فصلنامه پژوهشگران فرهنگ
پیاپی 36 (پاییز و زمستان 1395)

One of the most fundamental infrastructures of culture in our society is folklore subculture which is a reflection of the real culture of the society. This subculture includes customs and traditions as well as the oral literature inherited from the antecedents and is a symbol of cultural richness. In folklore culture, customs and traditions, folk literature and myth are the main foundations having mutual influence on each other in such a way that investigating one is not possible without taking the others into consideration. In fact, the works, thoughts and lives of our ancestors when investigated as present in people’s minds are named folk literature and when regarded as their outside representation are called customs and traditions. In other words, customs and traditions and folk literature are the oral remainders of the life and thoughts of our ancient ancestors transferred orally. These are indicative of our people’s history in ancient times which prove ourlong history and national characteristics. Myth is also a component of folklore culture which has played a crucial role as compared with customs and traditions and folk literature and has deeply influenced them. One of these traditions is the sixth night after birth, called Šab-e Šeš, which is held in various parts of the country with nuance differences but acommon base. Since you may know by a handful the whole sack, this study attempted to describe this ancient tradition in Dasht-e Khak village in Zarand, Kerman with regard to its mythical components.

Agriculture was an important industry in Iran until 1970 and used certain technologies based on native knowledge. It played a fundamental role in economic and cultural development of Bardsir, a city in Kerman, and was significantly important in determining the future path of development. This article attempted to provide an answer to this question: What kind of technologies were used in traditional agriculture in Bardsir in past decades and what customs, traditions and beliefs were ubiquitous among native people? Thetechnologies used by natives were those of water supply, qanat digging, seeding, pest control, crop harvesting and crop storage throughout the year. The native agricultural knowledge in Bardsir has helped provide with the required agricultural tools using the limited facilities till the middle of the recent century. It also used native methods to accomplish crop planting, maintenance and harvesting under the influence of certain customs, traditions and beliefs. This study was a descriptive one which utilized field research and library research to collect data. Field research was conducted in Bardsir and the surrounding area including Mahmudabad, Mahunak, Gezuiyeh and Darounouiyeh.

The present study aimed to investigate “u” suffix in Kermani dialectwhichis connected to various grammatical basesdespite similarity in function and is not totally similar concerningsemantic aspects. By being added to various lexical items, this affixcreates a various set of different concepts. The meanings including: diminution, intimacy, debasement, frequency, possession, similitude and etc. By considering these semantic complex fields in the mind, morphologyattempts to evaluate the relationship between form and meaning and recognizepart of this empirical knowledge in mind and recognition. Thus, the author of this study applied cognitive morphology mechanisms raised by Hamawand (2011) and investigatedtheirachievements as categorization, conceptualization and configuration to studythe semantic functions of this suffix and finally evaluated relevant cognitive indices in their formation.

This article is an effort in onomastics; a field of linguistics dealing with the various aspects of name and naming including linguistic, social and psychological aspects. One of the subjects so far overlooked in this field is the investigation of linguistic concinnity in naming twins which can be of interest for linguists as well as sociologists. Supposing that similarities in appearance and behavior cause the parents to name their twins by using similar words, the author has tried to study and classify the linguistic concinnity in the names of Kermani twins born in the year 1392 A.H.S. in three linguistic fields (phonology, morphology and semantics) and compare the results of these three levels of analysis. The results of this study show that concinnity in the first and last phonemes, concinnity in word structure and semantic concinnities related to religion, myths and culture are the most important similarities in twins’ names. In the other part of the article, some linguistic trends in naming children are analyzed from a statistical point of view.The results of this study can help sociolinguists with their analyses and can reveal the importance of rhetorical concinnity in naming.

This research investigated the effectiveness of teaching life skills on changing the attitude of male high school students in Kerman toward drug abuse and addiction. A sample of 40 students of a high school was selected randomly. With the implementation of attitude questionnaire on addiction, 20 participants with higher scores (with a more positive attitude toward using drugs) were placed in experimental group and from among the rest of the students, 20 were selected randomly and placed in control group. Thereafter, life skills were taught to the experimental group for 8 sessions within a month but no variable was performed on control group. At the end, both groups were tested via form B which was the attitude scale on addiction. Data were analyzed by means of statistical methods including covariance analysis and t test. The results of statistical analysis revealed that teaching life skills was effective in changing the attitude of students toward drug abuse.

