This investigation is about the cultural, social, and legal factors influencing on the amount of dowry. Hence, we used structuralism theory, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and reasonable selection, theory of mass society and media power and religiosity theory. Therefore, for this topic we examined cluster random sampling of the 384 married men and women of 18 to 35 years in Qom. The re...

The present study attempts to examine the factors contributing to modernism of the youth in Shoshtar city. In the research the degree of modernism and the relationship between education, job status, the use of mass media, social and economic status and the degree of faith were evaluated. The data were collected through a questionnaire. The population was all the youth in Shoshtar 400 people wer...

Amid signs of renewed scholarly interest in the effects of mass communication in presidential campaigns, the 1995 NES Pilot undertook three mini-studies to improve the measurement of exposure to the mass media. The first involves exposure to TV news, which is believed by some scholars to be the most important influence in presidential campaigns. The second involves exposure to paid advertising,...

In this paper, we present a historical overview of the science communication activities in Brazil since the nineteenth century and we analyze the current situation and its main concerns. The principal scopes and tools for science communication discussed here are the following: science centers and museums, mass media and large public events for communicating science and technology (S&T). In rece...

K nowledge of the image of minority nurses that is projected to the public via the mass media is crucial to the advancement of these groups. To determine the image of minorities in nursing as it was expressed in American newspapers in 1978, we asked the following questions: • Where and to what extent are minority nurse groups made visible to the public through the newspapers? • To what extent d...