S. H. Nabavi
Volume 16, Issue 1 , March 2016, , Pages 5-40
Abstract
The concept in sociology and social theories plays an important role. Many concepts have been coined and explained. The questions are, what are the concepts, how are they formed, and what functions do they have for science? In addition, how did the thinkers explain their own concepts? Kant speaks ...
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The concept in sociology and social theories plays an important role. Many concepts have been coined and explained. The questions are, what are the concepts, how are they formed, and what functions do they have for science? In addition, how did the thinkers explain their own concepts? Kant speaks of categories as priori concepts, Hegel emphasize self-evolutionary of concept, Marx, unlike Hegel, considers concept and the dialectic of concepts as a reflection of the real world. Nietzsche focuses on the metaphorical nature of concepts and sees them as the cemetery of perceptions. Durkheim, on the contrary, emphasizes a posteriori and social nature of concepts, and Blumer focuses on a key role of concepts in science and its functions. Although these thinkers are the philosophers or sociologists, but their approaches to the analysis of the concepts are in the first instance, logical, then, psychological and literary, social or cultural.
A.M Hazeri; E SHarifi
Volume 10, Issue 4 , December 2010, , Pages 1-25
M.J. Zahedi; N. Nourani
Volume 18, Issue 1 , January 0, , Pages 3-31
Abstract
The present article aimed at analyzing and evaluating the relationship between religiosity national identities of the students of Yasouj University. To do this, we combined Giddens’ identity theory, Cooley’s looking- glass self-theory and Stryker’s identity theory to ...
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The present article aimed at analyzing and evaluating the relationship between religiosity national identities of the students of Yasouj University. To do this, we combined Giddens’ identity theory, Cooley’s looking- glass self-theory and Stryker’s identity theory to create the theoretical framework. Besides, 400 students were selected from Yasouj University students as our sample using the multi-stage random sampling method. To gather the data, we applied a self-constructed questionnaire consisting 48 questions. The questionnaire’s validity was assessed by some experts and its reliability was measured by Cronbach’s alpha. The degree of reliability of national identity and religiosity were 0/888 and 0/939 respectively . The findings demonstrated that there was a significant direct relationship between students’ national identity and their religiosity; but there was not any significant difference between the level of respondents’ religiosity and their age, education, and place residence. It is important to note that the independent variables could explain 27 percent of thevariance the dependent variable. In addition, there was no conflict between their religiosity and national identity.
H. Ebadollahi Chanzanag; Z. Khasto
Volume 13, Issue 4 , December 2013, , Pages 24-59
Abstract
Social sciences relative weakness in Iran has been investigated
mostly via macro approaches, specially by structural functionalism
approach, and few by micro approaches. The present paper is identifying
thinking circles of social sciences faculty members of Allameh Tabataba’i
University and ...
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Social sciences relative weakness in Iran has been investigated
mostly via macro approaches, specially by structural functionalism
approach, and few by micro approaches. The present paper is identifying
thinking circles of social sciences faculty members of Allameh Tabataba’i
University and University of Tehran based on Collins’ theory. According to
Collins (2000, 2004) science development results from emergence and
continuance of thinking circles as scientific communities. The central part
of thinking circles is the 'interaction ritual chains'. Scientific actors inside
the thinking circles are involved in theoretical discussions with 'emotional
energy' which results in scientific development and dynamism within
thinking circles. This research used qualitative method and unstructured
interview with social sciences faculty members. Results showed that in
spite of presence of common issues among professors, they lack 'common
symbolic attention space', 'common issue concentration', and 'interaction
ritual'; these are distinguishing features of scientific community from the
viewpoint of Collins. 'Conversation space' is limited to temporary
interaction with university students instead of dynamic and productive
interaction with collogues. Professors have high emotional and cultural
capitals while lacking thinking circles within faculties.
Akbar Aliverdinia; Azam Malekdar; Mohammadreza Hasani
Volume 15, Issue 2 , July 2013, , Pages 24-56
Abstract
With the increase of computer-related deviant behaviors and formation of new crime, individuals and society have come across many threats. The current study tries to explain computer related offences among students of Mazandaran University, with the use of Akers' Social Learning Theory. Having done ...
