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{"title":"Integrated Model for Understanding and Enhancing Green Purchase Behavioral Intention: Directions for Future Research","authors":"T. Velnampy, Achchuthan Sivapalan","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9541","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental management and protection take prominent place in the globe, where environmental pollution already stressed the bio – diversity. In Globalized level, policy makers, marketers and general public also pronounce environmental protection and its benefits. In line with above arguments, green marketing was selected as theme to ground the research. In the green marketing paradigm, green consumerism was selected as the main theme. In line with above facts, the integrated conceptual model was developed to predict the purchase intention and behavior towards green products. Altogether, seven antecedents as environmental attitude, environmental concern, perceived consumer effectiveness, health consciousness, social influence, media influence and perceived government initiatives were incorporated in to the proposed model. Therefore, the proposed model is considered as the comprehensive one to predict the intention towards green products. Further, this model can be applied in globalized level among consumers to predict the purchase intention and behavior towards green products.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130641293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Educational Leadership and Motivation in the School Unit","authors":"E. Lekka, V. Brinia, P. Chatzipanagiotou","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9251","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the significance of the teachers’ motivation by the principal of their school and its correlation with the effectiveness of the school unit. The research was conducted in a sample of school principals with the method of the anonymous questionnaire. The sample was school principals whose schools are located in the Greek capital, Athens. The school principals have full awareness of the difficulties and the responsibilities that result from their multidimensional role in the Greek educational system. They believe, however, that they can achieve the goals of their school with a spirit of collaboration.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115918433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neighborhoods and Social Interactions: The Case of Al-Najada Area in Doha","authors":"B. Eissa, Rana Awwad, Reem Awwaad, R. Furlan","doi":"10.5923/J.SOCIOLOGY.20150504.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5923/J.SOCIOLOGY.20150504.03","url":null,"abstract":"Cities provide places for people to live, work, learn and socialize. As urban environments, cities nowadays are typically characterized by urban sprawl in which open public spaces (1) are neglected and/or (2) social interactions are discouraged. In fact, the encouragement of social interactions among neighbors is a vital factor implementing livability among city dwellers. Recent evidence suggests that social interactions occur infrequently in contemporary urban neighborhoods. Therefore, it is worth investigating how communities can be designed in the future with the aim to increase social interactions. Al-Najada area in Doha provides a useful case study because it is a traditional area, built based on formal social structures aiming to the formation of social interaction in old neighborhoods (which is called Fereej in Arabic). This paper investigated how the urban fabric of Al-Najada area can be implemented in order to enhance social interactions and become an effective sample of sustainable development. Also, this paper examined the factors that contribute to socially sustainable development in the regeneration of Al-Najada as a traditional asset in the heart of Doha. Literature review is conducted on topics of sustainable urbanism, urban sociology, and built heritage to learn about design implementation in order to enhance social interactions within the urban fabric of neighborhoods. Therefore, content analysis, site observations, and walking tour assessments are adopted as the main research methods in order to investigate how social interactions at Al-Najada area can be encouraged, namely how the spatial form can be implemented in order to enhance social interactions. The research study findings led to the definition of a set of recommendations for a design approach, based on smart planning and design guidelines, aiming at implementing Al-Najada neighborhood in order to facilitate social interactions. The recommendations are genuinely plan-led, empowering local people to shape their surroundings, with concise neighborhood plans setting out a positive vision for the future of Al-Najada area.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124352234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Quest for Workers’ Social Security in the era of Globalized Labour Arrangements: a Synthesis of Labour Studies","authors":"Danstan Mukono","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9017","url":null,"abstract":"International social change has generated   scholarly debates on the process and impacts of globalization on the labour arrangement with specific attention to the livelihood of workers. In this review of interdisciplinary research, we put together and review from the labour and social security research papers analysing the trend and dimensions of labour flexibility in the contemporary society and discuss them in a more reflective way to make it available with a purpose of establishing research interests in the sociology of work and social security. We also delineate various forms of social insecurities that are dominant in different organization by drawing evidence from a multiple of studies conducted both from developed and developing countries. Finally, we points out the likely policy implications and recommend that the concern is to address inequalities and determining what socio-economic security forms that are supportive.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125063399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Non-response in an International Mixed Self-Administered Survey","authors":"Vidal Díaz de Rada Igúzquiza","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I1.9114","url":null,"abstract":"The reduction of nonresponse is one of the greatest challenges facing survey research in the 21st century. This paper compared the non-responses obtained with two self-administered questionnaires to a general population survey, and it compares nonresponses identified for every one. In the current study, from the 13,164 interviews sent that were not responded to, 2,480 were due to the letters being returned unopened. This is a large group, 15.8% of the initial sample. The first wave achieved a cooperation rate (COOP2) of 15.66%, and the second 9.5%. Despite this reduced response rate, there was no difference for gender and level of studies, while regarding age, a lower rate of participation was seen among the young and a greater participation among the old. As regards the geographic areas, nonresponse is higher in Maghreb and Latin American countries. Two in every three citizens in the European contries did not respond, a percentage that is reduced to 58% in North America. The response rate, often used as an indicator of survey quality (2006among others, Stoop, 2005; Beullens & Loosveldt, 2012), does not always indicate biased estimates. The same is true here: a subsequent survey, conducted by telephone, with high levels of cooperation, showed behavioral and attitudinal traits similar to those detected in the study that used a self-administered questionnaire.