Iranian International Journal Of Social Sciences
Volume:8 Issue: 2, Spring 2018

This paper discusses the application of the resource mobilization theory (RMT) to clarify the activities of certain key socio-political groups and movements in Egypt up till 2011. It contends that the political movements in the country have utilized information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social networks sites (SNSs) as a tool for mobilizing people and coordinating anti-regime activities. It also deals with certain political movements prior and throughout the Arab Spring in Egypt, which played significant roles in the recent political changes taking place in the country. This work confirmed that ICTs in general, and social network outlets in particular, have become a crucial resource for political groups, such as The Kefaya Movement, The 6 of April Youth Movement (6 AYM), the “We Are All Khaled Said” Facebook page, and even the Muslim Brotherhood to bringing about collective and coordinated actions. Thus, this article elucidates the importance of the resource mobilization theory in the context of socio-political movements in Egypt and their subsequent influence by looking at the utilization of SNSs throughout political uprisings in the country. As per the resource mobilization theory, the internet and social network outlets could be used as a resource for promoting and succeeding anti-government political groups and activists, which subsequently ended the Mubarak regime.

This paper aims to investigate interactions between the Kurds and development agents in the field of sustainable development. The theoretical approach of the research is based on modernization theories. Research methodology is qualitative, with an emphasis on grounded theory. Data was collected through depth interviews, participant observation, document and secondary analysis. In the field of political development, document findings indicate that despite significant increase in participation of Kurdish people in elections, local managers and administrators still have the minimum role in political management of Kurdistan province. With regard to cultural development, results show that promises made to Kurdish people about quantitative and qualitative development of cultural elements, such as education in mother tongue and true representation of ethnic identity in local media, have not become materialized in practice. Among consequences of this situation are ‘dissatisfaction with the national media’ and ‘formation of resistance identity’ in Kurdistan.

Extremism is a notion, which becomes meaningful in democratic and lawful societies. This is sometimes interchangeable with the terms, Fundamentalism and terrorism. It is often said that one who aims to fight against terrorism, must first challenge and overcome extremism. Thus, Analysis of the potentials of extremism in a society is highly articulated. Whereas Fundamentalism intends to bring about changes in socio-political system and always works within the regulations of the system, extremists pursue domination over the whole system and consider violence justifiable. At the end of this continuum is terrorism, which aims to sabotage the system through military and terroristic deeds. Extremism is mostly a political rather than sociological notion and refers to individuals who exploit equipment and strategies beyond the laws and regulations of a system to protest socio-political system. They are the minorities within the society who intend to introduce changes within the accepted principles of the majority of the society. This can be stated through different means namely: a plan, a Discourse and or an ideology. In fact, they diverge from the norms within the society. Nowadays, there are different types of religious extremism, which have their roots in social, political and psychological factors. The following paper intends to analyses extremism in its ideological walks. Furthermore, it will expand upon social factors that highly effect on forming this in the Middle East in particular. This article is about extremism, especially about Islamic extremism. This paper challenges conventional views of extremism, particularly those that emphasize difference causes. We offer an alternative analysis that helps explain the Islamic extremism as one of all extremism types biased of a new perspective argue that we should distinguish between the cause of the people's tendency towards extremist groups to be the cause of the radicalization of a religion. We try to illustrate in this paper, by analyzing the content of the Wahhabi texts and theories of Wahhabism and Salafist groups, why and how Islamic extremism and terrorist groups such as ISIS, al-Qaeda and the Taliban had come from within this religion.

Social capital of the most important concepts in the social sciences is growing and the scope of its application in other sciences is increasing. This concept represents a ring lost in development. Scientists believe that cure the problems of modern society. Social capital is closely associated with the quality of life. Research methodology in the research work and information requirements with respect to the objectives of the research hypothesis and is collected. In this paper we tried to use the pundits this area including Bourdieu, Coleman, Fukuyama and others social capital effects on aspects and dimensions of the quality of life for seniors in the city of Rasht, investigated and the validity of the research method using Cronbach's alpha 0.78. For reaching the mentioned results in this paper we employ chi square test of independent and for obtaining the dependency of variables we used Spearman Correlation so. Extraction and its results using the software SPSS a sample 400 in Rasht which is obtained the following results No significant relationship between quality of life and social capital, social trust, social participation, social networking, social environment with 95%. In the social environment variable is checked between the variables with the greatest correlation means that a lot of the quality of life impact of 0.551 seniors in the city of Rasht. Our main aim of doing this research is to find the most important variables effecting in quality of life for the elderly.

the present research seeks to answer the fundamental question of how the belief in the plot of conspiracy as a cultural barrier to the achievement of the Iranian society of political development has worked. In this research, using the documentary, historical and analytical method, the sociological analysis of the influence of the belief in the plot of conspiracy in the failure of the Iranian society to achieve political development has been attempted. The findings of this research show that the formation of political development in society requires the acceptance of social responsibility by different social classes, especially the ruling elites, but in the second pillar, the belief in the plot of conspiracy, the common belief almost all Social and political forces and political elites and the opposition, and its major consequences were the social and political responsibility of the perpetrators and activists of society and the attribution of all social and political events of society to foreigners. Finally, the main consequence of such an approach and Belief was the failure of the Iranian society to achieve political development.

In this study, the relationship between the viewing of television programs (programs toward God, the lessons of the Quran, the Fath) in the fields of Tehran citizens to moral values (Faith, virtue, purification and self-purification, prayer, reading culture, integrity, justice-oriented, good relations with others) have been investigated. The statistical population of this research over 15 years in four regions (2-13-17-22) of Tehran municipality is living That the total population are 1219432 people. Methods In this study is Survey, in the view of the purpose of the application, in terms of quantitative data, the correlation method and the method of data collection. Implement for collection of data is questionnaire in this study, It includes 30 items and is adjusted by the investigator. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were examined and approved by using Cronbach's alpha test expert opinion. Based on the results of the data analysis, there is relationship between the viewing television programs (programs toward God, the Lessons of the Quran, and the story of the conquest) with Tehran citizens tend moral values. According to the positive correlation can be said there is a positive correlation between two variables viewing television programs (programs toward God, the Lessons of the Quran, and the story of the conquest) and tend of Tehran citizens to moral values, and the relationship between the two variables is direct. In other words, if people watch more the plans of God, the Lessons of the Quran, the story of the conquest, they are also more inclined to moral values.

Cyberspace and its impact as the main competitor of real space in various aspects is considered and have been studied by many thinkers and theorists. For various reasons (political, social, cultural, etc.) it is lead to the presence of people, especially young people in virtual space, as all borders crossed the behavior and influence actions of people. According to the increasing importance and undeniable young social role of the public new ways, in this paper, the impact of cyberspace on social action using views and theories of sociology is studied. Does Virtual Space lead to social isolation? This article examines the impact of Virtual Space on social isolation from the other observations theoretically. As far as, modern world accelerate in chaotic direction with dramatically increasing of electronic relation instrument and diversity taken one more meaning and the content of communication has changed the upper limit in one side and on the other hand, virtual space lead to individual changes and variation of personality, especially in youth, therefore, evaluation of sociological theory and research results can confirm that presence in virtual space without any mean or purpose have been lead to social isolation in virtual seekers.