Journal of Socio - Cultural Changes: 1 (1)

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1 - Social Changes of Distinction and Costs of Body Management with Grounded Theory Approach (Case study; Gorgan women)
mahbobeh ilvari Afsaneh Edrisi

The purpose of this study is finding out the women’s motivation  of accepting high costs of body management, the study is done with the qualitative approach and grounded theory method. Data collection method was unstructured interview, which was done with 15 More

The purpose of this study is finding out the women’s motivation  of accepting high costs of body management, the study is done with the qualitative approach and grounded theory method. Data collection method was unstructured interview, which was done with 15 women in Gorgan who had experience of body management. To choose the interviewees, the targeted sampling method was used, which requires sequential sampling called snowball.  The results showed that the acceptance of body management costs is caused by family support, the compelling power on the family and rejection of the status of an adult woman. The effective factors on the acceptance of the body management costs are feeling humiliated, advertisement, following media, doctors’ role and social comparison.  Having access to personal financial resources, lower position of women in the society and a way of compensating other weaknesses are of effective factors on the acceptance of body management costs which will lead to searching to find surgeons and barbers, spending time to find body management centers and getting the other people to confirm. The results of such actions and reaction is being distinct, gaining personal identity, seeking superiority, vertical mobility of social classes and the promotion of self- confidence. Manuscript profile

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2 - Investigation of the economic obstacles of development in ilam province
rozan piri roza karampour majid kaffashi

Of the numerous discussions posed over the recent decades in social sciences، the discussion of development has been one of the most important and widespread ones. Therefor، in this paper the obstacles of economic developmentin ilam Province and its people's perception More

Of the numerous discussions posed over the recent decades in social sciences، the discussion of development has been one of the most important and widespread ones. Therefor، in this paper the obstacles of economic developmentin ilam Province and its people's perception and interpretation of it have been investigated. The method of research is qualitative. The data was collected through ethnographic method and the grounded theory was used to analyze data. In this research, the documentary and obseravatory data and the data obtained from interviewing 56 participants, living in ilam,was collected by researchers. To select interviwees, the mothed of qualitative – purposive and to determine the number of interviewees the theoretical saturation method were applied. Analysis was done in three phases: open encoding, axial encoding, and selective encoding. For each question a grounded model was drawn. In the end, through the combination of all categories, the final model of research was extracted. The results of research show that the most important economic obstacles of development in this province are echologic, chronic economic poverty, lack of strong private sector, and the lack of economic infrastructures. Based on the Final model the development is perceived, evaluated and interpreted as a binary and reciprocal phenomenon which has been able to empower Ilam province and determine a great deal of problems of the people and change and recoustruct their lives in different dimensions on one hand and requires traditional costs on the other which is deemed as the unpleasant results of development from the viewpoint of Ilam people. Manuscript profile

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3 - Comparison of social support, coping and family emotional climate and non-sponsored female-headed households in Shiraz
sousan sahami Amaneh Golipoor

The aims of paper was comparison of social support, coping and family emotional climate and non-sponsored female-headed households in Shiraz. Research method was causal-comparative that study sample consisted of 107 households and 107 non-sponsored households. The instr More

The aims of paper was comparison of social support, coping and family emotional climate and non-sponsored female-headed households in Shiraz. Research method was causal-comparative that study sample consisted of 107 households and 107 non-sponsored households. The instrument used for data collection were includes social support scale Phillips (PSSI), Coping Inventory For Stressful Situation (CISS) and family emotional climate questionnaire Bern (BFECQ), respectively. Descriptive and explanation statistical methods were used,  including multivariate analysis of variance (MANVOA) and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Analyzes were performed using software (SPSS) version 21 for data analysis.   Findings showed that except emotional coping style,  the scores mean of women heads of household under is higher the of women non-sponsored households.    Findings showed that are different in between sponsored female-headed households and non-sponsored households in Shiraz in terms of subscales of social support (family, friends and others support), subscales of coping styles (task oriented, emotion oriented, avoiding oriented coping) and emotional family climate (father-son and mother-child climate) at level of p < 0/001. When women heads of households, institutions sponsored the study says, comfort and become more relaxed, less attachment and can spend more warmth and intimacy of their family and their children. Manuscript profile

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4 - A study on the experience of men and women with cancer in Tehran
shamim sherafat kiana taghikhan