This study aimed at investigating the relationship between staff work ethics and customer satisfaction in central office ofMahan Air in Kerman. For this purpose, 158 staff of this company were selected via Cochran formula and simple random sampling method. In order to measure the variables of this research, work ethics questionnaire (Petty, 1990) and customer satisfaction questionnaire by Rampersad (translated by Mandegani, 2010) were utilized. The validity and reliability of the research tools were reinvestigated. Data analysis and hypothesis testing were also carried out using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The research results revealed that there was a positive and significant relationship between staff work ethics and all its components with customer satisfaction. The results of regression testing indicated that from among the components of staff work ethics, interest in work, collective spirit and participation in work were the best predictors of customer satisfaction. Moreover, the results of the conducted tests demonstrated that there was no significant difference among the viewpoints of the participants of the study regarding their demographic information like education, work experience and age.

events are always associated with human life and occur with different appearances in any moment. Such different events have different effects on one’s mind and body and are in direct relationship with one’s personality traits, resilience and mental health. the research method wascausative -comparative. The research populationincluded volunteer and non-volunteer students who weremembersofthe Red Crescent Society of Kerman. The sample included 98 subjects divided into two equal groups of volunteer and non-volunteer members selectedthrough cluster sampling method. The test of research hypotheses wasdoneby Neo personality inventory (NEO-PI) (1990), Goldberg general health questionnaire (GHQ) (1979) and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) (2003). Data were described and analyzed by inferential descriptive statistics (Freedman test).
Findings: the results showed that there wasa statistically significant difference between the volunteer and non-volunteer students who weremembers of the Red Crescent Society according to their personality traits, resilience and mental health. That is, volunteer members gainedhigherscores in comparison withnon -volunteer members in personality traits (Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and openness to experience), resilience and general health. The most significant difference between the two groups was observed in resilience and the least significant difference was in general health. volunteers are considered as powerful resources and potentials for governments and humanitarian organizations. Therefore, correct, principled and fundamental planning in applying such potential power can be effective in different societies in order to achieve sustainable development.

The present study aimed at unraveling the relationship between training, resistance economy and lifestyle in Islam. To reach thispurpose,this article investigated the Islamic viewpointoneconomy based on Quran and a variety of hadith and narrations from the prophet of Islam (PBUH) and his household, as well asIslamic scholars. The study followed a qualitative method. It collected the required information about its three main concepts from reliableresources,then the key terms of the study were defined based on the gathered data and analyzed to investigate the relationship. The findings of the study revealed that resistance economy, to a large extent, is the Islamic approach to economy, but has been overlooked in ourcountry. Consequently,Islamic lifestyle (regarding cultural and economiclife) had encountered a lot of problems.Based on the results of this study, it is recommended that economic planners become familiar with the theoretical principles and methods of Islamic economyand design powerful economic organizations and structures based on them. Furthermore,all members of the society should be trained based on Islamic approaches to economy.As a result,proper Islamic behavior is disseminated in the society and can be expanded tocover the economic lifestyle in Islamic culture and civilization.

This article is essentially involved with investigating the role of human resource developmentin movement of labor force. This study attempted toemphasize the point that educational investment for human resource is the only type of investment which is not only never destroyed and wasted, but also exponentially increased and can’t be measured. In order for human resource development, certain foundations are required the most important of which is education. Generally, in this article, different dimensions of human resource, components and dimensions of human resource development as well as the challenges encountered by the organization in using human resource developmentwere investigated. Thereafter, the necessity of recruiting expert human resource as per the requirements of the organization, development of educational facilities, improvement of human resource and their education and basic requirements to attract and maintain human resource were discussed. At the end, the significant and key role of human resource development in movement of human resource and various types of movement were elaborated. The main message of this article is that human resource development is successful when human resource is viewed scientifically; it emphasizes the necessity for managers toemploy human resource for proper jobs and take their job satisfaction and requirements into account.

The aim of this research was to study the relationship between managers’ religious viewpoint and organizational commi-tmentamongthe personnel of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in the educational year 2013-2014. The survey method was used in this research and the statistical populationof the research consisted of 100managers of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. Because of few numbers of managers, this research used census method. Standardized questionnaires of religious viewpoint (Serajzade, 1998) and organizational commitment (Allen and Meyer, 1984) wereused to collect data. The research data wereanalyzed by descriptive statistics, PearsonCorrelation Coefficient and regression test. The results showed that the average of organizational commitment, in total, in one scale within 25-125 range, was84.5, which washigher than the expected average (75) and the average of religious viewpoint in one scale within 18-90 range, was69, which was alsohigher than the expected average (54). The results of PearsonCorrelation test showed that concerningreligiosity aspects, there is a meaningful relationship only between religiosity and emotionalaspects, in total, and organizational commitmentvariable, in total, but there was nosignificant relationship between other aspects of religious viewpoint and the dependent variable in total.