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With the increase of computer-related deviant behaviors and formation of new crime, individuals and society have come across many threats. The current study tries to explain computer related offences among students of Mazandaran University, with the use of Akers' Social Learning Theory. Having done a survey, we distributed a questionnaire between 403 students whom had been selected by the use of proportional stratified sampling. The population was the whole students of the University in 2012-2013. Computer Offences variable consists of three dimensions: ‘against data & system’, ‘identity theft’ and ‘cultural’. Independent variables consists of differential association, differential reinforcement, definitions and imitation and their effects on computer offences are examined. Data is analyzed by “lisrel” and “Spss” software. The findings of SEM demonstrate that the relationships between differential association and differential reinforcement and computer-related offences are significant. The differential association, however, has the strongest effect on it (Beta= 0/41).
M.J Nasrilazadeh; H Saraei
Volume 9, Issue 3.4 , September 2008, , Pages 24-57
Abstract
In this study, the mani question is: How is the differetiation of the nilitary organizations from the institution pelitrcally formed? According to the present texts and their theretical frameworks, the differetiation could be defined by two basic categories of: Fromalization and professlonalization.
The ...
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In this study, the mani question is: How is the differetiation of the nilitary organizations from the institution pelitrcally formed? According to the present texts and their theretical frameworks, the differetiation could be defined by two basic categories of: Fromalization and professlonalization.
The indices of formalization were: division of labour, and the punishment / reward system for organizational promotion.
The indices for professionalization are: sepcialized education and a triple -function for professionalization.
The study is a historical comparative work, so it could be categorized as a qualitative research. The main findings are that through the history, both categories of differentiation were developed and complicated. But in Iran, in different from the other countries, specially United States with its decentralization system, the professionalism has less developed and under the domination of the central political system, it could not acheived a developed professional autonamy.
A. Kazemi; M. Parvizan
Volume 13, Issue 3 , September 2012, , Pages 25-56
Abstract
Studying decoding and conducting research on it, have always
been an important concern in the area of Cultural Studies. This study set out to
show how the role of religion could be explained along with variables like
social class, job, income, etc. At first, the 9 pm TV news program of IRIB
Channel ...
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Studying decoding and conducting research on it, have always
been an important concern in the area of Cultural Studies. This study set out to
show how the role of religion could be explained along with variables like
social class, job, income, etc. At first, the 9 pm TV news program of IRIB
Channel came under our studying for a week. Then, using the reading-based
structural semiological methodology, we analyzed this preferred reading news
program and its dominant semiotics and signs. Then, we studied the reading of
the audience from this TV news program (teachers, clergymen, and students)
using focus group discussion qualitative approach. Findings of this study
showed that the preferred reading of the source of this program tries to
attribute the origin of all the internal oppositions and the discourse of the
"other" to his "plots". And also Through polarization and equalization of the
other (Israel, US and the western countries) with the mythical signifiers like
Satan, and devil and through equalizing the "self" with signifiers like the
followers of truth and God, etc., tries to make all its ideological notions and
concepts prominent and marginalize the concepts and value of the other. In the
reading analysis, it was found that different audience had different degree of
understanding of TV news programs based on their degree of access to other
discourses: newspapers, the internet and satellite, as well as their degree of
religious belief.
Keramatollah Rasekh
Abstract
The purpose of the research is to explain the process of forming a “reflective traditional personality” concerning the three anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism and anti-arrogance discourses. This research was done through applying the analytical method. The social representative of the “reflective ...
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The purpose of the research is to explain the process of forming a “reflective traditional personality” concerning the three anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism and anti-arrogance discourses. This research was done through applying the analytical method. The social representative of the “reflective traditional personality” is a new middle class. The new middle class is a social group that has been gradually formed in Iranian society since the early nineteenth century, to introduce new social changes inspired by Western societies. The results showed that, contrary to expectations, this group has not become a social carrier of such changes. They adopted different social and political patterns of behavior and a special sociocultural personality, referred to here as a “reflexive traditional personality”. Anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and anti-arrogance processes are related to three processes of discourse making, the ideologization of political thought in Iran and the establishment of the capitalist. These discourses have significantly influenced the emergence of this personality. The results also showed that the social structures in Middle Eastern societies including Iran have changed differently and led to “reflexive traditional societies”.
