نشریه علوم اجتماعی
سال نوزدهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 41، پاییز 1401)

The widespread outbreak of coronavirus caused several behavioral reactions regarding the observance of health instructions and safety behaviors. Doing a survey, this study tried to discover the causes of these reactions. The statistical population included all people over 15. Using convenience sampling 939 people were selected. Data analysis was performed using SPSS and Emus software at levels of descriptive and inferential statistics. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were run to obtain and specify components. In order to validate the pattern of causal relationships between variables, the structural equation model and path analysis were used. The results showed that gender in favor of women, education in lower levels, psychological adjustment in favor of people with less psychological adjustment, and social positivity in favor of positive thinkers, affect directly on the level of adherence to safe behaviors. Moreover, increasing age was effective on adherence to safety behaviors through influencing psychological adjustment, positive attitude towards government performance, and social positivity. Marital status, positive attitude towards the performance of the government and one’s birth state have also an indirect effect on the observance of safety behaviors through the influence on spiritual positivity (due to the influence of the aforementioned variable on social positivity).

Non-compliance with treatment guidelines is one of the causes of increased mortality in cancer patients. In Iran, few research have examined therapeutic behaviors in these patients. This research aims to understand the socio-economic factors that influence treatment adherence. The study was compiled using a qualitative method and narrative interviews, and it was analyzed using grounded theory and three-stage coding. The statistical sample of the study consists of 21 patients suffering from breast cancer, purposefully chosen using snowball sampling method. After in-depth interviews and multi-stage coding, 36 open-source codes were categorized into 13 core codes, and the selective code “commercialized restrictive structure” was obtained. The findings revealed that patients with an early diagnosis had complete adherence to treatment. Due to metastasis and the rapidity with which the disease progresses, late diagnosis exposes the patient to structural conditions that have a deterrent impact on adherence to treatment. The results showed that a set of socio-economic conditions, in conjunction with medical system conditions, influence the therapeutic behaviors of women suffering breast cancer.

Iranian current consumption pattern is far away from the optimal pattern from the point of view of Islamic values. Considering the problems, this study was conducted to identify the underlying cultural factors of Islamic-Iranian lifestyle. Taking a qualitative method and thematic analysis, and conducting semi-structured interview, the study used the ideas of 17 experts of management and planning of cultural affairs and communication sciences (mainly) from Isfahan province. Purposeful sampling and snowball method were used simultaneously to have a desired sample. Theoretical saturation criterion was the decision-making criterion for determining the number of participants. The results determined eight main themes as the most cultural factors affecting Islamic-Iranian lifestyle: 1) cultural assets; 2) interactive factors; 3) family-based examples; 4) religion-based examples; 5) environmental factors; 6) individual factors; 7) cultural examples; and 8) socio-ethical examples. Each of the main themes has some sub-themes. Iranian lifestyle in so many cases is affected by non-Islamic customs and traditions; therefore it seems necessary that policymakers and cultural planners focus on Islamic lifestyle, especially on the issues related to children.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the social determinants of life satisfaction among citizens. uestionnaire was used to collect the data. The statistical population includes all citizens over 18 in Khoy city, and the sample size is 398 people according to Cochran's formula. To explain the problem, the perspectives of psychology, social psychology, and sociology were used, and SPSS software was used to analyze the data. A standard questionnaire was used to measure the variables. Anomie is examined in 5 dimensions and sense of security in 3 dimensions. According to the descriptive findings of the research, the average life satisfaction of citizens is 50.94 (between 20 and 84), anomie is 74.37 (between 32 and 152), social security is 66.14 (between 25 and 111), and hope for the future is 34/43 (between 15 and 59). According to the inferential findings, there is a negative relationship between anomie and life satisfaction (r=-0.623), and there is a positive and significant relationship between hope for the future (r=0.645) and social security (r=0.676) and life satisfaction. Among the dimensions of anomie, the political anomie and among the dimensions of the sense of security, psychological security have the strongest relationship with life satisfaction. The regression results showed that the variables of hope for the future, social security and anomie explain 0.692% of the variance of life satisfaction. The results of the path analysis indicate that the anomia variable with an influence coefficient of 0.617 is the most important and strongest predictor of changes in life satisfaction. This shows that the anomic conditions in the society in its various dimensions can affect citizens’ satisfaction with their living conditions and their sense of security and hope for the future in the society.

