the studies, the first effect of the war was damaging behavioral organism subsystem so that it couldn't realize its functions. Subsequently, the chaos spread to the personality subsystem. Except for the qualitative and the quantitative development of the defense industries, the war caused failure in most purposes of the first development plan drawn up the behavioral organism subsystem. To create unity and cohesion in the society and based on the specific necessities of wartime, the social subsystem ratified the laws tending to be supportive and economic, though it was not so successful. Eventually, the cultural subsystem which was influenced by the war could revive different values in various eras of wartimes and spread them to the society. It could also issue the necessary orders to other social subsystems so that they could confront the problem relating to the war. At the end of the war this subsystem relatively lost its effectiveness.

The aim of this research is to create and to normalize the marital infidelity predictor test. The method used in this study is post-event and it uses the survey technique. The statistical population consists of women residents in Tehran and for investigating the subject and determining the technical characteristics of the questionnaire, 200 individuals are selected, through cluster sampling, who completed the designed questionnaire. The results from the hypotheses testing show that the calculated Cronbach’s alpha, for the reliability coefficient of marital infidelity predictor test is equal to 0.90. The validity of the questionnaire is estimated by using the exploratory factor analysis. 6 factors (sexual, emotional, and communication diversities, motivation to take revenge from the betrayed spouse, the spouse’s unattractiveness, sexual dysfunction, impressionability from the media, and an imbalance of power in the couple’s relationships) are extracted that determine its variance. The results of the hypotheses testing show that there is a relation between the total score of the marital infidelity measure and each of the six factors that are extracted from factor analysis.

This research aimed at investigating the role of social capital on the rights and duties of citizenship among master students of Marvdasht Islamic Azad University. 353 students were surveyed using cluster sampling. The study made use of two questionnaires of citizenship and social capital corporation. This instrument benefited from face and structural validity and the reliability index was reported to be more than 7.0. Data analysis was done using correlation and structural equation model with overt and covert variables. Data from surveys were put into AMOS and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software in order to be analyzed. The findings indicated that there is a significant relationship between social capital and compliance with laws and awareness of rights. However, no significant relationship was found between social capital and participation and sense of responsibility. Significant relation was also found between citizenship rights. The developed model for social capital fitted with citizenship rights and duties.

This research aimed at investigating the role of social capital on the rights and duties of citizenship among master students of Marvdasht Islamic Azad University. 353 students were surveyed using cluster sampling. The study made use of two questionnaires of citizenship and social capital corporation. This instrument benefited from face and structural validity and the reliability index was reported to be more than 7.0. Data analysis was done using correlation and structural equation model with overt and covert variables. Data from surveys were put into AMOS and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software in order to be analyzed. The findings indicated that there is a significant relationship between social capital and compliance with laws and awareness of rights. However, no significant relationship was found between social capital and participation and sense of responsibility. Significant relation was also found between citizenship rights. The developed model for social capital fitted with citizenship rights and duties.

Realization of satisfaction in residential environments is shaped by several factors; one of these factors is the economic elements of the city. Economic indicators, along with other factors such as physical, cultural, social, etc., is effective on the inhabitants’ assess of their place of residence and it is introduced as one of the effective factors on the motivations of households to move from their residential places. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of economic factors on residential satisfaction and its impact on the movement of households in Yaftabad Neighborhood y considering its history in the Tehran metropolis. In addition, the study has used descriptive – analytical method to collect the information and based on the number of samples, a total number of 347 questionnaires were developed. The gathered data was analyzed using SPSS method and CSM index. The results indicated that the residences are satisfied with access and transportation safety in the area but there are not satisfied with residential units and neighborhood services and facilities. These issues have caused 59.2 percent of desire to relocate and 40.8 percent with no intention to residential relocation despite the presented problems.

This study was made to provide sociological explanation about social honesty effect on political participation. Since our community has undergone many changes during the time and considering that it has been changing from traditional society to a modern community, there is necessary need to have enough knowledge and recognition in context of quantity and quality of political participation more than ever.so that, political condition in one country, and in smaller classification as a city, can influence political awareness and behavior of people towards political and social issues. This study aimed at recognizing political participation and providing sociological explanation for social honesty effect on that. This research was performed in survey method and tools of study included the questionnaire. Statistical population included women and men aged between 18-65 years. Sample volume included 400 people in Gorgan city who were selected by stratified random sampling and they all were studied. Research results indicated that: there is relationship between honesty variables including speech and performing affairs, loyalty, and value behaviors and contacts with political participation. In addition, based on statistical tests performed on social-economic base, education level, age group and gender, it was identified that there is significant relationship between base, education and age groups with political participation. However there was no significant relationship between gender and political participation. In path analysis of direct and indirect effects of variables, results illustrated that maximum effect on political participation was related to honesty in behavior which included 0/248. Findings showed 0/084% changes in dependent variable are able to be explained by analytical model of path analysis.