Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract Validity issues in phenomenological research are what this article investigates. Phenomenology is an attempt to enrich the world as it is experienced, and for its method -a mere emphasis on pure "description"- an alternative has been found, "to interpret" the experience. Descriptive phenomenology ensures that descriptions reflect the phenomenon as it was first experienced by the participants. Interpretive phenomenology, however, wants to determine the meanings of the phenomenon just as they appear in the participant's mind. In descriptive phenomenology, validity issues have been investigated in different ways: (1) a fundamental description of the phenomenon must be able to correctly capture the essence that has been intuited; (2) experts can be used to judge phenomenological analysis; (3) return to participants. In interpretative phenomenology, what is important is whether the phenomenological interpretations of meaning structures are valid, and the themes and the insights inferenced from the descriptions are appropriate and novel?

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The emergence of inclusive and income-generating social networks such as Instagram in today's era, which has provided the ability to display and share daily life events for its users; This has caused us to face the novel and new phenomenon of "virtual working children" or "Instagram working children", children who actually work as virtual workers under the command of their employers, including their parents or first-degree relatives, in these virtual social networks. Therefore, the sociological analysis of the social contexts of the formation and emergence of this phenomenon in society has been the main goal of this research. The research method is qualitative and based on foundation data, and the subjects were selected through purposive and snowball sampling. The participants are actually the parents of children who, as their employers, manage their work-advertising activities in the Instagram virtual network. Therefore, 20 parents answered the researcher's questions through semi-structured in-depth interviews. The type of activities and tasks done by children on the Instagram social network are classified into three categories: A- Advertising works, B- Demonstration works and C- Service works. The data from this research was extracted after the three stages of coding, including open, central and selective, a total of 255 concepts, 22 sub-categories and 4 main categories. The categories are: "virtual bio-business, virtual child, fluid identity and the ultimate desirability of parent-centered" and finally by combining the obtained models. The core category of "virtual slave child" was introduced. A type of modern slavery and virtual exploitation that is carried out in the streets by street children to provide a minimum livelihood and survive, but in cyber space with the aim of earning millions, becoming a celebrity and displaying all aspects of their lives by the parents-employers of virtual children. It is visible.

Abstract The people of Isfahan have consistently faced the challenge of economic sanctions while living in post-revolutionary Iran. Since 2011, sanctions have intensified and have seriously impacted the everyday lives of Iranians with the goal of causing paralysis. This article aims to interpret the everyday lives of young people in Isfahan during the period of economic sanctions. The conceptual framework of the paper is inspired by Berger and Luckmann's social constructionism theory. The method used is narrative analysis. Episodic interviews were conducted with 16 young men aged 20 to 35, and the data were analyzed using thematic narrative analysis. The findings indicate that the main feature of everyday life during this period is a loss of agency. Although economic sanctions have disrupted the axiomatic aspects of everyday life, other axiomatic routines have been constructed through the struggles and experiences of the actors in this situation.
 
 

Abstract People in the society suffer more from mental feeling or perceived inequality than from real inequality. To explain the issue, in this research, we sought to investigate the social factors affecting the feeling of social inequalities and we tried to answer this question: what are the social factors affecting the feeling of social inequality in Isfahan city? In terms of controlling the research conditions, this research is a mixed method (survey and grounded theory). The statistical population of the current study is all citizens aged 18 and older living in Isfahan city. According to Cochran's formula, the sample size was 400 people, which was selected by random sampling according to the size. The data was collected with a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 28 items for independent variables and 18 items for the feeling of social inequality (dependent variable). Ensuring the validity of the questionnaire questions was done through the face validity method to ensure the quality of the instrument, the researcher used two criteria, checked its reliability and validity. Retest reliability was used to check the reliability, and the 99% reliability obtained indicated a very high reliability of the tool. To check the reliability, content validity was used (according to the Sen H Laushe formula - CVR coefficient) and the CVR coefficient was equal to 68%. To analyze the data, statistical methods of one-way analysis of variance and independent t-test were used. Based on the obtained results, there is a significant difference between the feeling of social inequality and the variables of social opportunities, geographical area and media programs. However, there is no significant difference between the feeling of social inequality and the variables of ethnicity, religion, social bases and education levels.  

Abstract Academic participants given the dominance of constructivist theories in academia, they use constructivism to describe this problem And because of the possibility of exacerbating the subject's disability by relativism of the constructivist approach, they make a cognitive turn towards the critical approach, but behaviorally and emotionally, due to the experience of the intervention of power blocs in the idea of indigenous science, they turn to a positivist approach and adapt the solution to a predetermined and standard sociology. According to the process analysis of the systematic grounded theory, this dichotomy and shift from a constructivist to a critical, and then a positivist, approach is more a function of a political and pragmatic move to conservatively critique power in Iran. But the adoption of this paradoxical model can lead to the reproduction of the current state of sociology in Iran by intensifying the lack of adherence to intellectual traditions and paradigms

Abstract  A song is a poetic-musical format that has been in line with people's requests and interests throughout history. These songs belong to the mass of people and as a result They have the most influence from popular culture. In the 1950s, coinciding with the end of Pahlavi rule, a kind of religious belief was formed among the intellectuals, which was defined exclusively in the face of tyranny; As a result, dealing with sacred images and religious myths became a kind of protest. Therefore, the main focus of this research is document analysis of the dominance of religious beliefs among modern songwriters and how these songwriters deal with sacred images and analysis of prominent songs with the theme of religious myths. The result of this research shows that the interest in depicting religious images in the songs of the second Pahlavi era has an apocalyptic aspect, and the singer seeks to find similarities between his era and the era of the saints with an allegorical view.  

