Iranian Journal of Sociology

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 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.
 

Abstract Suicide refers to a deliberate and conscious action of ending the person's life. The evidence suggested that the suicide rate is increasing in the contemporary world. This phenomenon is considered a social problem, a high-risk behavior, and a disease by sociologists, criminologists, psychologists, and physicialus. The present article attempted to investigate the failed suicide attempts of women in the city of Ilam using the grounded theory. The research population was the women Iranian who committed suicide. After doing twenty interviews, we reached theoretical saturation. To measure the research reliability, 3 techniques were used: analytical comparison, respondents' opinions, and experts' opinions. In the end, the main hypothesis was extracted by analyzing and coding the interviews. Findings revealed that the reasons for suicide were: tension in life, dysfunctional families, belief in change, belief in freedom, economic context, incomplete social-religious socialization, normative pressure, and normative contradiction with reality.

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.