نشریه مطالعات توسعه اجتماعی - فرهنگی
سال نهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 34، پاییز 1399)

The forward text is a description of abolition and termination of death penalty in the modern world and explanations that different sociological views are drawn to this decline. The first part is the death penalty in pre modern world, a world that can be considered as the age of death penalty, the second section is about the fall of this kind of punishment in human societies. The third part is about the typology of sociological theory that has been explaining this change. In this text we will talk about four types of theory, functionalist theory, political economy of the death penalty, Foucauldian theory and finally culturalist theory.  The fourth category, however, are those that explain such change with the help of culture and believe that gradually in the modern world, structure of the feelings of human beings have changed, and the modern human beings nourished another, and therefore, the behavior with the body of criminals finds new meaning and form.

developing suitable educational policies which are scientific, practical, and based on valid field observations and audience's needs, can play a significant role in the comprehensive promotion of target community of audience. the goal of the present study is to provide practices for making television programs of agriculture training.the present study adopted in-depth interview as research methods. Thus, 18 experts of agriculture, developement communication, as well as IRIB program developers and policy makers were deeply interviewed with. The the interview were analyzed through thematic analysis and network methods. At last, program making methods for agriculture policy-makers as well as agriculture training TV program makers were presented which were of two main parts: content and structural indicators of program making, and program-maker's (message senders) characteristics. Content and structure practices included informing, training and skills developing ways, goals of program making, being in tally with ecosystem, using other countries' experiences, communicating other groups, using various formats, style of program-maker's and planing. These practices are for communication policy-makers who explain the content and structural features of the practices for training program from production to broadcasting. Second, training and skills developing process which are carried out either covertly or overtly.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of online social networking on couplechr('39')s relationships. Relationships between couples in this study measured and examined in five dimensions: sexual satisfaction, intimacy, couple conflict resolution, domestic violence, couplechr('39')s financial agreement, and couples consent in child rearing. The research method is survey and the statistical population includes married people of Tehran. The sample size is 340 couples in Tehran which is calculated by Cochran formula. The sampling method is multi-stage cluster sampling and the samples of each cluster has been selected systematical randomly. The results showed that sexual satisfaction has the highest mean among the variables of couplechr('39')s relationships. Regression analysis shows that online social networks have the greatest impact respectively on reduce of violence between couples, agreement on child rearing, intimacy between couples, conflict between couples, financial relationships between couples and satisfaction of coupleschr('39') sexual relationship. According to the results of this study, mere use and membership of online social networking does not have a positive or negative effect on couplechr('39')s relationship, but rather the quality of using online social networking that determines its positive or negative impacts and consequences.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the content of social studies textbooks of elementary school based on multicultural education. The research method was quantitative content analysis. The statistical population of the study was social studies textbooks of the second elementary school. The statistical sample was also social studies textbooks of the second elementary school. The data collection tool was a multicultural training component checklist that extracted based on literature. The results show that the most attention and frequency related to the component of the reflection of ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity (53 cases) and the least frequency  was in components of approximation to other religions (0 case), Anti-discrimination and racial prejudice training (0 case) and equal distribution of resources and educational opportunities (0 case). Since elementary school textbooks have received little attention to multicultural education and components such as non-racial bias, and equitable distribution of educational resources, it is expected that curriculum developers at the national level pay more attention to these components in the new curricula.

Given the importance of social participation and the use of community-based approach in the development of communities, the present study seeks to identify the key factors affecting social participation in community-based organizations of addiction prevention with a scriptwriting approach. Research is in an inductive deductive approach, both quantitatively and qualitatively, which is applied in terms of exploratory nature and purpose. The statistical population of both qualitative and quantitative stages were experts active in the field of community-based prevention of addiction, which was selected through snowball sampling. To collect data in the qualitative stage, library studies, valid research on the subject and interviews with research samples were used. In the quantitative stage, data were collected using two Mick Mac questionnaires and status analysis. In this study, to measure validity, while using face validity, triple interaction was used and the data were analyzed with the help of SPSS software, Mikmak and ScenarioWizard. According to the research findings, 9 factors were identified as key factors affecting social participation, 30 possible situations for 9 factors and two categories of promotional and preventive scenarios for social participation in community-based organizations of addiction prevention.

The formation of social interactions requires a spatial container. Public spaces can lead to the formation of a sense of identity, belonging and a sense of place by increasing the amount of communication, convergence of different individuals and groups, providing a platform for various activities and events, and thus inducing collective memory among the residents. All of which are components of social capital. , In the present study, an attempt has been made to explain the relationship between social capital, public spaces and neighborhood identity, the various dimensions of this issue. Therefore, the study of the impact of physical and social dimensions of space on the components of social capital such as trust and interaction and incidental participation in social networks can explain the role of public spaces in social capital and neighborhood identity. This research has been done through correlation and regression tests in spss-minitab software.