Iranian Journal of Sociology

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 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.

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 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.

Abstract Based on Habermas theory of Knowlage and human interests,  the authors analays the articles of Iranian journal of sociology from 1381 till 1384. The findings shows that among 86 article: 59 article have Naturwissenschaften approach, 25 article have Geisteswissenschaften and 2 ones have emancipatory approach. Although positivism is dominant on sociology of Iran, but there is a disturbance in theory and methodology and relationship between them. While the only aim of positivism is social engineering,  Iranian positivism doesnot attention to it. In the Geisteswissenschaften, there is a great  inconsistency in the structural of articles. For example, The presence of universal concept and rules beside particular ones. althogh the aim of this knowlage is understanding social phenomena and regarding to the cultural differences, but Iranian sociology dosent attention to it. Ultimately, wherase there are some epistemological problems in Iranian sociology, there isn’t distinct intrest in it except personal interest.