Sociological studies: 2 (19)

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1 - The role of cultural capital and class discrimination in forming and compiling music sociologyEmphasizing on Bourdieu, Adorno and Peterson’s views
amirmasuod amir mazaheri

The study of music sociology is an important issue due to many reasons, and it has deep dimensional aesthetic and epistemology.Asthe day passes perspective and the procedure of music consumption changes and also the way to receive and apply it, is different due to More

The study of music sociology is an important issue due to many reasons, and it has deep dimensional aesthetic and epistemology.Asthe day passes perspective and the procedure of music consumption changes and also the way to receive and apply it, is different due to technology progress. Music fills human leisure and loneliness, and sometimes carrying a superior mental world. All of these conceptions indicate that music has been largely mixed with human entity. Among sociologists' opinions, there are seven generations of study about sociology that each examines music sociology in a way. Among these opinions, it can be mentioned that Pierre Bourdieu's was the most impressive one that has opened a new aspect in the study of cultural consumption through developing the concepts such as lifestyle, cultural capital, class reproduction and the most important, discrimination. Present paper based on theoretical principles, and different generations of theorists of music sociology such as Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor Adorno and Richard Peterson. First a preface on music sociology, its problematic dimensions, theoretical discussions and approaches of each of the respective theorists have been provided and in this regard the writer’s approach and outlook in terms of this issue and consequently, conclusions and summation have been addressed. Unlike Bourdieu predictions allowing a particular pattern of consumption in this class, it has been shown that medium class consumers have an art taste and consumption away from aesthetic and epistemology principles. For more exploration in the concepts of Bourdieu’s theoretical popularism framework, an anthropological view to music consumption shows that, diversity in the popularism pattern of music consumption is related to rich class consumers. That is, the type and diversity of rich class consumption in music is more diversified such as other aspects. In other words, higher social classes correlate with various tastes and different applications of techniques that release the consumer from passive modes of music application and this configures various levels of economic, social, cultural capital and structural restrictions of issues. Thus, their interests in music aspects and technological media lead to their consumption. Consequently, a combination of these three capitals results to the perception of common consumption of higher class. Manuscript profile

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2 - The Relationship between social satisfaction and high school teachers’ social responsibility in Ajabshir
Khadija Sadeghian Mahmood Elmi

This article seeks to determine the relationship between social satisfaction and high school teachers’ social responsibility in Ajabshir. In this regard, hypothesis of Allen vemire, Homenz exchange theory, Durkheim, parsons and etc… were used and also, prev More

This article seeks to determine the relationship between social satisfaction and high school teachers’ social responsibility in Ajabshir. In this regard, hypothesis of Allen vemire, Homenz exchange theory, Durkheim, parsons and etc… were used and also, previous studies and researches were concluded in order to explain the variables. The research method is survey and the data collected by a questionnaire. Theoretical texts and experimental literature were collected by documentary method.Statistical population of the study were all working teachers (301) in Ajabshir in 92-93 educational year from whom 170 teachers were selected as a sample of the study using stratified random sampling method. The validity and reliability of the study were determined through face validity and Cronbach alpha respectively. To test the hypothesis, Pearson correlation techniques, mean test (t-test) and one way ANOVA used by SPSS version 16. The results show that, there is a positive and meaningful relationship between social responsibility with its dimensions (as an independent variable) and social satisfaction (as dependent variable). Also, there is a meaningful difference between underlying variables (gender and education) with teachers’ social responsibility. However, there is no meaningful difference between marital status and social responsibility. At the end, the significance level of teachers’ social responsibility is higher than average and the significance level of teachers’ social satisfaction is at average.  Manuscript profile

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3 - Identifying Associated Factors with Trends of Globalization of culture among Students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz
Khosro Akbari Hussein Mirzaei tavakkol aghayari

Present Study has been accomplished in order to identify associated factors with the trend of globalization of culture among students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz. The key question is that, what are the Factors influencing Students’ trends toward cultural More

Present Study has been accomplished in order to identify associated factors with the trend of globalization of culture among students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz. The key question is that, what are the Factors influencing Students’ trends toward cultural globalization? This research is a survey and the population is all students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz and the sample is 377 students determined by Cochran formula and stratified sampling method. Measuring instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The data was analyzed using the SPSS 21 software and t-test, ANOVA and One-way Pearson methods are used to examine the relationship between variables.                                                          The results show that there is a relationship between national identity, social trust and ethnic identity with cultural globalization. The findings of this study confirm the theoretical perspective of sociologists such as Giddens, Robertson, Putnam and Weber.                                                                                                                  Manuscript profile

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4 - The comparative study of consuming lifestyle between employed and housewives in Miyaneh
Morsal Shokri Mohammad Abbaszadeh

Lifestyle is one of the most important phenomena in present investigations that mentions the collections of behaviors, patterns and people or groups’ way of thinking in life. These reasons cause the difference between people and groups. The purpose of this study i More