Cancer is one of the most common diseases in the world. This condition can affect many aspects of a person's life. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of this disease on the lives of cancer patients and the lived experience of these people. For this purpo More

Cancer is one of the most common diseases in the world. This condition can affect many aspects of a person's life. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of this disease on the lives of cancer patients and the lived experience of these people. For this purpose, 14 women and 6 male heads of households who were selected by snowball method were examined through in-depth semi-structured interviews. The data was examined by MAXQDA program. The findings show that the disease affects people in both economic and social terms. In the economic dimension, the high cost of treatment, then the loss of job and being a consumer disrupts a person's life, and in the social dimension, the experience of feeling rejected, lonely, enduring gender stereotypes, neglecting of some doctors, not allocating enough time for the patient, misdiagnose and humiliation of the charities were among the information found in this research. Manuscript profile

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5 - The Sociological Explanation of Changes in Priority of Value Sestems of the Youth (Case Stady: 15-29 year – old young people in Ardebil)
hasan shiralizadeh mansour haghighatian Asghar mohammadi

The present study aimed at the sociological explanation of the Changes in priority of youth value systems in the study of young people aged 15-29 in Ardebil. Theoretical framework and analytical model were presented using theorizing theories such as Inglehart, Simmel, M More

The present study aimed at the sociological explanation of the Changes in priority of youth value systems in the study of young people aged 15-29 in Ardebil. Theoretical framework and analytical model were presented using theorizing theories such as Inglehart, Simmel, Mead, and Weber. This research was carried out through a survey method. To improve the validity of questionnaire measures, face validity and reliability were also measured using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which was more than 0.70 for all variables. The statistical population of the study consisted of all 15- to 29-year-olds in Ardabil city whose number was reported according to the statistics of Ardabil city of 193826 (95822 males and 98004 girls). 598 of them were selected by using cluster sampling method using Cochran's formula Multi-step as a sample. Data were analyzed by SPSS and Amos software. Findings indicate that independent variables have a significant effect on the use of mass media, religiosity, social networking and communication with reference groups on the dependent variable of value priorities. Also, the results of Friedman's test showed that economic value with the average score of 3.97 is the most important priority of youth value systems, and then social value with an average of 3.23 is in the second rank. The cultural value is also ranked third with an average score of 2.00. Ultimately, the political value with the average score of 1.12 is among the various factors in the last rank. Manuscript profile

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6 - Relationship between socio-cultural factors and the tendency of Tehran youth to public sports
hamed gholampourgaleshkolami khalil mirzaeei Bahram Ghadimi zahra alipourdarvishi

The purpose of the current research is to survey the influence of Social and Cultural factors on youth tendency to public sport. The research is has been conducted by applied method  in its goal and by descriptive one in its path. The  population of the resear More

The purpose of the current research is to survey the influence of Social and Cultural factors on youth tendency to public sport. The research is has been conducted by applied method  in its goal and by descriptive one in its path. The  population of the research includes all youth in Tehran (about 3040248 person) from which 370 ones were selected in accordance with De Israeil (2008 online) sample size table the size has been increased to 400 for accuracy and has been choosen through the multi-stage cluster random sampling. The Data gathered by the standard questionnaires of the social support, the social acceptance, the social capital, the social favorite behavior, the cultural capital, the cultural intelligence and the religious orientation along with researcher made one about public sport with the CVR: of 0/860 and the content validity: of 0/776 and the reliability: of 0/894. the data has been analysed by the Pearson correlation & liner Regression and the results shows that lack of social capital, social favorite behavior and social support affect significantly on public behavior and lack of social acceptance, cultural intelligence, cultural capital and belief and value orientations did not affect on public sport. Manuscript profile

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7 - distinction or similarity?Investigating the cultural and artistic taste change in the age of modern communication media (Case study: citizens of Ahwaz)
amir farokhvandi Hossahn AGHAJANI Mehrdad Navabakhsh soroush Fathi

Human beings have experienced many changes in their aesthetic tastes and values throughout their lives. For this reason, different approaches have been proposed in the history of thought to explain these changes, which in this research have been referred to sociological More

