Political participation is one of the important issues drawn to the special attention of various fields of social sciences and politics. Today, women as an effective group in participation and political participation especially have an important role in political decision-making. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine social factors affecting women's political participation i...

Article history: Received 5 September 2012 Received in revised form 13 July 2013 Accepted 15 July 2013 Available online 24 July 2013 This paper provides micro-level evidence on the relationship between labor market conditions and social insurance participation among Chinese industrial firms. I find that the increased scarcity of labor over this period was a quantitatively important driver of pa...

Objectives: Social participation is linked to healthy aging and the maintenance of functional independence in older individuals. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between social participation and orderly’s mental health. Methods: Totally 380 people, aged over 60 residing in city of Hamadan were participated in the study. The participants completed a researcher-tailored i...

The article addresses the mutual relationship between environmental improvements and improvement in social status of women. The main question of this article is: Are there any relationships between improvement in environment protection and promotion in the situation of women? The theoretical framework includes Hatfield’s view about the existence of communities between the public and private sph...

Participation is one of important topics highly focused on in various social, political and cultural areas. Today the youth as an effective group in participation has taken a crucial role in political, social and cultural decisions of the society. This research aims to present a sociological analysis of the youth participation, causes, procedure, and the challenges concerned. To achieve this pu...

Political participation is one of the important pillars of any country's development. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social values ​​and political participation of Behbahan youth. For this purpose, the theories of Schwartz, Inglehart and Milbrath were used as a theoretical framework. The research method is survey. The sampling method is multi-stage cluster ...

companies' continuity, because all companies have some relations with the society;therefore, the society provides long-term survival of the company.in this way, companies in addition to economic responsibility, must take responsibilityof social issues. therefore, with respect to corporate social responsibility andits revelations, the current paper examines the relationship between social r...

the article aims to consider factors affecting on the social participation of citizens 18 to 64 years old in the civic affairs in mashhad. the method was survey and the population included all the all inhabitants of mashhad. sample size was 348 respondents who were selected by proportionate systematic sampling strategy for interviewing. the results showed that participation mean is 3.19 out of ...