Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract This study investigates the construction of a memory of the Movement of Gilan among the participant's descendants in the movement. The underlying theories are presentism, social cadres of memory, and findings of Schuman, Schwartz, Arcy, Larson, and Lizardo. The research population is the descendants whose ancestors participated in the Jungle Movement. A sample of 26 people was selected and interviewed. Then the interviews were analyzed by thematic content analysis. Findings indicated the ethnicization of memory and otherization in narrating the event among Gilak ethnicity. Gilaks had united and ethnic narration but on the contrary,Talyshis had pluralistic and non-ethnic narration. The narration of the Jungle Movement was different according to the education levels of the correspondents. It means that people with higher education at a “national-international”  level had a comprehensive and historical approach and people with a basic education at the “ethnic-indigenous” level had a religious approach in narrating the event. The former emphasized intellectual and modernist essence and the latter emphasized the religious essence of the event. They remembered the event in the framework of resistant collective memory and formal collective memory policy respectively.

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 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.

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 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.