Omid Jahangiri; Yones Norbakhsh
Abstract
By an anthological critic, this study attempts to emancipate the other from the dominance of the subject (dominant religious discourse); however, the goal is not to reverse such a relation. But the main objective of this study is to show the fundamental relation between the subject and the other. The ...
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By an anthological critic, this study attempts to emancipate the other from the dominance of the subject (dominant religious discourse); however, the goal is not to reverse such a relation. But the main objective of this study is to show the fundamental relation between the subject and the other. The concepts which have been born out of theoretical articulation (Burger, Bakhtin, Ranciere) are based on the relation between the subject and the other. By this standpoint, the other is not an object among the plurality of cognition objects to be grasped by the subject. The other, in fact, possesses its subjectivity (cognitive subject), which is lost in every moment due to the mediation of special social, historical, political, and cultural conditions. The question is: What is the relationship between religious pluralism and the intertextuality? In other words, what is the relationship between religious tolerance and I in a social context? By examining research literature, we attempted to identify the relation of the other with the subject regarding the dialectic of tolerance and negation. Following that, we extracted a theoretical-conceptual model to provide the possibility of revealing the complexities of descriptions and analysis. Based on Berger's theory of religion, the subjects obtain a partial autonomy (against the heteronomy of classic standpoint). Therefore, with the help of a marketing religion, the subjects can look for their favorite goods. Through the mediate of this autonomy of subjects (Kantian cognitive subject), the encounter of subjects with the other is not of a one-sided and authoritarian one. Also, this encounter which is replete with dialogue and dialogism (Bakhtinian Dialogue), places the subject among different meanings and signs. These meanings invite the subject to construct logical articulations from the phenomena which rise up against the subject in the market of religion. The hierarchies that reconstruct the other as an object which lacks consciousness get deconstructed, and the other, as a subject, gets liable to cognition of plural objects (Rancerian Politics) which will, in turn, be supplied in this market.
H. Mohaddesi
Volume 10, Issue 3 , September 2009, , Pages 27-56
Abstract
The writing of this paper was undertaken to familiarize, in an abridged form, students as well as the enthused others, with the area of sociology of religion. Based on his experiences the author has come to the conclusion that the Iranian audience, either the students or members of the general public, ...
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The writing of this paper was undertaken to familiarize, in an abridged form, students as well as the enthused others, with the area of sociology of religion. Based on his experiences the author has come to the conclusion that the Iranian audience, either the students or members of the general public, have in mind particular questions about sociology of religion. Such particular curiosity is due to their specific religious and cultural setting in which they live. Yet, all these questions are not on the same par, in that some questions are more significant, more fundamental, and as such they invoke more controversy or dispute. The author, having an eye on simplification process, has made a humble attempt to answer some of the most important questions which are frequently asked about sociology of religion. The aim is to mitigate the conceptual ambiguities within the subject. In so doing, the author has focused on the following eight binaries: believer/sociologist; divine/humanly; generalizable/non-generalizable; reducible/irreducible; external-quantitative/internal-qualitative; exigent/contingent (or necessary/probable); universalism/particularism (or inclusive/exclusive); religious sociology/sociology of religion.
Ahmad Karimi Behrouziyan; Neder Ofoghi; Hamid Ebadollahi
Abstract
The study examines the relationship between social class and university entrance exams at the Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamedan, using Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction. We did a survey and employed a questionnaire. In addition, we used a stratified random sampling method and chose 370 ...
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The study examines the relationship between social class and university entrance exams at the Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamedan, using Bourdieu's theory of cultural reproduction. We did a survey and employed a questionnaire. In addition, we used a stratified random sampling method and chose 370 students as a sample from the research population which consisted of 12500 students. Bivariate analyses showed that there was no meaningful relationship between social class, work ethic, hope, and food security and the rank of the entrance exam, but there was a meaningful relationship between social capital network, and IQ and the rank of entrance exam. The findings also demonstrated that there was a meaningful difference between IQ and performance in the examination in popular and less popular fields, i.e. the students of popular fields answered the IQ questions quickly. But both groups of students had no difference in hope. And there was no difference between social class and performance in popular and less popular fields. Furthermore, we found an inverse relationship between food security and IQ rate.
