نشریه مطالعات توسعه اجتماعی - فرهنگی
سال دهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 40، بهار 1401)

The purpose of this article is to study and sociologically analyze the phenomenon of keeping pets among the citizens of Ahvaz in 2022. In this qualitative research, interpretive phenomenology method, purposeful sampling and in-depth and semi-in-depth interview technique with 17 citizens of Ahvaz have been used to collect information. All interviews were recorded, immediately implemented and analyzed using an interpretative approach (thematic analysis). The findings include 80 semantic expressions, 38 basic concepts and 9 main categories of "creating a secure attachment style", "Increasing love and interest, happiness", "Formation of an Interspecies parenting family", "Increasing social and personal connections", "Powerful influence of media and bloggers in reflection modern culture", "Weakening of religious beliefs and convictions", "Unrecognition of pets", "Unfavorable economic conditions and financial future" and "Weakening of social capital". According to the findings, keeping pets is a suitable answer to the problem of loneliness and filling the free time of their owners. New social conditions including the transformation of lifestyles and the availability of technology, have caused some citizens to show interest in interacting with others.

In this study, it was sought to achieve a typology related to women's activism in urban spaces of Tehran using a qualitative approach with the phenomenological strategy. Data was collected using in-depth, semi-structured interviews and field observations. Purposive sampling with maximum dispersion was utilized. The sample consisted of 30 women living in Tehran who were interviewed by visiting several crowded points in the north, south, east and west side of Tehran. Data was analyzed using Thematic Analysis. According to the results, women's activism in the spaces of Tehran were classified into economic, social, cultural, sports and leisure activism and dramatic and abnormal activism. Women's activism in each of these areas varied according to their social, economic, and cultural status and capital. Results suggested that the existing structure in urban spaces of Tehran has caused women to be creative and active in some areas, such as leisure activities as well as in relation to the type of clothing and behavior in urban spaces despite the pressures and restrictions. Also women's activism is passive and more in line with the existing structure of some areas like economic domains. However, increasing women's presence in various domains of urban spaces can be the basis for many changes and transformations, which demands structural and cultural changes and changing attitudes towards the status of women, recognition of their capabilities and giving attention to their needs and desires in urban spaces of Tehran, also creating conditions for healthy employment and women's active and creative activism in various spaces of Tehran.

Cultural development as one of the driving forces of the social system is affected by many factors, which due to its nature and quality, can be greatly influenced by humanities. The purpose of this study is to know the relationship between humanities and cultural development in Iran, focusing on the city of Bushehr. Research method in terms of approach, quantitative and data collection, is a survey type description. A researcher-made questionnaire using the Delphi technique was used to measure variables. The statistical population included graduates and people studying in the fields of humanities. Using SPSS Sample Power statistical software, 420 people were selected as a sample for the study. The results show that there is a significant relationship (r = 0.552) between attention to humanities and cultural development. This situation in smaller dimensions between the employment of humanities graduates and cultural development (r = 0.483), the economic efficiency of humanities with cultural development (r = 0.462), the existence of theorists of humanities and cultural development (r = 0.588). lack of politicization of humanities and cultural development (r = 0.613), locality of humanities and cultural development (r = 0.537), study and cultural development per capita (r = 0.599); as a meaningful relationship. The results of multiple regression show that the variables of non-politicization of humanities (Beta = 0.240), study per capita in humanities (Beta = 0.230), development of humanities (Beta = 0.194), amount of theorizing in humanities ( Beta = 0.174) and the economic efficiency of humanities (Beta = 0.089), explain 52.5% of the changes in cultural development. It can be concluded that paying attention to the importance and development of human sciences can provide the context for cultural development in the society.

Today sports are used as a solution to fight discrimination, achieve equality and empower women and girls. To achieve these goals, coordination, cooperation and a strong strategy for participation between governments and the private sector can be used from the perspective of sports programs. There should be no injustice and imbalance between the sections of the society. In this regard, sports philanthropists engage in charitable activities that can help improve the development of sports. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to investigate the factors affecting the development of philanthropic participation in sports. The current research applies the qualitative and thematic analysis method. Participants are the benefactors of sports, professors of public administration, sports management and sociology, as well as managers of sports and youth departments. The method of data collection is in-depth interview and the sample size criterion is theoretical adequacy, based on which 10 people are considered. 38 sub-themes and 6 main categories have been extracted. The effective factors on the development of the participation of donors in sports were: management and strategic plan by sports institutions, cultural and social factors, laws, cooperation of different institutions in line with the coherent operation, support of scientific and educational centers for sports donors, media and information in development. An overview of the main themes as influencing factors on the development of philanthropic participation was presented. It results to that government alone has not been able to cover the deficiencies related to sports infrastructure and entrepreneurs or the private sector should enter the society with solutions such as charity in the form of fulfilling social responsibility.