Lifestyle is one of the most important phenomena in present investigations that mentions the collections of behaviors, patterns and people or groups’ way of thinking in life. These reasons cause the difference between people and groups. The purpose of this study is the comparison of consuming life style between employed and housewives in Miyaneh. These investigations were done on the basis of Bourdieu, Weber and Zimeal Ideas. The method of research was survey and the population includes all employed women and housewives in Miyaneh, consisting of all married and family heads. The sample was 400 women using Cochran formula. The method of sampling is random selection in which first, employed women were separated from housewives, and then 200 women were selected randomly from each group. To gather the data a researcher-made questionnaire was used and the data analysis was conducted by SPSS. The results show that there is a significant difference between consuming lifestyle of employed women and housewives in a way that the employed women’s average of lifestyle components (body management, the pattern of buying clothes, nutrition pattern, selection place of residence) is higher than that of housewives. But in relation to leisure activities, housewives’ average is higher than employed women.   Manuscript profile

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5 - Indigenous knowledge of using offorest and Pastureland in Rustam Township
Mansour Vosoughi masoume faridi sani

In this study Indigenous knowledge of using of forest and Pastureland in Rustam Township has been investigated. Some regions of central part of Rustam were considered and from those regions some villages that were rich in indigenous knowledge were selected. Finally, the More

In this study Indigenous knowledge of using of forest and Pastureland in Rustam Township has been investigated. Some regions of central part of Rustam were considered and from those regions some villages that were rich in indigenous knowledge were selected. Finally, the sample of the study was chosen using snowball method. In this study, the techniques of participant observation, free observation, semi-structured interviews and documents were used. The results show that, indigenous knowledge is not only opposed to modernization of indigenous knowledge and development but also it can be a criterion for regional development. Also, it can be concluded that, modernization programs in our country that had been appeared as land reform, caused the major changes in the structure of the sample, the division of labor exploitation activists and their stratification. As a result of this, along changing in society and lifestyles in this region, the exploitation of indigenous knowledge has been weakened and at present time this knowledge is deteriorated. Manuscript profile

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6 - The relationship between social acceptance and skill among students of Islamic Azad University of Shabestar
masoume faridi sani

This study examined the relationship between social acceptance and social skills among students of Islamic Azad University of Shabestar. The main objective of the study is understanding the social acceptance rate among students and comparingthem based on factors such as More

This study examined the relationship between social acceptance and social skills among students of Islamic Azad University of Shabestar. The main objective of the study is understanding the social acceptance rate among students and comparingthem based on factors such as gender, their majors and age and also examining its relationship with social skills.The research method is correlation of social acceptance ofCrown-Marlow and the data was collected by researcher-made  questionnaire  that include  some  items  for  measuring  related  factors  such as gender, social skills  and other variables. The sample size includes 400studentswho werechosenby classified– random sampling method. Correlationcoefficients, T-test and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data .The   results show that, the social acceptance is at highest percentage. Also, there is no significant difference between genders,but there is significant difference between studying majors. Appropriate skills are the most important factors associated withsocial acceptance.  Manuscript profile

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7 - Examining the relationship between social capital and life quality in Sagez
ahmad ghaderi Nematollah Tagavi

Social capital is a quite new concept in the realm of sociology which rapidly has found its place in different fields of science such as medicine, psychology, economics, politics, urban planning, etc. Social capital has a close relationship with the quality of life and More

Social capital is a quite new concept in the realm of sociology which rapidly has found its place in different fields of science such as medicine, psychology, economics, politics, urban planning, etc. Social capital has a close relationship with the quality of life and this relationship can be a gateway for the conception of social capital toward urban planning. The aim of this study is measuring the relationship between social capital with quality of life among Sagez inhabitants. The method of research is survey. This survey contains 69 questions, certified by some professors of sociology and its stability is based on pre-test method via Alpha kronbach (0/90). This survey covers samples of 382 inhabitants and SPSS has been used in order to elicit the results of the survey. The results show that there is a meaningful relationship (with confidence coefficient of 99 percent) between quality of life and social capital, social trust, social involvement, social network, participants’ income level, and participants’ education. Also, among variables that have been studied, social trust with the highest correlation coefficient has increasing effect(r=0/559) on the quality of people lives. Manuscript profile

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8 - Sociological Study of Tendency toward Western Values Emphasizing on the Degree andKind of Internet Social Networks(Case Study of Young People in Khalkhal)
Behrad Bakhtiari Eghbaleh Azizkhani

The present research was conducted to sociologically study the tendency toward western values emphasizing on the degree and kind of use of internet social networks by young people in Khalkhal. Ball Wreckage and DE flour’s Dependency theory, Castells’ Network More

The present research was conducted to sociologically study the tendency toward western values emphasizing on the degree and kind of use of internet social networks by young people in Khalkhal. Ball Wreckage and DE flour’s Dependency theory, Castells’ Network Society and Stewart Hall’s Coding and Decoding pattern were used as theoretical basis for this research; on which the hypotheses of research were formed. The hypotheses consisted of the impact of degree and kind of use of internet social networks on the tendency toward individualism, materialism, looseness of religious values and tendency toward western lifestyle.The research method is survey and a researcher-made questionnaire is used to collect data. The statistical population consisted of Iranian members of internet social network, and the sample was 300 active and on-line members of Facebook who were selected by immediate and nonprobable sampling method. The results indicate that, there is a meaningful relationship between degree and kind of use of internet social networks and tendency toward individualism, materialism, looseness of religious values, and western lifestyle.  Manuscript profile

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