Iranian International Journal Of Social Sciences
Volume:6 Issue: 2, Spring 2016

The present paper aims to determine the relationship between ICT usage and generation gap in Tehran urban family. This research is based on a survey in which a systematic random sampling of 384 families has been chosen to be questioned from different districts of Tehran. The results of the test showed a meaningful relationship between the usage of ICT and generation gap in urban households of Tehran. This means that the type and amount of Internet and satellites utility differ by parents and children and this difference has led to a gap between two generations. This gap gradually reduces the common points and the mutual understanding of current generation (children) and the previous generation (parents) and ultimately social interaction within suchfamilies is faced with major problems.

HIV/AIDS is considered by many one as the most dangerous disease emerged in the human history. Unlike many diseases, this one is not just a medical situation; but a social problem. Its ways of transmission, generally related to risky behaviors and sexual activities, have pulled the attention of different sectors of society to this disease. It seems that a stigma is formed around HIV/AIDS and people who live with this disease are stigmatized. In this study, by using a qualitative approach, it has attempted that the primary causes of the stigma be discovered. A secondary data analysis was conducted to provide the necessary data for grounded theory. This method provided a theoretical model, in which, the causes, the context, confounders and mediators, consequences and strategies of action and interaction about the phenomenon of HIV/AIDS related stigma are discovered and shown.

Growing number of scholars in sociology has come to terms that sociology, like everything else, is a product of particular historical conditions. As there is sociology of everything. You can turn on your sociological eye no matter where you are or what you are doing, taking for example, the latent reasoning usually adopted by sociologist in viewing issues as against some others who ignorantly engage in manifest deductions. Being a sociologist means never having to be bored, considering the whole gamut of issues it concerns itself with on daily basis. Sociologists engage extensively in questions linked to the causes and consequences of development, and their findings often entail surprising policy implications and mitigations. The consensus among leading development studies scholars accepts the era of modern development as commonly deemed to have commenced with the inauguration speech of Harry S. Truman in 1949. In Point Four of his speech, with reference to Latin America and other poor nations, he said that “for the first time in history, humanity possess (ed) the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of these people”(Rist). Development studies has since taken greater interest in lessons of past development experiences of Western nations, human security, people-oriented approach to understanding and addressing global security threat, implications of inequality to insecurity and effect of insecurity in one region on global security. This paper is of the view that the vision and mission of development sociology arising from the historical and philosophical standpoint is imminent for a proper grasp of the discipline’s orientations by legend and budding scholars in development studies.

The present paper aims to determine the relationship between ICT usage and generation gap in Tehran urban family. This research is based on a survey in which a systematic random sampling of 384 families has been chosen to be questioned from different districts of Tehran. The results of the test showed a meaningful relationship between the usage of ICT and generation gap in urban households of Tehran. This means that the type and amount of Internet and satellites utility differ by parents and children and this difference has led to a gap between two generations. This gap gradually reduces the common points and the mutual understanding of current generation (children) and the previous generation (parents) and ultimately social interaction within such families is faced with major problems.

Since virtual education has been considered as an alternative for conventional education and it is in progress in M. A. levels in Payam-e Noor University (PNU) the feasibility assessment of B.A. levels has been studied for the present study. In this study, the facilities and equipment needed for virtual education and the shortcomings of it in PNU is studied. The research is of practical ones and imperative survey is used as the research method. Statistical society contains of 928 university teachers and all the 8954 students studying at B.A. levels in 2014. For the study of facilities and equipment, systematic observation method was used. Due to some restrictions of motivation etc., and for the increase of validity and reliability a questionnaire was also used to collect the data. According to the observations, the basic equipment and facilities as: computers, internet, skilled personnel needed, economical budgets, and digital textbooks have already been provided in Mashad Payam-e Noor University. On the other hand, possibility of offering virtual education from the view points of teachers was 3.09 out of 5 and from the student's point of view was 2.87. Therefore, it is possible to offer virtual education to B.A. students in PNU. Hence lack of a unique educational standard, very skillful personnel, small educational space, educational classes for teachers, are of the shortcomings of offering virtual education to PNU students.

Today, commercial advertisements are emerged all around the world. They include radio, TV, magazines and newspapers. As it is obvious, advertisement is considered as a live process, an economic activity, industry or profession, and also it is a part of media’s content. Advertisement is a social organization which has no effect on the people, structures, culture and whole community. In this paper we have tried to investigate the reasons of the effects of advertisement on the amount and kind of production consuming by Iran’s girls and women from the view point of sociology. Commercial advertisement’s concept internationally, is to give information and massages to people, which has been produced in the 18s and 19s and specially 20s. In this study, we have used survey method, in which we have applied a questionnaire along with interview. The case studies are Tehran University students from the Northern Tehran unit. Case study was a group of girl students of the BA level of social science major; the number of students was 4000, which were selected randomly. In this study, the main aim is to realize that, whether advertisement would have effect on the women’s consumption; if so, to what extent it is. The aim of this study is to sociological investigation of effects of advertisement on thewomen consumption.

This study investigated the association between Iranian university students' perception of their fathers and their object-relation and defense mechanism. Participants were 438 students between 18-22 years from Allameh Tabatabae University, who agreed to fill the Fatherhood Scale out (Dick, 2004), Bell object relation inventory and defense mechanism style, and defense style questionnaire (DSQ-40). Using stepwise regression indicated that positive Parental Engagement significantly would be able to predict alienation (ALN) and mature and immature defense mechanisms. Positive paternal engagement & negative paternal mangagement significantly predict alienation (ALN) and mature defense mechanism. Furthermore, negative paternal engagement can predict insecure attachment (IA) and egocentrism (ECG). The good provider role subscale of fathering scale can predict social incompetence (SI) of object relation factors and neurotic defense mechanism. This subscale with negative paternal engagement can predict Social incompetence (SI). As a result, current study emphasize on the critical role of fathering in forming object relation and defense mechanism during development. In this processing, fathering as a facilitator lead to appropriate representation of reality in child mental structure. So, he can practice proper object relations and mature defense mechanism.