Abstracts

Family Relations and Their Effect on Family Stability

Dr. Mihrangiz Shoa Kazimi

One of the duties of the family is raising individuals and making them capable of carrying out their own family responsibilities.

In other words, once we realize the effect which family education has on the future of the family, we will understand how important it is for a person to acquire family education. For instance, it contributes to keeping the family safe and sound and this in turn leads to the attainment of an agreeable life.

Some experiences are acquired through the natural changes that usually occur in mans life such as those which take place in the age of puberty. One, however, learns a lot through ones interaction with the other members of ones family and this usually happens unconsciously.

Due to the fact that in industrial societies little or no opportunity remains for one to have access to family education, the family in these societies suffers from serious problems and the members of the family are often faced with undesirable experiences such divorce or family conflicts. This is why the attention to family education and to marriage education in particular is increasing these days.

The main aim of family education is to make people well informed about various family

affairs so that they may be able to solve family problems and guard their families against any challenge.

The Role of Mass Media in Strengthening or Weakening Social Values

Shams Allah Mariji

A society is a good ground in which God- gifted capacities thrive. It can contribute to the development of the kind of behavior which guarantees the societys security. The achievement of this goal requires safeguarding the values that govern a society. Hence, thinkers and scholars attribute the disrgard to social values and growth of deviant ideas to lack of knowledge, a belief which most religious sources affirm.

Realizing the importance of social values is one of the most efficient means of protecting these values and ideals against deviation. Mass media can play a majar role in this regard; it either causes social norms to become more firm or makes them wane, it can also contribute to unifying the level of peoples view about social ideals and thoughts.

Historical Sociology

Anna Green and Kathleen Troup

trans: Sayyid Husayn Sharaf al - Din

Historical sociolology is considered a branch of knowledge which is compound of two fields of study, namely history and sociology. As a matter of fact, historical sociology is mainly concerned with the history of ancient generations and the documents and reports handed down to us from the past. It is a new discipline which stems from sociology. Researchers have strong wish and readiness to explore this field of study, but because of the paucity of historical resources especially those concerning very ancient societies its development has been very slow. Reviewing the main features of the studies of historical sociology made in the West, the authors of this article introduce an account of its course of development.

The aim of the translator is to bring this topic to light in order to broaden the researchers scientific knowledge.