نشریه مطالعات جامعه شناسی
سال دهم شماره 4 (پیاپی 37، زمستان 1396)

This research has been conducted with the aim of examining the role ofurban area on the daily life of the homeless people in Tehran. The researchmethod is mixed with a semi-structured interview framework designed onthe base of the theory of everyday life of Goff man and the urban ecologyapproach. The collected data from the qualitative section are presentedusing interview, observation and content analysis. In the quantitative partof the research, a questionnaire was designed based on this theory and theinformation was gathered by the researcher in an interview form. Themethod of data analysis is presented statistically in the form of descriptiveand inferential tables. The results show that, human-made environmentsprovide the context for distortion and disturbance more than naturalenvironments, and migration as an important factor in the transfer ofdifferent subcultures to metropolitan areas, has an important role.Immigration also shows a meaningful relationship with homelessness;therefore, social deprivation rates and social support can be predisposingfactors for homelessness that are associated with imbalance in the destinationcommunity for immigrants.

The main purpose of study is to determine the relationship between thetendency towards democracy and political socialization. Democracy hasbeen proposed on the base of ideas of Robert Dahl, Schumpeter, Huntington,Habermas, Cohen and Kymlicka as dependent variable and politicalsocialization with its dimensions of political participation, politicalawareness, political trust, ethnicities and political solidarity has beenproposed based on the theories of Parsons, Giddens, Huntington, Kymlicka,Held and Robert Dahl. The population of the study was 354 students whowere selected by cluster stratified sampling method and a questionnairewas used for collecting required data. The results show that, there is ameaningful relationship between political socialization and the tendencytowards democracy and the rate of the tendency towards democracy andpolitical socialization is moderate to high. There is a meaningfulrelationship between social factors such as political participation, politicalawareness, ethnicocenterism and political coherence with the tendencytowards democracy. Also, there is no relationship between political trustand the tendency towards democracy.

Corruption is one of the organizational phenomena that could dramaticallychallenge the development of countries. Therefore, identifying the methodsof confrontation with this phenomenon can be effective to develop thecountries as well as the organizations. Organizational justice is a variablethat could affect the corruption from psychological aspect. Accordingly,the aim of this paper is prioritizing the organizational justice dimensionsin terms of its impact on institutional and administrative corruption. Thestatistical society includes all of the university professors and managers ofgovernment agencies in East-Azerbaijan province which 200 of them hasselected as statistical sample using categorized sampling method. Also forcollecting the data, research questionnaire was distributed after proving thevalidity and reliability among the members of the statistical society. Inorder to analyze the data, the Cook and Seiford method were utilized. Theresults show that, among the dimensions of organizational justice, distributivejustice has the greatest influence on the reduction of administrativecorruption. Procedural justice and interrogation justice are ranked secondand third respectively.

One of the main issues that threaten the life of languages is economic,social and political processes that fits in globalization concept. Today,there are 5000 to 7000 languages all over the world, but the linguistspredict that 90% of these languages will extinct and be forgotten in the nextcentury. Besides some positive features of globalization, there are somenegative aspects such as increasing rates of poverty and inequality andreducing rate of cultural and linguistic diversity. Using the documentarymethod and collecting data, the aim of this study is to assess this point that,what is the globalization? What are its aspects? How does it lead to the lossof local languages and finally extinction of linguistic diversity? Theseviews can be analyzed in the light of global culture and imperialism. Thesetheories refer to this point that in the globalization of production and theeconomy, meanings, concepts, fashion and values will be sent to localcommunities along with goods. Therefore, the local people prefer theuniversal English language to their local language and teach it to theirchildren because they do want to reach the civilization level. This will leadto weakness and eventually the death of the local language. Now, the criticsof globalization and the linguists like Sachs believe that, assimilation isgoing to be replaced with understanding the diversity of culture andlanguage.

According to the importance of line and staff personnel in increasing theefficiency and effectiveness of an organization, there are somemisunderstandings in the relationships of these two groups of personnel.The final result of this misunderstanding is the decrease of efficiency in anorganization. Based on the significance of this issue, in this research therelationship between line and staff personnel in comprehensive Universityhas been investigated. For this purpose the current and desired status ofcommunications have been asked in a researcher-made questionnaire (with26 items) and have been distributed among 210 people in line and 60people in staff in educational vice chancellor domain of Elmi- KarbordiUniversity of Tehran. The results show that, there is a significant differencebetween the current and desired situation in all hypothesizes of the study.Also based on the results, status of communications is better in line ratherthan staff personnel.

Proposing the issue of security, cultural stability and political stabilityis the most important and prominent figure and the innermost layer of thenation’s and the government’s need. Political and cultural strength andstability of each nation is the most fundamental component of the authorityand talent of that nation in the context of development and excellence invarious economic, social and cultural spheres and also is the backwardnessin all areas of individual and social life of the community. In a macroapproach, the basis of the system is the component of the power of cultureand politics and also, the durability and consistency of each nation andsovereignty depends on the prosperity and cultural development and on theauthority and political prestige of them. Whenever the vulnerabilityreaches the two areas of culture and politics in society, other areas collapsein erosion and crisis and will provide a suitable platform for the developmentof all manifestations of affiliation, backwardness, social frauds and variousmaladministration in the country. In this research, the characteristics ofpolitical culture in Iran and the risks to Iran's political culture were studied.The present study is descriptive and analytical which was analyzedaccording to the characteristics of Iranian political culture. Given thenature and type of subject matter studied, data were collected in a varietyof ways and in general based on the library and internet methodology andthe analysis of the findings was mainly carried out using a qualitativeanalysis method.

Old Testament writes that the man forgot obligation and commitment tohis creator for a while and lost the paradise as divine place for vicinity andmercy of the Lord and took the departure journey. However, the almightyGod forgave him and placed him in an intact and pure land and did notconsent on his vagrancy. Now due to different reasons, some people leavetheir land and live homeless in the continents. Vagrancy due to globalclimate change is one of the exemplars of mass immigration enhancementwhich their resettlement has been converted to an international challenge.This research aimed at investigating the problems of climate changeimmigration and assessment of the international law regulations inresettlement of the climate change immigration. The research methodologywas documentary and secondary analysis patterns and at the end theefficiency of the implementation of these measures was investigated byfeasibility study relaying on the achievements. The findings show that, theworld countries and international association should pay attention to theresettlement of the climate change immigrants as an opportunity and notas a threat and employ mild legal solutions in comparison to other refugeesto prevent exponential increase of the environmental immigrants andrefugees and their legal and practical uncertainty.

Designing sociocultural platform is one of the new issues in designingurban public spaces. This approach is aimed at the general improvement ofurban public life by providing appropriate grounds and conditions forpeople’s presence in public spaces and the advent of social, cultural,recreational, educational, tourism activities in a framework of values,needs, cultures, and general policies of the target population. In the presentstudy which is conducted for the first time on designing urban public spaceswith the approach of contemporary sociocultural platform, it is tried topresent principles and criteria for designing those spaces and also to designa sociocultural platform for Arch of Alishah in Tabriz as a case study.Findings of the present study indicate that, due to the lack of planning,management, and designing the area of Arch of Alishah in Tabriz, thisplace has been completely left and neglected. This issue has resulted inunfavorable and catastrophic consequences for the city and its citizens.Finally, macro and micro strategic and operational.