the present research seeks to investigate the effects of religiousness on the social capital of families residing in qom. it is an applied kind of research conducted through using documentary and survey methods. the statistical population has been 160565 households living in qom. based on cochran's formula, the sample size was determined to be 376 households which finally it was decided to...

background: social capital causes promoting community members’ participation level as set of norms among community systems. we aimed to determination between perceived social capital with relevant factors among health workers in medical and health network of rey city.   methods: this study was a cross sectional one which assessed determination between social capital and relevant factors among h...

In the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model we study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers. They are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers’ collective bargaining agreement which equalizes teacher pay. Our model features two stages of education: basic and advanced, the latter be...

This paper studies optimal pay-as-you-go social security with positive bequests and endogenous fertility. With an investment externality, a competitive solution without social security suffers from under-investment in capital and over-reproduction of population. We show that social security can improve welfare by reducing fertility and increasing capital intensity. We also illustrate numericall...

Social network sites can provide a person with the freedom to represent themselves in various ways, thus exhibiting multiple variations of their identity. Research states that an individual’s identity is self-monitored depending on the contextual situation that they are in. This ability is affected by their use of technology. We argue that social network sites are a particularly unique environm...

Cultural capital has been an important but often elusive concept in the study of educational processes and social class reproduction. The authors suggest that this is partly because a country’s educational system and ways of evaluating students at different educational transitions set the context for the mechanisms through which embodied and objectified cultural capital operate. Moreover, paren...

the objective of the present research is to study the effect of the social capital on the competitive behavior of the companies with the applied nature. the research method is descriptive-analytic and has a correlational type.the statistical population of the research includes sixty managers of the food industry companies in hamedan. the statistical sample of the research includes fifty two man...