M. Chalabi; N. Saghabashi
Volume 18, Issue 2 , July 2017, , Pages 28-43
Abstract
The present research attempts to review different approachs and examine the effects of the distribution of cultural, political, social, and material opportunities on individuals' healthy behaviours, using the theoretical pattern of super behavioural function.We did a survey and collected data from different ...
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The present research attempts to review different approachs and examine the effects of the distribution of cultural, political, social, and material opportunities on individuals' healthy behaviours, using the theoretical pattern of super behavioural function.We did a survey and collected data from different parts of Tehran. To analyze the data, Structural Equation Modeling was carried out. The results demonstrated that the residents of the developed parts of Tehran look more after their health. Furthermore, of the excisting opportunity in the society, social opportunities and cultural opportunities affect the health behaviour of the Tehrani citizens more than the other opportunities. In addition, the political and opportunities and material opportunities influence their healthy behaviour directtly and indirectly.
T. Azadarmaki; A. Janadeleh
Volume 15, Issue 3 , September 2013, , Pages 29-64
Abstract
The dominant theoretical approach in historical sociology of Iran- regarding the
image of Iranian society in which the absolute power and despotism prevented
the development of associations, guilds, social classes or entirely any
independent forces- inevitably has led to the "absence of society" as ...
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The dominant theoretical approach in historical sociology of Iran- regarding the
image of Iranian society in which the absolute power and despotism prevented
the development of associations, guilds, social classes or entirely any
independent forces- inevitably has led to the "absence of society" as "social
forces" that had an effective role in the development of Iranian society. Using
the historical institutionalism approach, this article provides an alternative
narrative of the traditional Iranian society that acknowledges the role of the
multiple social forces, institutions and agencies. According to this alternative
narrative, the institutional configuration of the Qajar era, was based on a
complex network of interactions between the four main institutions of central
government, the clergy, tribes and market, resulting in relatively stable
institutional balance between the institutions. This institutional balance is not
based on the domination of one institution to the others but it is based on the
balance of power between those institutions .This institutional balance, rooted in
the formation of Safavid government which itself was a combination of tribal
forces and ideological power.
Mohammad Abdilahi; F Rad
Volume 10, Issue 1 , March 2009, , Pages 29-63
Abstract
This research aims to answer these questions: firstly; political development in the sense of participation development and political competition has gone through what process and has left behind what ups and downs after Constitutional Revolution? Secondly; during this long- term, political development ...
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This research aims to answer these questions: firstly; political development in the sense of participation development and political competition has gone through what process and has left behind what ups and downs after Constitutional Revolution? Secondly; during this long- term, political development in this country has encountered what impediments and serious challenges? To answer these questions, which are discussed in the realm of political sociology, we used Chandhoke, Moore, Huntington, Skocpol and Lociani theories about civil society's weak points and rentier states authority- as impediments and serious challenges in political development, and finally this hypothesis was proposed that the more concentration and exclusive reliance of government on oil income and the more civil society's base weak, the less the possibility of political development achievement in society. Study and test of this hypothesis in assistance of valued historical documents and evidence and accurate statistical documents showed in every term that the government was rentirely characterized and became independent of peoples tax and enjoyed central power, it always tighten the realm for civil society activities, therefore, it has hindered establishment of political development. In contrast, when rentiral characteristics and traits of government became some how less, or the government became weak and experienced financial crisis, the government inclined to levying tax on people and therefore, valued opportunity for growth and evolution of civil society and political development in this country was prepared. To regard development phenomenon and political development as a historical realities which has its roots in long- term social evolutions and transformation, willy- nilly will drive this research to historical research, because it is supposed that political development in every society has its own special history. Therefore, in the framework of this method, we have also scientifically studied six definite, historic courses during (1304- 1382) when the country alternately has experienced political expansion and limitation. .
Aref Shakarami; Zahra Ghasemi; Zabih Allah Sedfi
Abstract
The main aim of the present study is to investigate the married people’s attitude towards emotional divorce. For this purpose, 400 married people were selected from Khorramabad city using a cluster sampling method. The independent variables of the research were social trust, commitment to social ...
