نشریه جامعه شناسی اقتصادی و توسعه
سال یکم شماره 2 (پاییز و زمستان 1391)

The life style is one of the important concept in social science and a factor for definig values, attitudes and social identity. The aim of this study was to investigate the life style and related factors among the students of Tabriz Prisons University. The method used in this research is a survey and correlation. Target Population consisted Student of Tabriz Prisons University which were 373 Student, and 190 was selected by random sampling. The results show significant relation between independent variables included cultural capital, economic capital, religiosity and relative privatation of life style. In addition, result of multivariate regression analysis, show that 68% of changes in dependent variable is explained by independent variables.

Throughout history, human life has been passing a continual link with the nature. Water, soil, land and plants, always have been helping people and inspired them and environment as a background for human activity which is considered as a the most important part and an integral fraction of human life. However, human beings are also responsible for maintaining their environment. On this paper we applied Pierre Bourdieu's theory, social capital which is considered as an effective element in the lives of the citizens of Tabriz and their social behavior.The purpose of this paper is examining the relationship between dimensions of social capital and the environmental lifestyle. The results reveal education and income have significant effect on environmental lifestyle, among the three dimensions of social capital, aspects of social participation and social cohesion are significantly associated with environmental lifestyle but social trust does not show a significant relationship. Multiple regression analysis also indicates that social participation, education and social cohesion explained eleven percent of the variance of environmental lifestyle.

According to increasing importance of human capital health through development processes, it is essential for societies, specially developing ones, to recognize the nature of its health threatening factors and their roles and significances. Based on recent empirical studies, socio-economic factors can explain main observed health inequalities among people. In this study in order to investigate the roles and significances of socio-economic factors in explaining health related disparities between college students in Iran, a stochastic sample of 370 college female students has been examined. Using ordered logistic regression, empirical results show that some psycho-social and life style factors along income variable can have significant impact on assessed health status among studied students.

Religious attitudes of an organization’s employees can be considered as effective strategies to decrease social inequality between rich and poor people. On the other hand, these attitudes can increase the feeling of social responsibility. Religiousness has a solidarity function and can enhance the solidarity of employees and this solidarity is more with those that observe an organization’s ethical codes. Therefore, they are more cooperative with and feel more responsibility towards them. This study aims to investigate the effects of Kermanshah oil company employees’ religious attitudes on their social responsibility. This is a survey study. The target population consisted of all the employees of oil product distribution company and refinery and pipe line of Kermanshah of which 400 individuals were selected via systematic and simple random sampling. A Likert-type questionnaire was used to collect the needed data. Research findings showed that the average number of social responsible of the employees is equal to 83.5, which is lower than the expected average(105) and shows that employees in this organization have relatively low sense of social responsibility. Research findings also showed that religious attitudes in the dimensions of religious cognition and religious beliefs were significantly related to social responsibility in the dimensions of legal, economic, moral, and altruism. Religious attitudes in the dimension of religious behavior was significantly related to social responsibility in the dimensions of legal, moral, and altruism but not in the dimension of economic. In sum, employees’ religious attitudes were 0.85 related to social responsibility and this association was statistically significant.

Participation is one of the important criteria in democratic communities and also is one of important factors improve to communities. Social participation is a mindfully and voluntary participation process in cooperation with social programs and decisions which reach fulfillment in the form of assemblies, groups and organizations. One of the most significant development resources, human resources development which includes development of culture, knowledge, ideas and creativity of human individuals and their participation in community affairs. The main goal of this paper is studying effective factors of women social participation who are over 20 years old. In this study feminist theory, women's empowerment theory, and theory of exchange and... As a theoretical framework been used. In this Research have the data collected through questionnaires and by using SPSS data analyzed through Pearson coefficient test, F, and multivariable regression.

Social trust is highly significant factor for social interaction and cooperation among social actors and it has become a central issue in social research and planning in recent years. The aim of this study is to examine the main factors and consequences of social trust among college students. After reviewing the literature and building a model, ten hypotheses were proposed. A sample of 400 undergraduate students were drawn through stratified sampling, and data collected by questionnaire. Results showed that trust is higher than average, and specialized trust is higher than generalized and institutional trust. Life chances, sense of security, religious practices, years of education at university, academic achievements and field of study are significantly associated with social trust. With increasing trust, levels of participation increases and rate of deviation decreases. Multiple regression results showed that sense of security and levels of religious commitment, are more important to explain trust. They explained 38 percent of social trust variances.

Trust is one of the fundamental concepts in sociology and one of the vital components of social capital, also one the significant and essential topics in modern societies. This paper, studies the social trust of people in police forces. The aim of this research is to determine the affecting factors in the social trust of people to police forces in the city of Tabriz. The target population covers the people above the age of 15. The research method was survey cross-sectional study. The sampling method was multi-stage cluster and the sample size was 670. The findings of the research indicate that the level of generalized trust, loyalty to political system and compliance with normative rules in society, respectively have the most influence on the dependent variable. The studied independent variables totally define 67 % of dependent variable’s changes. The results represents that among affecting factors of citizens’ trust in Police forces to Tabriz, the institutional factors is effective more than the individual factors.

Adequate and healthy nutrition is one of the requirements of physical and mental health, it is an important factor and source in individual welfare and food security. Food insecurity is one of the major issues today, which has become one of the world development indicators. Therefore, the purpose of this study is aim of this study is to assessing the food insecurity among citizens of Tabriz. The sample size includes 385 citizens of Tabriz chosen through cluster sampling method. Results of study show that there is significant inverse relationship between food insecurity, social support and social participation, while there is no significant relationship between social trust and food insecurity. Findings of this study also show that there is a significant inverse relationship between food insecurity and economical capital. However, the economic capital and the quality of the food have a direct and significant relationship with each other, these findings show that food insecurity of citizens in terms of educational levels and their job are different. Regression results also showed that economic capital and social support can explain 25 percent of citizens’ food insecurity.