جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « کارکرد اجتماعی » در نشریات گروه « جغرافیا »

Cultural and social development and valuable activities in a society will not be possible without security. In many areas, there may be police management, but it does not make people feel safe. The effect of the cultural and social functions of the police in the police management of coastal areas, the effective factors for tourists' well-being, and the determination of the effect of these factors on the sense of security are the problems of the present research, which aims to determine the impact of the cultural and social functions of the police in the police management and the security of tourists in the coastal areas of Mazandaran province.

Design/methodology/approach:

 In terms of its nature, the current research is among descriptive and non-experimental field and survey research, and its statistical sample consisted of 400 police commanders and managers of the province. Using fuzzy analysis and Excel software, the researcher investigated the cultural and social indicators of police that are effective in security, and then, using SPSS software, the research hypotheses were tested.

The findings of the hypothesis test show that the police operational capability index, the police professional behavior index, and the police social activities index are effective for tourists in the coastal areas of the province.

The results show that police management and security in coastal areas are not only through the operational capability of the police, but also the professional behavior and social activities of the police are effective in creating security.

Originality/value: 

This research has presented a model in line with the implementation of police management strategies and increasing the sense of security in the beaches and paying attention to the supervision and demands of the natives and tourists, in which the government interventions are minimal.

AbstractIn addition to enabling the relationship between city dwellers and nature, urban parks enhance social interactions, and even affect the social functions of adjacent public spaces. Factors affecting the social functions of urban parks can be divided into two categories; internal features such as the size, facilities and physical characteristics of the park; and external features, i.e. the park's relationship with the surrounding public spaces. This article examines the two Tonekabon urban parks, which are markedly different in terms of these characteristics, to explain how these distinctive features affect their social functioning.This is a descriptive study and data collection was done by survey and field observation. The statistical sample includes 400 park users, which are selected exclusively from the residents of this city, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, t-test, correlation and regression were used to analyze quantitative data. According to the findings, the higher the relationship between parks and activities in the surrounding public spaces, the higher their security and vitality. In the Javan Park, the effect of the interrelationships of the parks with the surrounding activities and public spaces on user satisfaction, and in the Madar Park, the effect of physical quality and facilities on user satisfaction is higher. Although the social functions of urban parks are influenced by various physical factors and characteristics, but parks are integral part of public spaces and activities in it, and even the effectiveness of these factors and characteristics is more influenced by the specific spatial-social context in which the functions of the park are performed.

the metro system is one of the fastest and cleanest transportation networks that most cities need it. This transportation system, not only provides speed and convenient access, but also uses a distinct route from the streets for movement. But the distinction of the route should not lead to neglect the effects of the construction of this transport system on the surrounding streets and neighborhoods. Therefore, this research has been carried out with the aim of investigating the effects of the construction of metro station on the social and traffic functions of the street. indicators of social and traffic functions has been extracted based on a new approach and combination of backgrounds and the initiative of the authors.The present study has a quantitative approach and data collection was done through a questionnaire-based survey after confirmation of validity and reliability. In this regard 500 questionnaires were distributed among Residents nearby the Shademan and Gholhak metro stations . To analyze the collected data, one-sample T test ,two-sample T test and Friedman test has also been used. The results showed the construction of the metro station has strengthened the traffic and social functions of the street, but the strengthening of the traffic function has been more than the strengthening of the social function of street. The results also show that the construction of Shademan metro station has had a greater impact on strengthening the social function of Azadi Street than strengthening the social function of Shariati Street with the construction of Gholhak metro station.

This study reports on field research in Qazvin. The topic of this study focuses on a bathhouse named “Safa” in Qazvin. Effective techniques such as observation and interview were utilized in this research. In this study, the owner of this bathhouse has provided the researcher not only with invaluable information about its architecture and changes brought about over time but also with a significant role that this beautiful building plays in daily lives of people, considering different ceremonies and family rituals. We have attempted to get familiar with this magnificent and impressive building not only in Qazvin but also throughout Iran. Then we need to identify the unknown social and cultural aspects of the building.

Geopolitics of sport is one of the geopolitical modern discourses that addresses and analysis the political consequences of sport matches. Today, sport competitions overshadow relations of states and social- political groups and are knotted with concepts such as national power, competition, convergence, conflict, nationalism, national unity and solidarity and the like, and affect states’ and nations’ attitudes and views towards each other. The tendency of public thoughts to obtain news and information concerning to sport events in the other hand and immense reflection of sport events in mass media of communication from the other hand have caused sport and politics to get increasingly closer to each other. Accepting the idea that the world of sport is quite different from politics and its independence from political games seems a simplistic matter. While some people try to emphasize on this idea that sport and politics must be separate from each other, because sport is one of human spiritual longings and politicians and policymakers activities are out of their spiritual longings. In reality, although one of the International Olympic Committee goals, under giving the concession of Olympic Games, is opposing with misusing of sportsmen and sport, but throughout the history of modern Olympic it cannot be find games which are not affected by politics in different means. Even, the primary Olympic champions were rooted in policies of its own time, which were aimed to draw each other, specially the city- states of the ancient Greece, to competition. Modern Olympics are scenes to state some issues like wars, boycotts, strikes and terrorist attacks that all of these matters are in the domain of politics. In addition, sport because of its content and cultural importance, is strongly knotted with the international political-economic systems. All of host countries (politicians) use Olympics to progress their countries and to generate national pride and national unity by holding national and identical festivals. It has been said many ethical, philosophical and literary comments about functions of sport. However, each comment underlines one of its aspects and fails to consider other political- social functions of sport. For example, for an enthusiastic evolutionary like Cheguevara, “Football is no just a simple game; it is a weapon of the revolution”. Others, like Merlie Kessler chides football and some of them say, “Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers”. MethodologyThis article tries to analyze the geopolitical functions of sport competitions using analytical, descriptive and survey methods. At first, social and political functions of sport (28 functions) were determined by referring to library sources, and then a questionnaire was designed in order to compare the importance and affection of the political- social functions of sport competitions. After that, opinions of 30 experts of political sciences, international relations, political geography, sport sciences, and social sciences were collected and studied. Finally, the views were assessed and analyzed using the T-Student and the Friedman tests. These tests raise the question of “Do all factors have the same affection from point of view of experts or not?”. Cranach’s alpha coefficient was used to determine the reliability and validity of the questions. The number obtained is = α99%. With regards to this fact that the standard level in this test is 75%, the obtained alpha (99%) shows that the questionnaire has collected the needed information more than the standard.Results and discussionThe results of the research indicate that the most important political-social functions of the discourse of sport are: strengthening nationalism, strengthening the sense of territoriality, developing globalization, strengthening other national identities, athletic competitions as forums to geopolitical gestures, geopolitical seclusion, raising the geopolitical dignity, promoting the terrorist activities, strengthening convergence and weakening divergence, sport as a socializing factor, sport as a unifying factor, sport as a forum to transform the society, sport as a factor that promotes social security and morality, sport as an alternative to war, sport as a propagandistic tool of politicians, neo-liberalism and reification of sportsmen, sport as a factor that creates joy and pride, pattern making from sporting, sexual and ethnic reconstruction, promoting human rights, promoting violence, draining people’s emotional energies, convincing people to accept current status, football as an alternative for religion, deviating people’s attention from their real social position, football as a deconstructing factor in the age of meta-narratives and developing sport tourism in the frame of geopolitical tourism.