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The main aim of the present study is to investigate the married people’s attitude towards emotional divorce. For this purpose, 400 married people were selected from Khorramabad city using a cluster sampling method. The independent variables of the research were social trust, commitment to social norms, and habitus. Also in order to measure the emotional divorce, we constructed a scale based on Chalabi and Baudrillard’s theories. The descriptive results showed that %41 of married people had a positive attitude toward emotional divorce, while%31 had a negative attitude about it. Multiple regression analysis revealed that %44 of attitudes toward emotional divorce are explained by a decrease in social trust and commitment to social norms and an increase in habitus differences. In a path analysis, social trust has had the most influence and the commitment to social norms have the least effect on the attitude of married individuals to emotional divorce.
sociology
Omid Babaei; Mohammad Javad Zahedi Mazanderani
Abstract
Despite some claims about the death of class, It is still an essential issue in sociological studies of the medium range and especially in determining religious preferences in such a way that religious activists tend to religious styles related and appropriate to their socio-economic situation. ...
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Despite some claims about the death of class, It is still an essential issue in sociological studies of the medium range and especially in determining religious preferences in such a way that religious activists tend to religious styles related and appropriate to their socio-economic situation. In other words, people with different socio-economic situations have different religious tastes. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the religious taste of the urban lower class. This research was conducted with a qualitative approach and grounded theory method. The participants in this research are religious activists from the urban lower class in Shahrekord, who were selected through purposeful criterion-based sampling. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with eighteen people of this class. In order to analyze the data, open, central ,and selective coding methods were used, and Guba and Lincoln criteria were used to ensure validity and reliability. The findings show eighteen selected categories in the form of a paradigmatic model with a main category (ritualization of religion), causal conditions (collectivism, traditionalism, fatalism ,and being emotional), contextual conditions (ritual-oriented religious socialization), intervention conditions (low social-economic status), strategies (ritual religiosity, emotional religiosity, mediated religiosity, obligatory religiosity, hereditary religiosity ,and fatalistic religiosity) and consequences (religious reductionism, religious formalism, carnivalization of rituals, maddah-oriented, religious embodiment) is organized. The results show that rituals have a prominent, important ,and influential place in the religious taste of the urban lower class ,and it is not possible to determine this place without understanding the logic of popular religion and understanding the logic of rituals in popular religion.
M. A. Ghanei Rad; A. Maleki; Z. Mohammadi
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2011, , Pages 30-64
Abstract
Science institution and university have their own cultures and like other phenomena have been changed over time. It seems Iranian academic culture has changed in recent years. The paper aims to study cultural changes at university and its consequences.
The research method is qualitative and in ...
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Science institution and university have their own cultures and like other phenomena have been changed over time. It seems Iranian academic culture has changed in recent years. The paper aims to study cultural changes at university and its consequences.
The research method is qualitative and in order to capture the meaning domain, Grounded Theory (GT) is used. In this study, we have conducted semi-structured interviews with 34 lectures of social sciences at Tehran universities. Coding and data extraction is performed with the use of Atlas/ Ti software.
The findings consist of the major categories of social, intervening and contextual conditions, recruitment, evaluation and promotion of professors, knowledge organization and professors' strategies. According to the interactions between conditions and phenomena in terms of cultural transition, descriptive narration displayed on the core category of "recruitment, evaluation and promotion" which represents anomy of knowledge production and knowledge transmission.
M. A. Ghanei Rad; A. Maleki; Z. Mohammadi
Volume 15, Issue 1 , March 2013, , Pages 30-64
Abstract
Science institution and university have their own cultures and like
other phenomena have been changed over time. It seems Iranian academic
culture has changed in recent years. The paper aims to study cultural changes at
university and its consequences.
The research method is qualitative and in order ...
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Science institution and university have their own cultures and like
other phenomena have been changed over time. It seems Iranian academic
culture has changed in recent years. The paper aims to study cultural changes at
university and its consequences.
The research method is qualitative and in order to capture the meaning
domain, Grounded Theory (GT) is used. In this study, we have conducted semistructured
interviews with 34 lectures of social sciences at Tehran universities.
Coding and data extraction is performed with the use of Atlas/ Ti software.
