Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract Social isolation is one of the critical issues in contemporary urban societies, entailing extensive consequences across individual, familial, and social dimensions. Within this context, lifestyle, as a key construct, plays a pivotal role in strengthening or weakening social bonds, thereby reducing or exacerbating social isolation. Accordingly, the present study aimed to develop an Interpretive Structural Model (ISM) of factors affecting lifestyle to reduce social isolation among citizens of Karaj. This research is applied in terms of objective and qualitative in terms of methodology. In the first step, factors influencing lifestyle to mitigate social isolation were identified through a review of theoretical foundations, research literature, and interviews with 12 academic experts in Karaj. In the second step, the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) technique was employed via Microsoft Excel to model and analyze the interrelationships among these factors.

Abstract Cyberspace has now become a part of the daily lives of more than 67 Iranian users; this study aims to gain a better understanding of the impact of Web 2 technologies on society and the actions of Iranian users in cyberspace. Methodologically, this research is of secondary analysis type, and the studied sample is 732 articles published in social sciences in the period of 2002 to 2021. The findings of this study show that Web 2 technologies weaken the religious and national identities and family values of Iranian users. These technologies also increase social relations, social capital and political participation of Iranian users. On the other hand, "emergent social problems and phenomena" have arisen in cyberspace, such as Internet addiction, cyber crime, virtual mourning, virtual pilgrimage, etc.

Abstract This article deals with the culture and lifestyle of the upper class in Iran. In this study, the upper class is defined by one's occupation, income, location of residence, house, and car model. We used thematic analysis of the qualitative method. In addition, we selected 22 people as our research sample and carried out semi-structured interviews. Moreover, the concepts of lifestyle and culture were defined based on the theory of Bourdieu, Veblen, and Eliot. Research findings demonstrated that the Iranian upper class has low cultural knowledge and literacy, multi-tastes, and cultural ambivalence. Therefore, it is hard to identify a typology of a distinct lifestyle.
 

Abstract The main purpose of this article is to study the relationship between the cultural capital and lifestyle among the middle class citizens of Sanandaj city, Kurdistan, Iran. The theoretical hypothesis behind this issue is that lifestyles are shaped in relation to the types and degree of social capitals in society. Also, lifestyles have a main role in constructing identities, meanings, attitudes, schemas, tastes and behaviors. The theoretical framework of this article is based on Bourdieu, Chaney, Sobel and Giddens’s viewpoints in the social sciences. The population comprises of Sanandaj middle class residents from which a sample has been selected according to its main internal strata. Also, we used the questionnaire to gather the data and information. The findings show that there is a positive and meaningful correlation between cultural capital and its different forms with lifestyle. Among the different forms of cultural capital, the embodied one has the most degree of relationship with lifestyle among the middle class residents of Sanandaj city.