Ardeshir Fathalian, R. Akbarzadeh, Ahmad Hosein Falahi
{"title":"Investigating the Juristic basis of State and Provincial Commands in the Civil Lawof Islamic Republic of Iran","authors":"Ardeshir Fathalian, R. Akbarzadeh, Ahmad Hosein Falahi","doi":"10.5296/jsr.v6i2.8086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/jsr.v6i2.8086","url":null,"abstract":"Governmental commands are commands which the ruler of the society prescribes according to the predicted legal terms and the general well beings of the Muslims to protect the safety of the society and resolve the deadlocks. Guardian jurist's (Vilayat-e Faghih's) and supreme ruler's range of authorizations are complete and full so that Imam Khomeini announced that guardianship should include all issues for which the prophet of Islam and Shia Imams have a responsibility towards it. This study made an attempt to investigate the juristic principles of governmental commands in civil code of the Islamic Republic of Iran.The basis and evidence of the subject were referred to from Quran, narrations, Islamic jurists' and scholar's opinions and the intuition viewpoint. In the civil law of the Islamic Republic of Iran, there are some clauses like 56, 77, 79, 81, 171, 1029, and 1130 which are representative of the influence of governmental command by the supreme leader.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115888022","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":"Explaining Lifestyle Influenced by the Virtual Space and Its Impact on Social Capital (Case Study of Young People Aged 15-34 years in Isfahan, 2015)","authors":"Z. Taheri, Ali Hashemianfar, A. Rabbani","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I2.8087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I2.8087","url":null,"abstract":"Social media and in particular cyberspace have created many changes in the lives and lifestyles of people. The causes and degree of the tendency of people to the space are different under the influence of individual characteristics and social factors. The consequences of such a lifestyle are different. According to the sociologists specializing in this field, one of the consequences is the growth and consolidation of the social capitals. Social capital is a product of individual or collective investment and strategies in the creation and reproduction of social communication either consciously or unconsciously. The purpose of this paper is to explain the lifestyle influenced by the cyberspace and its impact on social capital in both real and virtual worlds via a survey among 361 young people aged 15-34 years in Isfahan in 2015. The target citizens were selected as the participants using a quota sampling method. Data analysis was done using SPSS and Amos Software. These are the most important findings of this study: The mean score of the lifestyle influenced by the virtual space is the same between men and women. The mean score of the lifestyle influenced by the cyberspace is different in terms of age, socio-economic base, educational level, marital status and style of living. There is a direct relationship between the lifestyle influenced by cyberspace and social capital in the real world. But social capital in the virtual world does not find such relationship. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) of the study also indicates no confirmed data collected by the theoretical framework of research.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129723239","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":"Training, development and performance (Case study of the Albanian Public Administration)","authors":"Gentiana Kraja","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7905","url":null,"abstract":"Training and development as a practice and procedure of procedures undertaken for the improvement of employee's performance in terms of his attitude, skills, knowledge and behavior has become a very important practice in human resource management in successful organizations. The realization of this practice in its full range of public organizations is a real challenge, it's because public organizations often operate under a strict legal framework and of these practices use and flexibility and efficiency is difficult. The main purpose of this paper is to present the main theoretical approaches related to training in public administration all specials presents this practice in the budgetary sectors. Further, in a more practical level, other purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship of training with performance seen in two levels; individual and organizational. To realize the goals of this paper are following two main ways. Initially he conducted a theoretical picture of attitudes to assess performance and its position in view of the performance of public administrator. Later in order to answer to key questions of research is designed and distributed a questionnaire on the Albanian public administration whose data are processed further. At the end of this work based on literature review and practical results reflected some recommendations and conclusions.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"288 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132490215","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":"Health Identity: Theoretical and empirical development of a health education concept","authors":"D. Grabowski","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7754","url":null,"abstract":"In school-based health education, it is often difficult to present health in ways children and adolescents accept as relevant and meaningful. This often results in misconceived approaches that have little or no effect on acquisition of health knowledge or changes in health behaviour. Many approaches only manage to appeal to children and adolescents who are already healthy. One way to approach this is to look at the role identity plays in health. Implementing a concept of identity within health education poses two main challenges, which are addressed in the objectives of the present paper: to theoretically and empirically develop a concept of health identity, and to make this concept useable in health education practice. Against the backdrop of these challenges and objectives, the paper proposes the following definition of a concept of health identity: “Children’s and adolescents' observations and expectations concerning their own health, their knowledge about health and in what ways their health is related and comparable to the health of others.” This health identity concept – based on Luhmann’s theories of observation and expectational structures supplemented with Taylor’s theories on social imaginaries and horizons of significance – provides a new framework for identity theory and health education research and development.