The findings consist of the major categories of social, intervening and
contextual conditions, recruitment, evaluation and promotion of professors,
knowledge organization and professors' strategies. According to the interactions
between conditions and phenomena in terms of cultural transition, descriptive
narration displayed on the core category of "recruitment, evaluation and
promotion" which represents anomy of knowledge production and knowledge
transmission.
B. Sadighi
Volume 15, Issue 4 , December 2014, , Pages 30-53
Abstract
What should be the characteristics of public sociology in Iran? This normative
question is important, since public sociology is still in its early stages in our
country. To me the roots of public sociology are in the public sphere. Therefore,
I will review the major theoretical perspectives on public ...
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What should be the characteristics of public sociology in Iran? This normative
question is important, since public sociology is still in its early stages in our
country. To me the roots of public sociology are in the public sphere. Therefore,
I will review the major theoretical perspectives on public sphere, including
Haberma’s and Arendt’s t perspectives. Then I will focus on Burawoy’s
narration for public sociology and compare it with those perspectives in order to
propose an alternative narration. In the second section of the paper, I will review
the institutional and non-institutional part of the public sphere in Iran. This paper
claims that Iranian public sphere is in harmony with Arendt’s perspective. At the
end, based on the characteristics of Iranian public sphere, I will propose an
outline of public sociology in the above society, and mention its theoretical and
methodological aspects.
A. Soltani; M.J. Zahedi
Volume 18, Issue 4 , November 2018, , Pages 30-52
Abstract
Due to the social innate of the human being, loneliness is basically impossible. Society is formed not by "me" but with the “other” which is "you". Bakhtin is one of those who discusses that other`s entity is what makes "self". In this paper, "self" and "other" are discussed in Nima`s thought. ...
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Due to the social innate of the human being, loneliness is basically impossible. Society is formed not by "me" but with the “other” which is "you". Bakhtin is one of those who discusses that other`s entity is what makes "self". In this paper, "self" and "other" are discussed in Nima`s thought. By "other", we mean another voice and language other than mine. In addition, the paper attempted to assess different aspects of this issue. For this purpose, the ideas of Michael Bakhtin, a Russian scholar, have been used. The present research was based on the qualitative method and discourse analysis, qualitative content analysis, and sensitivity analysis were also used.
The findings showed that Nima, by discussing subjects such as "self" and "other", is one of those post-Constitution (Mashroutiat) poets in Iran who works on this subject seriously. But due to his obsession to Hegel`s dialectic, in later stages of his work, Nima seizes the difference between "I" and "other" to the benefit of a unified, coherent and unique world.
S K. Mousavi; A. Mousavi
Volume 14, Issue 3 , September 2012, , Pages 31-51
Abstract
Considering the fast penetration of mobile phone and its multidimensional influences on different aspects of social life, this article is dealing with the possible relation between mobile use pattern and mutual conjugal trust.
Taking advantage of Geser’s theory about mobile phone’s impacts ...
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Considering the fast penetration of mobile phone and its multidimensional influences on different aspects of social life, this article is dealing with the possible relation between mobile use pattern and mutual conjugal trust.
Taking advantage of Geser’s theory about mobile phone’s impacts on family relations and Sztompka’s theory about “social trust”, we explored some questions and several hypotheses which were examined in Dec. 2012 among 384 married residents of Shiraz. Research sample was selected by Cochran sampling formula and through cluster sampling method. Some of the main findings of the research are:
There is no significant relation between “kind” or “probation” of mobile phone use and “conjugal Trust”.
There is significant relation between “mobile phone use rate” and conjugal trust.
There is There is significant relation between “space of the mobile use” and conjugal trust.
The most impact of mobile phone use is seen on “mutual conjugal honesty” as one of three components of conjugal trust.
S.A Nabavi; M SHahriyari
Volume 13, Issue 13 , March 2012, , Pages 32-58
Abstract
This paper aims at studying the effects of family involvement, feeling of family role overload, family role ambiguity and social support in family on the conflicting working family. In this study we have tried to present a model for explaining family-work-conflict by employing certain theories related ...
