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The culture of poverty is an important anthropological concept that has permeated the various fields of social sciences, economics, development, sociology, as well as public discourse and the media. This concept was first coined by Oscar Lewis; It is a semantic, subjective and normative system - a value that leads to the creation and spread of a sense of poverty among individuals, and if internalized, this process is constantly reproduced. Reproducing a culture of poverty is one of the major obstacles to sustainable development. The present study identifies and analyzes the characteristics and components of the culture of poverty among women in Kermanshah with a qualitative approach and content analysis method. Participants included 16 women aged 15 to 59 years in Kermanshah who were included in the study by purposive sampling method and were interviewed face to face and semi-structured. Based on the findings and results, five main components of the culture of poverty were extracted: economic disorder, local belonging, family indifference, social indifference and despair.

The present article aims to study the relationship between apprehension of husband’s infidelity and body management among the married women in Tehran, Iran. Based on qualitative grounded theory, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 subjects, all married living in Tehran. The concepts inherent in the narratives and anecdotes were extracted from the interviews and then codified into concrete categories which were ultimately classified under certain pivotal codes. These pivotal codes were distilled into certain selected codes which showed a phenomenon we called “fear from inattention and unseen.” Our main question in this study was whether apprehension of husband’s infidelity had any influence on women’s body management.Our subjects’ status and agency in their families and societies were faced with cultural and social constraints. We concluded that the subjects of the study had already tried to attract others’ attention and make themselves distinct by managing their bodies and even accepting its possibly harmful consequences.

Social confidence is a form of social relationships that means social interaction and action of all people of the society in all political, economic and cultural social different fields. The aim of this study is the sociology survey of students’ social confidence in two teacher training centers (TTC) of Shaheed Sharafat and Bahonar in Tehran and its effective social factors. The study was conducted on two TTC students (573 students) and the samples were 230 students using systematic classification. A researcher made questionnaire was used for collecting the data that its validity and reliability was determined. Different ideas (social capital, social confidence, human relations, behavioral habits, justice, security and so on) have been used in conducting the study and the research main factors have been derived based on them. The results showed that social confidence level on students was on average level and higher and its relationship with some of social factors has been shown by using chi-square and bi-dimensional tables and bar diagram. Frequency tables and diagrams were also used to describe sociology information of the students. A significant relationship was not observed between sex and social confidence variables. The effect of feeling social security and religiosity have been more than the other factors and also feeling of social justice, their social and economic status and trust on social mass medias task has showed a meaningful relationship with the students social confidence level.