Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract Chronic diseases are one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in this age. Adopting a healthy lifestyle is one of the best ways to cope whit these types of diseases. The aim of this research was to study The structural – capital determinants of healthy lifestyle among patients with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) before the disease. The research method is a  survey and regarding time, it is cross-sectional. The sample size was 412 patients (including 239 men and 173 women). The results of "Structural Equation Modeling" showed that the collected data, the structural model with exogenous variables "socioeconomic status", "life condition" and "health relevant capital" confirmed to an acceptable extent.  The total effect of these three variables on a healthy lifestyle was equal to 0.46. In other words, 0.46 of healthy lifestyle changes the among patients can be explained by these three variables and 0.54 of unexplained variance is related to the variables out of the equation.    

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 It is impossible to explain the treatment patterns from the medical sciences point of view alone. The selection of treatment method could be mostly influenced by the cultural and social variables. Due to the high importance of fertility in some countries, particularly in our traditional culture, the infertile people try to use different treatment methods to treat their infertility ranging from traditional methods to modern ones. This study was done in Mazandaran province by the use of a mixed method. Applying a theoretical sampling, we selected our sample and employed in-depth face-to-face interviews with 28 infertile women and afterward we transcribed them. Then, the categories such as pilgrimage, treatment prayer, the person whose prayer is granted, and prayer writer were extracted from the interviews. After that, we did a survey and interviewed with 95 customers of the infertility centers of Mazandaran province using a random sampling method. The findings of the survey revealed that treatment prayer (21%) and pilgrimage (16%) had highest frequencies while seeing the local practitioner and believing in magician (2%) had the lowest frequency. In the end, based on the factors such as education, age, infertility time, place of residence, and family's income, the possibility of choosing each treatment method was examined.