Preface Never before have we witnessed a " silent revolution " of such significance for all sectors of society as the global phenomenon of population aging, which has a direct bearing on the meaning of generations, cohorts and intergenerational solidarity. Two key elements of this transformation stand out. First, there is a new architecture of society that entails social change, which challenge...

INTRODUCTION Indigenous elders have traditionally played an important role in maintaining social cohesion within their communities. Today, part of this role has been taken over by government social and healthcare services, but they are having limited success in addressing social challenges. Increasing elders' social participation and intergenerational solidarity might foster community developme...

this article tries to study the relationship between “quality of work life” and “job satisfaction” among the employees of the area 3 local branches of bank melat in tehran. as far as the purpose is concerned, this study is an applicable research while from the research methodology point of view, it is descriptive survey. statistical population of the research covers of all the 670 employees of ...

This research is on social –capital and the sense of social security among the women in northern and southern Tehran. It tries to explain the social capital and the sense of social security in the given society. This research is done on a survey method with interview and questionnaire. The reliability and the validity of the research method was applied through Alpha Coronbach coefficient.  Th...

This chapter examines the way online language users enhance social interaction and group collaboration through the computer mediated communication (CMC) channel. For this, discourse analysis based on the linguistic politeness theoretical framework is applied to the transcripts of a real time online chat. Analysis of the data shows that online participants employ a variety of creative devices to...

in this article, the social capital concept has been thoroughly surveyed. consequently, this concept and its related dimensions and factors has been extracted from imam ali's point of view (nahjolbalaghah letters). by implementing the extracting adaptive concepts and exerting suitable qualitative research methods, an islamic framework for social capital improvement in islamic communities h...