Human beings have experienced many changes in their aesthetic tastes and values throughout their lives. For this reason, different approaches have been proposed in the history of thought to explain these changes, which in this research have been referred to sociological opinions.This research has been done with the aim of measuring the cultural and artistic taste of Ahwaz citizens, studying distinc factors affecting it sociologically and investigating similarity of taste in effect virtual social networks. By interviewing the most important indexes related to cultural and artistic taste were identified and then, using the Survey method, citizens of Ahwaz were studied. By testing the research hypothesis, it was found that 7 variables studied, included gender, type of job, ethnicity, educational level, economic capital, cultural capital and socioeconomic class, are factors affect on cultural and artistic tastes of Ahwaz citizens which makes it distinct and it was found that the use of virtual social networks makes similarity in tastes. Manuscript profile

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8 - The sociological analysis of people interpretation from Family life changes (case study: Marivan city)
Ako kohnapooshi Alireza kaldi Seyed Mohammad Seyedmirzaie

During the recent decades, Iranian family’s life, under the effect of various factors, has differentiated it form past species. The purpose of this study is to investigate the deep perception of life experience about present characteristics and features of family. More

During the recent decades, Iranian family’s life, under the effect of various factors, has differentiated it form past species. The purpose of this study is to investigate the deep perception of life experience about present characteristics and features of family. The procedure in the present study is a kind of social interpretivism. And this study is a qualitative research too. The data are based on Ethnography techniques (open and, unstructured interviews), and they are collected among Marivan inhabitants based on basis of purposive and theoretical sampling and finally they have been analyzed on the basis of Grounded Theory and the results have been presented in terms of paradigmatic pattern. The main purpose of this research is to investigate people perception and interpretation of qualities and characteristics of present family from the participants point of view. The findings include 24 themes, 5 detailed categories (modern factor entrance acceptance, individualism desires, value change and social – economical promotion), two main categories are (modernization phenomenon and renovated family). The core category is “family in transition”. The results of the study show that various characteristics and qualities in appearing in the present life of marivan’s society. Furthermore, based on the perception and changes of people of this society, the family, has gained various and especially separate characteristics under the effect of divergent forces, including modernization factors.  Manuscript profile

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9 - relationship between Virtual Social Networks and Religion Aversion (Case Study: youth 15 to 29 years old in District 15 of Tehran)
Nazanin Malekian hasan jokar ghomi

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between virtual networks and Religion aversion of youth. In this research, the theoretical framework is based on Berger and Luckmann's social construction theories, Giddens theory and the theory of use an More

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between virtual networks and Religion aversion of youth. In this research, the theoretical framework is based on Berger and Luckmann's social construction theories, Giddens theory and the theory of use and gratification. The present research is correlational and survey method. The statistical population is all 15-29-year-old youth in district 15 of Tehran which randomly by cluster sampling method and based on the Cochran formula, 380 people was selected. The data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire. In this research, data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression. The results of the research have shown that the use of social, cultural and religious functions of virtual social networks is moderate average, and youngest people are believed to be in The low-believer group. The results indicate that there is a negative and significant correlation between the virtual social networks and the religion aversion of youth. There is a meaningful relationship between the cultural functions of virtual social networks and religion aversion of youth. And also there is a negative and meaningful relationship between the religious functions of virtual social networks and religion aversion of youth. Regression and path analysis results show that the social functions of social networks have had the greatest impact on religion aversion of youth. Virtual social networks have been able to distinguish 20.7% of the variance of the dependent variable of religious aversion among youth. Manuscript profile

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10 - A meta-analysis of studies on factors affecting emotional divorce in Iran society
mohsen niyazi somayeh miri hadi afra

Emotional divorce is one of the most important social issues affecting families in contemporary societies. In a way that has sparked a lot of studies. Therefore, it is essential to conduct research that can get the existing research main extract. The purpose of the pres More

Emotional divorce is one of the most important social issues affecting families in contemporary societies. In a way that has sparked a lot of studies. Therefore, it is essential to conduct research that can get the existing research main extract. The purpose of the present study is to apply meta-analysis to analyze and combine the results of studies on factors affecting emotional divorce. The statistical population consists of all articles on emotional divorce among Iranian families between the years of 1390 and 1396. According to the meta-analysis criteria, 5 articles on emotional divorce were selected from the 60 articles published in databases and reviewed by meta-analysis software. Initial investigations indicate the heterogeneity of effect size and lack of bias in publication studies. Also, the effect sizes of the variables of the religiosity of the couples are 0.316, the families’ involvement 0.303, the power structure in the family 0.387, which is evaluated in terms of the average to top from Cohen interpretive system. Manuscript profile

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