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129938552","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":"Explaining the Type of Audience Attitude toward the Content of Religious Medium (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) (Case Study)","authors":"T. R. Arbatani, Somayeh Labafi","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7506","url":null,"abstract":"This article is written to theoretically and empirically explain analytical model. In the model, audience attitude toward the content of religious medium (IRIB) is defined as internal variable and the aspects of audience religiosity, his religious knowledge, and type of religiosity as external variables. Each of the variables formulated in research model has theoretical bases. Research method is survey. Data was collected using a handmade questionnaire which was reliable and valid based on test. The statistical population of the study consisted of Isfahan people (n=300). They were randomly sampled. In this study, the effect of aspects of audience religiosity, type of his religiosity and religious knowledge on his attitude toward the content of religious medium is examined in terms of several hypotheses. The analytical model of the study is designed using AMOS. Model fit indices show that Chi square index indicates numerical value of 3.28. Based on what Schumacher and Lomax (2009) suggest as acceptable (i.e. if it is between 1 and 5), it is a good value. In addition to the above index, other indices are also computed for respective model. One of them is Root Mean Square Error of Estimation (RMSEA). It is obtained 0.078 (i.e. <0.08).","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127558832","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":"Capturing Agency and Voice in Research: A Critical Review of Studies of Youth Unemployment, Self-employment and the Informal Sector in Botswana","authors":"Latang Sechele","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7572","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews literature on youth unemployment and self-employment as well as the informal sector in Botswana and the extent to which young people feature as agents in these studies. It pays attention to their areas of focus, research questions, and methodologies employed to understand the situation of youth unemployment and self-employment. One key finding coming from this review is that most of research portrays young people as overwhelmed by structural constraints and no attention is paid to their agency in the form of their perceptions of the situations they encounter as well as the strategies they use to respond to constraints and enablements. The article concludes by way of suggesting the methods and use of theoretical frameworks that would give a voice to young people as agents, which researchers should pay attention to in research designs.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116981211","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":"Effects of proprioception training on knee joint position sense in male soccer athletes","authors":"M. Alhajaya","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7544","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to examine the effect of proprioception training program on knee joint position sense in male soccer athletes. Reproduction of knee joint angle by a passive (by the examiner) - active (by the subjects) positioning was employed to measure joint position sense. Thirty male athletes (N=30) were participated in this study from Sports Science faculty at Mutah University whom registered in soccer course for Fall semester 2013/2014. The researcher used the non-dominant as an experimental limb and underwent proprioceptive training program and dominant as a control limb. The researcher used paired-sample and independent-samples-t- Test to analyse the absolute angles score of present study. Results indicated that there was a significant difference of reproduction of the knee joint angle before and after intervention training for the non-dominant limb and a significant difference between dominant and non-dominant limb after intervention training program, (p ≤ 0.05). It was suggested that using a proprioception training program may have a direct impact in decreasing knee joint injuries in male soccer athletes. Key words : proprioception, joint position sense, reproduce joint angle, male soccer athletes, training program.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132438899","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":"Ethnic Identity and Cultural Elements: Students' Views","authors":"Panagiotis Giavrimis, Emmanouil Tsagkatos, Vicky Sargioti","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7116","url":null,"abstract":"Ethnic identity, as a symbolic construction, is structured through a complex and multi-faceted process, which is in constant evolution. From childhood to adolescence ethnic identity is shaped by experiences and representations, whereas the importance that children give in ethnic identity is growing year by year. The purpose of this paper is to explore the aspects of Greek students’ ethnic identity in compulsory education and their association with the feeling of origin and the preservation of cultural elements. The sample is composed of 327 students in Chios island. In conclusion, an ambivalence emerges in the formation of ethnic identity, which highlights the acculturational osmosis of the islands in the North Aegean Sea, in an era of ' fluidity ' and social interdependencies that spread from local to global environment.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130237548","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":"Searching for absents: The State of things for the Neets (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training) in Greece. An overview","authors":"N. Papadakis, Argyris Kyridis, Antonis Papargyris","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7228","url":null,"abstract":"Neets (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training) is a distinctive social group which includes all the major characteristics of a contemporary social pathogeny. In Europe, only a few pieces of research have been carried out in order to determine the population and its characteristics which consist this social group. We tried to investigate the formation of Neets in Greece and to determine the characteristics of the persons who could be categorized as Neet. The percentage of Neets, as demonstrated by the findings of the survey \"Barometer of Absents\", is particularly high in Greece. The biographical rupture which a NEET has suffered and the vulnerability which he/she undergoes do not prevent him/her from redrawing his/her life orbit and from highlighting broader proposals to address social vulnerability and mitigate social inequalities. The quantitative mapping of NEETs based also on specific demographic characteristics, as well as the recording of the qualitative characteristics of an undoubtedly multi-parametric phenomenon are leading to the conclusion that in Greece is required a combined, multi-layered and targeted intervention that can re-integrate Neets.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125057495","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 Importance of Corporate Social Responsibility","authors":"Sanie Doda","doi":"10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JSR.V6I1.7426","url":null,"abstract":"The history of the social responsibility of CSR corporation and their companies lays in over one hundred fifty years. The word “company” derives by the two Latin words “cum” and “pains” , that mean “to share the food together”. Despite the negative sides and distortions, this term lately , is translated by the result of a widely usage as an instrument for the public relations (PR). CSR represents the idea of an ethical organization, that has social obligations and that can take responsibilities as the individuals can do. The high rhythm of the technological advances,services and new products that change in a constantly way the needs and desires, the innovative ideas, the similarities and the business requests to exceed and the consumer’s expectations. All these factors that contribute for the crossing of a society oriented in goods into a society oriented in persons. The lack or the absence of realization and the sense of the cause, the weak role of society in relations take and give to the CSR’s business and the legal frame in equation to support the increase of community’s commitment are the factors which contribute in the concentration of the CSR on the business side. In developed countries the business should take the direction and involve operations with social commitment and manners. Meanwhile the governments should behave like a “laissez faire” to encourage the civil orientation and the consumption interests groups.","PeriodicalId":239220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sociological Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121988146","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}