Iranian Journal of Sociology

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.

Abstract The paper tries to show the effect of life style on social identity. On the base of  Pierre Bourdieu's theory about distinction ,we suppose that cultural consumption and body management as the dimensions of  life style affect ethical, religious and cosmopolitan identity. Having used probability sample, we chose 323 Sanandaji youths as the target population. Results from the SEM method demonstrate that empirical data does not support our own model. In other words, cultural consumption and the management of body have no significant correlations with ethical, religious and cosmopolitan identity. 

Abstract The emergance of intellectual groups in Iran and its aftermath , the beginning of intellectual movement with the aim of modernization as its goal, is related to the threshold of Constitution. Intellectuals had an important historical role at the era of Constitution until the epoch of the first Pahlavi. They were pioneers of modernity and modernization in the country. The social and mind origin of those intellectuals and the concepts and issues they were involved are the basic subjects of historical sociology and one of the basic debate in the realm of Sociology of intellectuals in Iran. The identity of these intellectuals and the nature of their social and political thoughts, the issue that how they perform their social and historical roles, their social status and their relationships with people and state are the basic objects in this research. The methodology of research is analytical and critical approach by using meta analysis and historical method this way we use Weberian approach in historical events and reconstruction them; also the views of other thinkers like Parsons, Gramsic, Mannheim and so on about the social roles of intellectuals have been used. The basic aim of this research , is sociological explanation of social and political role of intellectuals in the Constitution era and the epoch of the firs Pahlavi period and search of response for this question that: "Why intellectuals protect their influentioal social and political situations. To answer this question, some assumptions have presented and been studies. the results of the research show that some Iranian intellectuals in the constitution era by adoptiong reductionism (to reduce modern concepts to traditional one) and some others by taking French Enlightenment pattern which was followed by violence strategy cause to disappear their influential social and political situations in society. Also the eroded structure of society and it's dominated traditional culture and destructive role of traditional culture's protectors and absolutely minority of educated strata and middle class were effective on stratification and cultural (musical) consumption. We measure social stratification with class and status and cultural consumption with kind and frequency of consumption. To investigate the research assumptions, first, we have classified kinds of music to categories (elite/mass position) and second, we have gathered data through survey method among four districts of tehran as the areas showing high and low class and status symbols. In addition to the survey method and the questionnaire, the library method was also used for determining some of the references concerning the relationship between social stratification and cultural consumption. The Findings show that relationship between social stratification and Cultural Consumption. The Findings show that relationship between social stratification and cultural (musical) consumption if a positive and significant relationship; status, rather than class, is correlative with kind and frequency of cultural (musical) consumption; people who belong to high status prefer consuming elite music and people who belong to low status prefer consuming mass music.