sociology
j Rashidi
Abstract
urban social policy and social exclusion can open a window to narrate the excluding of body and poverty from urban spaces in the city. The mainstream of Sociology does not offer a critical articulation about excluded social groups from the urban live. It usually adopts a pathological approach ...
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urban social policy and social exclusion can open a window to narrate the excluding of body and poverty from urban spaces in the city. The mainstream of Sociology does not offer a critical articulation about excluded social groups from the urban live. It usually adopts a pathological approach to the urban poor and a normative and clinical insight about the "body" throughout the moment of constructing the urban spaces. Critical reading, however, focuses on urban social policies that cause social exclusion of citizens, and for this reason, a new formulation of urban problem as well as exclusion from the city would be possible, which at the same time recognizes the moral anger of the excluded, and shows the constructing mechanisms of the criteria of "non- disabled bodies" and how "bodies" are heterogeneous to this norm and the urban poor are also excluded from the urban policy agenda. Therefore, despite the environmental and socio-economic barriers in the city, the excluded from the city become angry and rebellious activists who adopt a kind of devastating/deconstructing hermeneutics toward urban life.
Method of the research is qualitative by gathering data through interview, observation, previous researches, lived experiences of researcher and a novel. Organization of data occurred by sociological reconstructed narrations in the form of “social novels”. And in order to obtain the objectivity of the narratives, the opinions of people involved in similar situations described in the narratives or researchers in this field were taken, and the feedback was also included in the final narratives.
Finally, the city is built for the privileged classes and non-disabled bodies, and the urban excluded groups, in accordance with the inferior hermeneutic position assigned to them in urban life, generally experience various obstacles through their daily practices and by being in urban spaces, and the city and the achievements of urban life for them, will become more "unattainable" and will creates a moral anger toward the society and leads to adoption of a destructive hermeneutic by them. Results captured that the urban excluded groups, attack the urban life ultimately because of the perceived urban injustices and inequalities therefore they achieve a deconstructing hermeneutic abbot the urban.
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.
sociology
Zahra Feizi; Allah Karam Karamipour; Hasan Mohaddesi Kilvaei
Abstract
This article has been done with a qualitative methodological approach and with the method of narrative analysis. The participant sample is acute religious conversion in Tehran who have been selected by purposive sampling by a snowball method. In this؛ narrative interviews were conducted with 20 of these ...
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This article has been done with a qualitative methodological approach and with the method of narrative analysis. The participant sample is acute religious conversion in Tehran who have been selected by purposive sampling by a snowball method. In this؛ narrative interviews were conducted with 20 of these modifiers؛ 19 of whom provided accurate information about their conversion؛ and the research was saturated with this number. The findings showed that in the set of causes؛ the causes of socio-political؛ social-psychological؛ social-relationship were the most common causes of religious conversion among modifiers. This study showed that the stages of conversion in Tehran are different from what is stated in the theories of the scholars such as Rambo؛ Lofland؛ and Stark. The bottom line is that socio-political instability and insecurity and psychological turmoil are the most important explanatory causes for religious conversion
sociology
Reza Taslimi Tehrani
Abstract
The present article aims to study and analyze the advent of new middle class in Iran society via studying different lifestyle indices such as architecture, social relationships, and leisure time in order to clarify new middle class members’ thoughts, values, and worldview in the first Pahlavi ...
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The present article aims to study and analyze the advent of new middle class in Iran society via studying different lifestyle indices such as architecture, social relationships, and leisure time in order to clarify new middle class members’ thoughts, values, and worldview in the first Pahlavi era. To carry out the research in this direction, it was designed to employ historical method and qualitative content analysis focusing on architecture and literature as two salient fields, and analyze different primary and secondary sources such as books, novels, reports, and etc. Based on the findings of research, considering architecture evolution and reviewing selected novels of that time indicate the advent of new middle class and its distinctive lifestyle in the first Pahlavi era. The review and analysis of collected information indicate individualism, nationalism, and modernism as the most crucial categories which illustrate new middle class values and worldview in the first Pahlavi era.
sociology
Zahra Soleimani Alavijeh; Mohammad reza Pouyafar; Khadijeh Zolghadr
Abstract
The study is conducted with the aim of studying the redefinition of religion in the everyday life experience of women in Tehran. For this purpose, qualitative approach and grounded theory method were used. Sampling was done in a targeted way and among the students born in the 50s and 60s of Islamic ...
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The study is conducted with the aim of studying the redefinition of religion in the everyday life experience of women in Tehran. For this purpose, qualitative approach and grounded theory method were used. Sampling was done in a targeted way and among the students born in the 50s and 60s of Islamic Azad Universities in Tehran. The data were analyzed at three levels of open, central and selective coding. The paradigm model resulting from the core categories also showed that the causal conditions for the phenomenon of redefinition of religion were the media's role in confronting religion, questioning personal experiences of religion, and the role of education in creating a new attitude towards religion. The results confirm that the religiosity of women has undergone many changes that it is necessary to pay attention to it in policy-making.
sociology
Somayeh Tohidlou
Abstract
The second half of 1401 was full of incidents and protests in Iran. Simultaneously with these protests, many sociologists analyzed these events. The present article is a synthesis of their analyzes ( including 40 lectures in the Iranian Sociological Association and a collection of 46 analytical ...
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The second half of 1401 was full of incidents and protests in Iran. Simultaneously with these protests, many sociologists analyzed these events. The present article is a synthesis of their analyzes ( including 40 lectures in the Iranian Sociological Association and a collection of 46 analytical notes) about these protests. In addition of presenting presenting a profile of the most important topics, a summary of the causes, nature and consequences of these protests from the perspective of analysts has been presented. On the other hand, dominant theories have been used, the distance that each analyst has towards the protests and five theoretical approaches (functionalists, correlationists, cultural interpreters, followers of new life movements and those who give importance to relations and social assemblies) were presented from the set of analyses.
