نشریه مطالعات جامعه شناسی
سال پانزدهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 55، تابستان 1401)

This study aimed to determine the role of environmental quality variables and intercultural characteristics of a place in spatial satisfaction. The study was conducted in the coastal area of the Karun River in Ahvaz, which is both a residential-commercial and recreational-tourist area. The research was conducted by survey method and the statistical population of the research consisted of the local residents over 20 years old and visitors to recreational sites along the Karun River. Face-to-face interviews were performed to collect the data and the participants (n =310) were selected systematically randomly. The environmental quality includes 6 dimensions of activity, physical qualities, ecology, health, safety and security. The intercultural characteristics consist of three dimensions of cultural symptoms, cultural interactions, and cultural attitudes. The place satisfaction has three dimensions, including sense of satisfaction, sense of happiness, and sense of calmness or importance.The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that these dimensions can adequately measure the variables. Based on the findings, the respondents' mean scores of satisfaction and dimensions of environmental quality, intercultural characteristics, and spatial satisfaction were significantly low. The variables of environmental quality (coefficient of 0.11) and intercultural characteristics (coefficient of 0.24) had a positive and significant effect on place satisfaction.

This study aims to investigate the opportunities and challenges of foreign investment in East Azerbaijan province with emphasis on the two business districts of Tabriz and Jolfa. The research method was survey and a questionnaire was used to collect data. The statistical population was managers of foreign investments and foreign investors in the cities of Tabriz and Jolfa. The sample size was determined using Cochran's formula and 429 people were selected by stratified sampling method. According to the findings, the identified challenges of foreign investment in Tabriz and Jolfa regions included administrative bureaucracy, lack of optimal executive plans, inconsistencies in executive plans, lack of consensus and empathy between officials and lengthy investment process. Foreign investment opportunities included greater profitability, lower production costs, better marketing, better access to workers, and the ability to compete more with the host country's products. Findings showed that there is a significant direct correlation between the variables of social capital with the three dimensions of participation, trust and social cohesion and foreign investment (r = 0.55). Also, the study of the effect of social capital on foreign investment showed that social capital has an effect of 0.46 on foreign investment. Conflict of interest: According to the authors, the article did not have any conflict of interest.

This study aimed to investigate the role of the culture industry and the knowledge industry on the tendency toward sports. The Grounded Theory (GT) method was used in this study. The statistical population consisted of two groups of elites in the fields of sociology, sociology of sports, media and education, as well as the youth of Bandar Abbas. The in-depth and unstructured interview technique was employed in the qualitative part, while a quantitative researcher-made 42-item questionnaire was utilized in the quantitative part. The results in the qualitative part were analyzed through open, axial and selective coding and the concepts were identified based on which a researcher-made questionnaire was developed. The results were analyzed using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test and Friedman test. According to the findings, exercise motivation was categorized into three indicators, namely physical and mental health, quality of life, and leisure and pleasure; the knowledge industry was categorized into three indicators, namely education, introduction of sports, and scientific-sports contents; and the culture industry was categorized into five indicators, namely radio sports programs, virtual sports pages, sports press, documents and interviews of athletes on TV, and television sports programs and competitions.Conflict of interest: According to the authors, the article did not have any conflict of interest.

Today, the study of the phenomenon of fashion and the factors affecting it has been considered by many researchers. The present article is trying using the meta-synthesis method to systematically review the findings of studies in this regard and analyze them. For this reason, using the above method, the results of previous researches were analyzed. From 2006 to 2020, out of 235 articles, finally 61 articles were selected for analysis. The results show that the most important factors affecting fashion in Iran are: Marketing agents, Social media and networks, Social factors, Approval and admiration of others, Culture and lifestyle, Situational factors, Idealism, Belonging and influences of groups, Display of power and branding, Body management, Hedonism and consumerism, Competitive behavior, Mental engagement with fashion and Shortcomings.

The presence of women and their role in shaping today's urban spaces is an important issue.On the other hand, the issue of gender and gender equality in urban spaces is an issue that is often marginalized Gender equality means respect for the equality of men and women with access to all cultural,social, and economic opportunities in a way that does not prejudice or overwhelm anyone.The method of this research is descriptive-analytical with practical purposes.About 267 questionnaires were distributed among women based on Cochran model and data were analyzed by exploratory factor and t-test. Cronbach's alpha for the reliability of thequestionnaire was 89.1, indicating the desired reliability.Based on exploratory factor analysis, the questions were categorized into four factors (physical, access, social security andcultural) that account for 68.35% of the total variance. The results show that physical, access and socio-cultural factors with significant levels of 0.043, 0.016 and 0.033, respectively, are not in good agreement with women's needs and only security factor with significant level of 0.220 shows favorable status for respondents.