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"422 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122956483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moderation Movement in Iran; Moving between Liberalism and Religious Intellectualism","authors":"A. Amini, A. Rahmani","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I1.8757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I1.8757","url":null,"abstract":"If we consider the moderation movement as a political method, this method can get help from other thoughts and discourses for reaching its desired goal. Accordingly, it seems that this movement can be defined as a thought derived from two discourses. One of them, as the dominant discourse in the global system, is called liberalism and its tolerance and moderation can be observed from John Rawls’s political thought to recent thinkers like John Walls and social righteousness discourse and the proponents of liberal democracy. The other discourse, religious intellectualism in Iran, has emphasized the need for reforms, tolerance, moderation and avoidance of extremes after 1982s. Nowadays it seems that there is no country which does not benefit from the parameters of liberalism like human rights’ discourse, democracy, tolerance, secularism, supporting the rule of law, etc. in its slogans and policies. On the other hand, religious intellectualism in Iran, as a known movement from previous decades up to now, has made an attempt to reconcile religion with the modern world and its political thought is based on such concepts as democracy, tolerance, human rights, spiritual wisdom, etc. This paper aimed to completely describe the main concepts of liberalism as a political philosophy and then religious intellectualism in Iran and reach a comprehensive view of the political thought in the moderation movement. Accordingly, the main question of the study can be posed as “to what extent can the moderation movement be influenced by other discourses dominant in the global system (liberalism) and the religious intellectualism movement?” Undoubtedly, in this study we do not intend to prove that liberalism and religious intellectualism or moderation are the same and the discussion and arguments made in this paper are in line with the effects that moderation has received from external (liberalism) and internal (religious intellectualism) sources. Descriptive-analytic and descriptive-historical methods were used for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126825279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The School Career and the Educational Exclusion of the Roma Children in Greece","authors":"C. Tourtouras, M. Korre, Argyrios Kyridis","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I1.8964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I1.8964","url":null,"abstract":"The school career of Roma children in Greece is inevitable connected with their social and educational exclusion from Greek society. The present article examines the main factors which affect the educational status of Roma children and presents a survey which was conducted in the area of Thessaloniki in northern Greece focusing on the school career of 117 Roma children. Following their educational course from primary to secondary school and high school, the survey highlights an extended school failure of Roma children, as there is still a large percentage of children not attending school or presenting poor attendance and leakage from the school system. The survey confirms that for school to become accessible, attractive and effective for children belonging to cultural, ethnic and social minority groups, specific characteristics of each group should be taken into account in the content of analytical school programs across the educational process.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121483191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Barriers to Implementation of Information and Communication (ICT) in Public Sudanese Secondary Schools: Teacher’s Prospective","authors":"Abdelwahed Elsafi Elemam","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V7I1.8956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V7I1.8956","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the current situation of ICT implementation at five public secondary schools in Sudan. The study adopted the quantitative method where a sample of five secondary schools was selected. A total of 40 secondary school teachers responded to the designed questionnaire. By using Statistic Package of Social Science (SPSS), the data was analyzed. The findings indicate that the ICT implementation at the five secondary schools was poorly achieved, and school teachers still have not acquired the necessary skills of ICT that enable them to implement ICT in classrooms. Further, the lack financial support, insufficient existence of computer labs, low internet connectivity, inadequate technical support and lack of time were main barriers that prevent the implementation of ICT in schools.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116648484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Relationship Between Irritable Bowel Syndrome , Depression , Anxiety, and Stress among a Sample of Irritable Bowel Patients - Predictive Study","authors":"O. Gaber","doi":"10.5296/jsr.v7i1.9062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/jsr.v7i1.9062","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to examine the relationship of irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, depression and stress among a sample of78 IBS patients (Rome III Diagnostic Criteria for Irritable Bowel Syndrome),anxiety symptoms scale ,Depression symptoms scale ,and stress scale (prepared by the researcher) were used Pearson Correlation Coefficient showed that there are statistically significant relationship between IBS and Anxiety ,Depression and Stress (P≤=0.01).The Regression and Prediction Coefficient (stepwise) was also used and showed that the depression and Stress of predicts to IBS.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128210219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Relationship between Quality of Working Life and Job Involvement of Employees in Chamran Hospital","authors":"Zeinab Sirous Jahedi, A. Reyshahri","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I2.8980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I2.8980","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was conducted with the aim of representing the relationship between quality of work and work attachment of employees in Chamran hospital in Saveh in 2015. The research was practical in terms of objective and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection. The population consisted of 300 employees of Chamran hospital in Saveh among whom 169 individuals were chosen as a sample size using simple random sampling method and Morgan table. Data collection was carried out through standard questionnaire. Analysis of the obtained data was performed using SPSS 21 software in two parts of descriptive and inferential (Regression and Pearson Correlation). The results indicated that there is a significant and positive relationship between quality of working life and its dimensions including fair payment, safe and healthy working environment, providing opportunities for continuous growth and security, legalism, social solidarity and cohesion, and development of human capabilities with job involvement of employees in Chamran hospital in Saveh.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122886529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}