Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract Studies show that what has been the focus of attention in empirical understandings of partnership includes attending to participation criterions, participatory activities and sometimes investigating its barriers. Besides emphasizing such studies, this paper with prioritizing participation criterions, takes the spirit of partnership as its first priority. Furthermore, the paper tries to investigate this subject matter with reference to theoretical issues, reliance on utilitarian concepts and discussing subjects like social alienation, life satisfaction and faith. The study used multi-stage sampling and distributed 400 questionnaires among the Islamic Azad University students of district seven of the country (Kerman and Hormozgan provinces). The findings show that with the exception of the life satisfaction variable, all other assumptions are meaningful although the rate and direction of their impact is different. In addition the regression coefficient indicates the greater effect of the variables of decline of religious beliefs, opposition of values and social faith on changes of dependent variable.

Abstract The purpose of present study is to investigate individual/society dualism in Durkheim’s works. Such problematic was introduced by Durkheim in the Division of Labour. ThePresent paper tries to show that Durkheim moved beyond this dualism in his later works. By focusing on moral individualism, at first he rejects essentialism in Spencer, Comte, utilitarian economists and psychologism. Secondly, he develops a conception of individualism which is meaningful in the context of society, not being opposite to it. In this way according to Durkheim, society is a moral existence and individualism is not based on arbitrary or economic ego, but on social morality. At last, for Durkheim, the main social force for extending moral individualism in modern society is education.