Literary works, reflect the thoughts, way of life and circumstances of any nation and show social realities artistically. The Qajar period, due to its social and political ups and downs, has always been the focus of attention of many scholars. Due to the constitutional revolution, this era is divided into two periods, the present study covers the interval between the years (1223-1270). Although social issues are not reflected in this period as much as in the following; Therefore, the purpose of this study is to study the sociology of Qajar literature with emphasis on Qaani disturbances. The present study uses descriptive-analytical method and library and documentary study to examine the sociological themes of Qaani. The results of documentary studies show that issues such as poverty, bribery, theft, begging, intoxication and flattery, flattery and pretending to be disturbed by Qaani have been considered; However, due to the eulogy of this court poet, it is not possible to criticize the unhealthy situation of the society in a tangible way, and in the form of an anecdote, there are references to social problems and dilemmas

The present study was conducted with the aim of checking the amount of considering the component of constructivism presented in the social science textbooks of the secondary school. the research sample were consisted of all social science textbooks at the secondary school level in the academic 92- 93. Shannon entropy method was used for content analysis.The obtained result from data analyzing showed the group iteraction was considered more than other components and there was less notice to the physical environment for learning and, assessment of group work, performance assessment, self-assessment, build Knowledge, evaluation of the learning process, Learning situation. retest reliability of the survey instrument was used to determine the value of the correlation coefficient 0/86 was obtain. According to recent research findings and to review high school social science curriculum is necessary to pay more attention to neglected component.Conflict of interest:According to the authors of the present article, there was no conflict of interest.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the situation of social responsibility in Tehran and the main approach of this study is the integrated theory and several dimensions of social order.

The research method is survey and the data collection tool is a questionnaire. The statistical population includes men and women over 18 years of age in Tehran, 600 of whom were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling. The obtained data were analyzed using SPSS software.

The results showed that the variables of responsibility in this study, including the social welfare component (4 out of 5) were obtained, which indicates the level of concern and concern of people about the problems of society, but the effectiveness score of individuals ( 2 out of 5) was obtained which was at a low level and the score of the duty scale was (2.75 out of 5) which is lower than the average level and the overall score of social responsibility of the respondents was 3.01; It was found from 5 that this figure indicates the level of moderate responsibility among the research community. Based on this, it can be said that the respondents' adherence to social ethics is moderate. In the inferential findings, social responsibility is related to gender. It does not make sense, meaning that social responsibility is not gender. But social responsibility has a significant relationship with the marital status of individuals so that married people have more responsibility.

It is an imperfect inquiry to study religious changes in contemporary Iran without considering new religious movements in the world. In this essay, the most important characteristics of religious developments in contemporary world are studied from a global perspective in order to recognize the main trend of these changes. Here, using the method of logical analysis of and inference from knowledge gathered in the realm of sociology of religion, the characteristics of new religious movements and their possible trends are identified. Some of these characteristics include: the proliferation of movements that are undogmatic, unregulated and unstructured, personal experience as the measure of truth claims, the notion of religion as a self-revising system, the principle of salvation without intermediaries, multiple membership, and the goal of liberating humanity, either through self-knowledge, which includes understanding the self as part of the universal Self, or through self-transformation through transformation of the world, as in engaged spirituality.

The aim of this study is to investigate the barriers to political development in Iran with emphasis on the lack of participation of academic elites (Case study: professors of Larestan universities). This work is a fundamental and applied research in terms of purpose. Regarding the data, this qualitative study was conducted by using the phenomenological method. In this research, information was collected through interviews. Using purposive sampling method and theoretical saturation technique, key informants (including 20 professors) were selected to identify barriers to political development. The tool used was a semi-structured interview. The data collected from the interviews were analyzed by content analysis method.Based on the results of content analysis in this piece of work, ten basic themes include: Cultural and educational failure, distortion of people's attitudes toward development, inadequate media information, employment and inefficient economic policies of governments, feelings of relative deprivation, weak capital Social, historical factors, weakness of civil society, and political factors were obtained. Finally, four organizing themes including cultural barriers (: Cultural and educational failure, distortion of individuals' attitudes toward political development and weakness of media information), Economic barriers (employment situation and inefficient economic policies of governments)and Social barriers (feelings of relative deprivation, weak social capital, and weak civil society) and structural barriers (historical and political factors)

Considering that the study of social systems is the basis of organizational research, the present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the factors affecting the productivity of educational organizations with emphasis on social systems in a qualitative way from the Grounded Theory. The statistical population of the study was a group of experts in the field of productivity. 25 people were randomly selected as a sample. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview with productivity experts. by conceptual analysis of data, 20 organizational factors affecting productivity, 16 organizational barriers to productivity, 12 organizational factors underlying productivity, 35 strategic organizational factors, 20 causal factors and 7 organizational outcomes around the five main axes of education, research, culture, student and credits and facilities were obtained. Finally, the results were presented as five hypotheses and a model.

The present study was designed and conducted to investigate the relationship between membership and use of Instagram social network with a view to fashion among the youth of Tehran. The statistical population of the study includes all young people living in Tehran and the sample size using the Cochran's formula is 385 people. The present study is an applied-descriptive study, its survey technique and measurement tool is a questionnaire. Due to the prevalence of coronavirus and the impossibility of completing the questionnaire in person, the questionnaire was distributed and completed in google form by snowball method. To measure the amount and type of use of Instagram, he made a researcher-made questionnaire and to measure the attitude towards fashion among young people, the standard questionnaire of Saffarinia et al. (2012), which is based on attitudes to three areas: Simmel (1971) designed, used. The results showed that the most important uses of Instagram by young people in the field of quality or type of use of Instagram, in the fields of ordering required clothing through fashion-related posts on Instagram, attention and attraction to their required clothing through fashion-related posts Clothing, and commenting on other people's posts (comments), But knowing about fashion and clothing through Instagram posts, posting to others and friends, and liking other people's posts has come next. Findings showed that there is a relationship between the use of Instagram social network and all dimensions of fashion attitudes.