فصلنامه راهبرد اجتماعی فرهنگی
پیاپی 16 (پاییز 1394)

Religion equipped man with its guidelines and specific rules, so that he can refuse some behaviors with self-control. Self-control uses a psychological support column in countless mental and behavioral tendencies in humans. The present article seeks to explore the relationship between religiosity, self-control and deviant behaviors among Mazandaran university students. This is a survey research and data collection instrument is questionnaire. The study population consisted of all male and female students at Mazandaran University in the academic year 2013-14, 416 students were selected and studied with stratified sampling method appropriate with volume. The analytical results show a significant and meaningful inverse relationship between self-control and piety with deviant behaviors. However, there is no significant correlation between religiosity and self-control. In other words, self-control doesn’t have the role of the mediator to strengthen religiosity and independently affect deviant behavior.

The study of the mutual relationship between religion and moral commitment has been an issue of discussions. Although more recent debates tend to the independence of morality and religion, it is commonly believed that religiosity support moral sphere. Functionalist sociologists also argue that religiosity has mainly a positive impact on individuals’ moral behavior which in turn could result in better regulation of social relations, respect of others rights, interaction based on understanding of others. The aim of this article is the empirical examination of the relationship between religiosity and moral commitment in a sample of 372 students of Kharazmi University of Tehran. It is a survey study in which the data collected by a questionnaire. According to the data, religiosity has a positive relation with moral commitment, meanwhile the relationship is hardly observed in social dimension of moral commitment. There is no difference between the relationship of moral commitment and different dimensions of religiosity. The implications of these findings are discussed in the article.

Islamic futures studies (IFS) is a new interpretation of common futures studies which has not been practically shaped yet. To accomplish IFS it should be considered that futures studies relies on future thinking the foundation of both these two is the attitude of society. These three, shape a system, namely “Attitude-Futures Studies” which visualizes theoretical and applied dimensions of futures studies. This article tries find out the key infrastructure for accomplishing IFS. Therefore, in spite of introducing the “Attitude-Futures Studies” system, it is concluded that IFS will shape within the Islamic “Attitude-Futures Studies” system. The Islamic and common systems are not completely independent and besides their differences they have some similarities. However the similarities are so few in fundamentals and macro-levels. Also the Islamic religion is not the major difference among them and the temporal and spatial circumstances of the accomplishment of “Attitude-Futures Studies” system can unfold some new differences between the two systems.

The purpose of this article is to determine and compare student’s identity status in first and last semesters. The research was a survey type and data were collected through literature review and field method (questionnaire). Statistical population was composed of all first – semester and last – semester students in six branches of Islamic Azad University in Tehran. Statistical sample was 754 students who were randomly selected. A 65 item questionnaire was used to collect data. To analyze data, a descriptive and inferential statistics including independent t – test, one way ANOVA and Spearman were utilized. General results indicated that students entering the University were different in two identity dimensions and eight related factors. But at the last semester, they were closer and more similar in both ideological and interpersonal relationships identity dimensions. In addition, students’ ideological and interpersonal identity status and its associated factors were dropped in last semester compared to the first semester.

Vision is one of the most significant strategic issues in the organization that provides a mental framework by which the actions are implicitly evaluated. This article attempts to explain the role of cognitive structures in formation of the organizational vision. Exploratory interviews were conducted with mangers of different industries in Iran and the vision, mission and organizational values of several top companies around the world were studied. The interviewees were selected by purposeful sampling through snowballing technique. The interviews continued to theoretical saturation of the research data. Collecting the required data and analyzing them through grounded theory, finally 31 concepts and 6 categories were identified as effecting in and affected by cognitive frameworks in formation of the organization’s vision. This investigation determined that the vision has not a unique quiddity and it was defined at the same time as graded existence. Central variable in formation of the vision is cognitive frameworks. The leadership style was also identified as another most important variable.

Satisfaction of life in the result of positive insight into life and is usually created through finding shared perceptions and interests among people. The present article was performed with the aim of investigating satisfaction of life and the factors affecting it, among families of Kerman. In order to explain the relationship between leisure and life satisfaction, Zabrsky model and the functional model of the family by Olson's theory were used. According to Cochran formula, 386 people were selected as subjects. Descriptive findings indicated that the family-life satisfaction is below the average. The analytic results indicated that there is a significant relationship among the amount of leisure time spent with family, participation in family-centered leisure activities, participation in balancing family leisure activities, the amount of consistency and compatibility of family members and the extent of family members’ relationships on one hand and family satisfaction on the other. Also, the results of the multivariate regression showed that 61 percent of the dependent variable (satisfaction with family life) is explained by the independent variables.

One of the families’ concerns for having more children is the reduction of their educational attainment. This belief comes from the prevailing hypothesis that more children reduce their educational success. The purpose of this study is to challenge the prevailing hypothesis by applying the meta-analysis on the published experimental studies in various countries and come up with some alternative hypotheses about the relationship between family size and educational achievement. However, these researches were criticized by others such as Lloyd and Kelley. They showed that several similar studies in other countries and with different circumstances concluded that there is no significant relationship between family size and educational achievement. Moreover, the relationship can be affected through medium and macro factors and it would be quite different in various situations. Therefore, in special conditions if intermediate variables behave differently, education quality will not decease. Accordingly prevailed hypothesis loses its validity in many conditions and situations and replaced with other alternative hypotheses.

In Islamic revolution experience what could make extremely unity of the extremely various Iranian ethnic groups? During revolution, tendency for political linkage to the absolute Idea was so powerful that in an astonishing way lead to the unprecedented ethnic unity in Iran. Unforeseeable emergence of General Will toward political connection to the absolute idea is the basis of contemplation on Iran as presented in this article. Because of its Uniqueness, completeness, generality and, spontaneity Iranian Revolution is exceptional and it again, is considered an unconscious spillover of the unique content of Iranian history into the present time. Then history of Iran, contrary to prevalent research, could be understood by Iranian revolution not vice versa. Islamic revolution have made political and social grounds necessary for philosophical thought about Iran. Therefore Iranian revolution is the end of the becoming in the history of Iran.

Happiness and cheerfulness are among the most basic of human needs and can help individuals cope with life’s problems and also can play an important role in increasing one’s productivity. Given the important role that teachers play in the socialization process of the young, this study aims to investigate the level of happiness among Esfahani teachers and the factors that might affect that happiness. The research method utilized was survey and the tool of data collection was questionnaire. Oxford social happiness questionnaire was used to measure teachers’ level of happiness. Research population consisted of all the teachers of the city of Esfahan, of which 375 individuals were selected as the sample. The research tool had face validity and Alpha coefficients of reliability for all variables were above the 0.70 threshold. The results showed that teachers’ level of happiness was at the medium level and that there was a significant relationship between happiness and religiosity, attitude toward work, social participation, relations with co-workers and leisure time. Multiple regression analysis showed that all the independent variables together could explain about 38.4 percent of the variance of the dependent variable.