Such issues as authoritative space design, unproductivity of urban management, and the inability of urban space to facilitate the emergence of differences and transfer of meaning lead to the experience of alienation in the daily life of the residents of Tehran. Taking an anthropological and critical approach and applying Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space, this research compared class experience of alienation among the residents of Tehran. Alienation was defined as an instrumental relationship against a relationship for its own sake and appropriation against ownership. Space of stock market, Khalij Fars Lake and Khalazir neighborhood were selected as representatives of abstract and concrete spaces as well as Lefebvre’s trialectics of space. Multiple data were collected through observation, photos, personal interviews, previous studies and ethnographies, documentaries, organizational documents, press reports and online survey about every space. The data was coded, categorized, and analyzed interpretatively and inductively through formal, functional, and structural analysis. The study showed that alienation with others, self, labor, urban space, and everyday life, is a common experience between all classes and is related to the spatial order of the city, but it finds different meanings in the center and the periphery and is integrated in the everyday consciousness in a different way. Alienation in relation of production is experienced in the meaningless work, competitive market, and commodification are common experiences on a global scale, while political and cultural alienations depend on the specific characteristics of Tehran. The moments may be liberating at a level of social reality and remain fruitless at a higher level. The diverse manifestations of daily life, along with prohibitions, fears, and gaps, prevent the formation of collective consciousness and, as a result, a collective effort to de-alienation.

The main purpose of this study was to identify mental models and patterns regarding the presence of women in stadiums as spectators. To this end, the Q method was used. To develop a Q discourse, six experts of sport sociology, social issues, and the sociology of women and gender were interviewed. Moreover, 16 women interested in their presence in stadiums were also interviewed. Then, documents and additional information regarding issues related to the research were investigated. After setting the Q cards in order to sort them, 115 ladies interested in their presence in stadiums were selected using purposeful sampling. The participants were asked to show their agreement or disagreement by arranging the 51 sentences, the rewrite, and the category in the form of a Q chart on an eleven-degree range. The results of the Q-factor analysis showed that the participants’ mental typologies regarding barriers to the presence of women in stadiums as spectators were grouped into five categories. In other words, there were five perspectives or mental patterns about the barriers to female presence in the stadiums, including social barriers, political barriers, structural barriers, religious and cultural barriers, and gender barriers in Iran.

Natural resources like oil have an enabling or constraining impact on how societies develop through a variety of mediating pathways. The goal of the study was to investigate the role of mediating social mechanisms in the transmission of the causal effects of natural resources on the development of societies and to ascertain the relative contribution of each of these channels in light of the research gap in the field of mediating social mechanisms. This study was carried out using the panel analysis method with data from 133 countries from 2000 to 2013. The results show that the direct impact of natural resources on development is eliminated by the introduction of transmission channels. This means that natural resources mainly play their causal role indirectly. The results also demonstrated that natural resources affect the development level of societies via the social channels of human capital, institutional quality, and the level of social stability. The most significant social channel through which natural resources influence the development of countries is human capital. The deterioration of the human capital structure is the most significant channel of the unfavorable developmental consequences of the countries that are endowed with or dependent upon natural resources; consequences that can be averted with appropriate policies.

Academic enthusiasm is a kind of psychological investment and direct effort to learn and master the required knowledge and skills. It can also explain the reason of academic failure. Therefore, this study aimed to predict academic enthusiasm based on family performance and academic resilience in primary school students in the academic year 2022-2023. The statistical population of the descriptive and correlational study included all fifth-grade students of Shazand, 232 of them were selected by random sampling method and using Morgan's Karjesi table. To collect data, Shofer's (2002) academic enthusiasm questionnaires, and Samuels’ academic resilience and family functioning questionnaire (FAD) was used. The data were analyzed using the statistical methods of the Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis simultaneously. The results showed that there is a positive significant relationship between resilience and academic enthusiasm. Moreover, regarding the role of families, there is a significant and direct relationship between academic enthusiasm and the component emotional companionship and relationship. The results of the regression analysis of the two variables of family role and resilience showed that the relationship component of the variable of family role and resilience can explain students’ academic enthusiasm. Since academic enthusiasm can be predicted from family performance and resilience, which is formed by the direct impact of parents’ behavior on students, through educating families we can strengthen this structure as one of the most important and influencing component for students’ success.