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This paper aims at studying the effects of family involvement, feeling of family role overload, family role ambiguity and social support in family on the conflicting working family. In this study we have tried to present a model for explaining family-work-conflict by employing certain theories related to both role and family conflict situations. This model develops two general ideas including family and social support factors affecting family-work-conflict. In order to test the model empirically the concepts were defined, related measures were constructed and their reliability and validity were attained. The results were acceptable. This research is conducted using the survey method. Stratified random sampling has been used for selection of the samples. Main instrument of data collection used in this study was the questionnaire. The sample of the research includes 360 members drawn from the married female state employees of in Ahvaz, capital city of khusestan province in south west of Iran, in the year Results indicated that family's social support does not significantly affect the conflicting working family. Yet it decreasingly affects such a family through the feeling of family role overload and family role ambiguity variables. Family involvement variable, in addition to affecting directly the conflicting working family, it also affects such a family indirectly through the feeling of family role overload variable. Also, the findings showed that feeling of family role overload and family role ambiguity variables directly affect the conflicting working family.
H.R Jalaeipour
Volume 10, Issue 2 , July 2009, , Pages 32-54
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to evaluate the progress of the formation of “nation-state” in Iran. Contrary to scholars who argue that the process of “nation-state” building in Iran has not progressed during the last century, this paper illustrates how contemporary Iran has successfully ...
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This paper is an attempt to evaluate the progress of the formation of “nation-state” in Iran. Contrary to scholars who argue that the process of “nation-state” building in Iran has not progressed during the last century, this paper illustrates how contemporary Iran has successfully cultivated most of the key features and elements of modern nation-states. It will, however, also focus on the main weaknesses of nation-state in Iran which are generally to do with the failure to develop a modern democracy. After a review of the theoretical literature on the features of modern-nation states, this paper will argue that the increasing institutional differentiation and division of labor, growth of middle class, growth of service and industry sector as opposed to agriculture sector, improved civil awareness, increasing involvement of women in public sphere, expansion of communications and media, rise of NGOs, and dominance of democratic discourse which are all among the features of contemporary Iranian society and politics, have set a suitable stage for the remedy of the democratic weaknesses of nation-state in Iran
M CHalbi; S.M Mosavi
Volume 9, 1,2 , March 2008, , Pages 34-57
Abstract
This study is intended to provide theoretical and empirical analyses of happiness both at micro level and macro level. At micro level, a social survey was conducted in cities of Tehran, Yazd And Ardakan with sample size of 386. Oxford standard happiness inventory was employed as' the measurement scale ...
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This study is intended to provide theoretical and empirical analyses of happiness both at micro level and macro level. At micro level, a social survey was conducted in cities of Tehran, Yazd And Ardakan with sample size of 386. Oxford standard happiness inventory was employed as' the measurement scale of happiness at this level. At macro level a quantitative comparative analysis was conducted based on world value survey (4th wave ) for 69 countries. Findings show that average score of happiness for all three cities is low. Besides that among sixty nine countries, the rank order of happiness for Iran is 61. Multiple variable analyses indicate that among different factors such as trust, friendship, family relationship, lack of social isolation at micro level and social capital ta macro level have direct impact on happiness.
A. M. Hazeri; E. Rezapour
Volume 14, Issue 4 , December 2013, , Pages 35-62
Abstract
The study examines the effect of teacher - student
relationship and rate of student cultural capital on appearance of student
resistance against school norms. According to Althusser's view,
education system is considered as an ideological apparatus of state that
reproduces ruling system. But critical ...
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The study examines the effect of teacher - student
relationship and rate of student cultural capital on appearance of student
resistance against school norms. According to Althusser's view,
education system is considered as an ideological apparatus of state that
reproduces ruling system. But critical thinkers of pedagogy believe that
there is student resistance against ruling system agenda that emancipates
them. This study claims that the type of student-teacher relationship and
rate of student's cultural capital is more likely effective in the emergence
of resistance. The study is done based on sample of 310 male high
school students in Tehran. We did a survey and findings show that the
relationship between the two variables, type of teacher-student
relationship and resistance is significant, so the first hypothesis is
confirmed. The results of the bivariate analysis revealed that there is a
significant correlation between cultural capital and student resistance.
Beta coefficient in regression analysis for teacher-student relationship
showed that it has a stronger impact on the dependent variable among
other independent variables.