The outbreak of coronavirus has had negative consequences in various aspects of human health. Social health as one of the dimensions of human health plays an essential role in all areas of human life and its spread in society can lead to social development. Therefore the purpose of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting the social health of high school students in Zahedan during the outbreak of coronavirus. The theoretical framework of the present study is composed of the theories of Keys, Wales, functionalism, Bourdieu and Baudrillard. In this study, high school students in Zahedan were studied using survey and descriptive-analytical methods. Among the studied statistical population, according to Cochran's formula, 379 people were considered as a sample and based on a simple multi-stage cluster sampling method, a statistical sample with researcher-made and standardized questionnaires was studied. SPSS21 software was used for descriptive and inferential statistical tests. The results of the study show that social factors such as field of study, social support, religiosity, educational facilities have a direct and significant relationship with social health during the corona outbreak, while gender, educational background, ethnicity and mass media have no significant relationship to it.

The aim of the present article is the critical analysis of the discourse of privatization of education in discourses after the Islamic Revolution with emphasis on the discourse of ideological and constructive. For this purpose, some direct statements and some governmental and educational texts and approvals in the two mentioned periods have been studied and criticized by Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis method. As a result from the analysis and interpretation of the texts, these discourses, are somewhat different in terms the privatization of education, political and value positions. Lack of budget, maintaining relations of hierarchical order, centralism, ambiguity and contradiction in opinion and practice, internal and external unrest, limited internal and external interactions, conservatism, dominance and superiority of intellectual and value positions of the upper echelons of the system and as the most important factor and obstacle compared to other cases, including the most significant internal constraints and external barriers in providing the requirements for educational privatization, especially at the qualitative level show the inconsistency of the goals and programs proposed with the real relations and goals of the two discourse.

Social alienation means disgust, isolation, sense of lack of identity, cut off from society and finally the feeling of socio-cultural anomie in the modern society. The main purpose of this research is to study the factors affecting social alienation by meta-analysis method in the period of 1387 to 1401. The research method is Meta-Analysis (quantitative), its statistical population is 51 documents, of which 29 researches are a non-probability sample size from the Normex scientific database, Alamnet, Meg Iran, Jihad University database, with compliance with the entry criteria (validity and reliability) and the exit criteria ( lack of validity and reliability). The results show that between cultural capital (embodied, institutionalized and symbolic); social capital (weak social cohesion, low social trust and low social belonging); cultural factors (individualism, superstitions, normative pressures and low religious affiliation); media factors (use of virtual space, internal media and external media); psychological factors (low self-confidence, social isolation and sense of inferiority), Political factors (basis of political ineffectiveness, political dissatisfaction, feeling of political discrimination, political anomie) and factors of failure (social deprivation, job failure, educational failure), there is a significant relationship between social factors (social disorder, social dissatisfaction, social anomie, feeling of injustice), background factors (level of education, age, socio-economic base and income level) and the social alienation.

Social health is one of the most important dimensions of well-being and improving the quality of life in all societies. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the different aspects of social health, and examine the relationship between social health and one of the most basic variables, namely the sense of security. The theoretical framework of this research was based on the theories of Keyes, Mead, Buzan, and Weaver. This research is of a survey type, done by collecting required data using a questionnaire among the employees of the executive bodies of the government and public sector under the social security organization of Bandar Abbas city. The sample size of this research was 346 people who were selected by simple random sampling method. Data analysis was done using SPSS software and using tests such as T, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression coefficients. According to the findings of the research, the level of social health and also the level of feeling of social security of the respondents were at an average level; whereas the income of the respondents has a direct and significant relationship with their social health. Also, a significant relationship between social health and the feeling of social security among the employees of the executive bodies of Bandar Abbas city was shown; this means that the higher the level of social health, the greater the feeling of social security in people.