Abstract Convenience and anonymity in choosing a spouse online helps people to achieve one of their main goals without the knowledge of family and friends, which is to create a romantic and committed relationship. The methodology of this article is based on the qualitative research strategy based on the method of thematic analysis of the collected data of 34 members of online dating groups was designed. For this purpose, relying on targeted sampling, interviews were conducted and theoretical saturation was obtained. Then the interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. The main themes identified are motivation (with two sub-themes of external motivation and internal motivation), anonymity (with concepts of entertainment and pastime, false goal, dishonesty, expected girls and distrust), deception (fake and concealment). The mentioned themes are associated with the theories of diffusion of innovation, use-satisfaction, and presumption of truth. Based on the conversations obtained, choosing a spouse online was divided into two groups: "avoidance of binding environments" and "avoidance of isolating environments".

Abstract The management of the development process, characterized by unequal interventions and access by elites, along with the performance of political institutions as drivers of development, is considered a significant factor influencing the distribution of development benefits between regions. The disparity in benefitting from developmental opportunities will result in population mobility and increased migration to urban centers and metropolises, consistently directing development policy towards central areas. In this article, alongside referencing theoretical foundations and reviewing previous research, we have examined the empirical aspects and governmental development measures based on an inductive approach, utilizing a mixed method incorporating two qualitative methodologies: document analysis of registered data and information, and qualitative interviews. In exploring the structural factors and political decisions influencing migration, registered data from documents compiled by the Budget and Planning Organization have been utilized, while qualitative interviews have been employed to elucidate the reasons and primary motives driving individuals' inclination towards migration. The research findings indicate the predominance of a centralized pattern in development policymaking. Examination of indicators reveals that a balanced and equitable distribution of development among provincial cities has not been achieved, with migration stemming from the unequal allocation of resources commensurate with the potentials and capacities of regions. Until there is a shift towards balancing the distribution of resources and acknowledging regional capacities in the implementation of development policies by policymakers and executors, the issue of population distribution imbalance will persist unresolved.  

Abstract This article analyzes the pre-modern state of Iran in the Qajar period by describing and using historical data. Its method is descriptive-analytical with the approach of historical sociology, which has used the technique of document review. The findings show: 1. Taxes and customs duties were the only sources of government revenue; Weak taxation and widespread corruption put the government in incurable financial straits. 2. The inability to pay the troops and maintain them permanently made it impossible to form military forces independent of the tribes, and the government was incapable of defending its borders and internal control. 3. The judicial system did not have a  unified procedure for passing and enforcing a law. These matters were left to influential people and local authorities outside capital and regional centres. 4. Power of bureacracy was almost limited to Tehran and it was not able to defend national borders. 5 On the other hand, the society was powerful. With different modes of production, military power and great solidarity, the tribes were  power centers independent  of established government. The above characteristics show that pre-modern government of Iran is inconsistent with the claim of the Asian mode of production theory that the state is powerful and has a comprehensive and centralized bureaucracy.Iranian society was also a strong and decentralized. Therefore, in order to understand Iranian society better, we should search for other more explainig theories and avoid orientalist perspective. 

Abstract One of the basic concerns in historical sociology is how the West developed with an emphasis on Britain. Despite the current belief that the time for such discussions has passed, this question is still one of the most basic and lively questions in various debates in historical sociology. Although Orientalism influences the current literature in this field, but it is totally different from what has been popularized under the title of Orientalism in Iran. This article aims to introduce one of the most controversial theories in the last two decades, which has simultaneously affected the fields of economic history and historical sociology. First, it is tried to explain the theoretical foundations of the Asian revisionism (California School) and its relationship with the theory of the great Divergence, then the empirical studies that have been carried out in the last two decades in this field are examined, and finally, some of the most important criticisms of the above theory are reviewed. Also, in a critical discussion, we examine the relationship of this current of thought in historical sociology with Foucault's view that dominates some works of historical sociology in Iran.
 

Abstract “Conflict" is seen as the essence of the employee -employer relationship in all conventional discourses as dialectic of polar and Hegelian type, where conflict is essentially transformed into contradiction. However, Simmel and Gurvitch attention and understanding of dialectic can bring about fundamental changes in the relationship between employee and employers. The discovery, recognition, and examination of the existing backgrounds and issues and their role in the worker-employer relationship are among the objectives of this research. The research was conducted using an inductive fieldwork strategy with a grounded theory approach. Non-formal observation tools were employed, and the researcher participated fully. Formal and informal interview techniques were also used, and discourse analysis and situational analysis were employed in data analysis. The results demonstrate that understanding roles in the relationship between employee and employers and overcoming the contradictory view of each party can lead to confusion between employee and employers. In other words, the emergence of a multidimensional dialectic instead of a unidimensional or polar dialectic recognizes contradictions and differences, and understanding it can distance oneself from the strategy of constant struggle and replace it with a strategy of negotiation. This strategy can facilitate the interests and demands of both groups.
 
Conflict of interest: According to the authors, the article did not have any conflict of interest.
 

Abstract  This article aims to study the structure of the guilds (vocational interest groups) as one of the most important group organizations in the cities of pre-modern Iranian society. The "embedded networks" approach borrowed from the new economic sociology has been used to study this question. It is a case study about guilds  in the marketplace of Tehran in the period of 1800-1906 AD. In order to study the "form of governance" of the structure of guilds in the Tehran bazaar in this period, three characteristics, namely durable relations, multiplex interactions, and crosscutting ties, have been considered. Studying these characteristics showed that guilds in the Tehran bazaar in the 19th century enjoyed a network structure in the form of "Cooperative hierarchies". The Guilds made the Tehran Bazaar an orderly complex of organized networks. Therefore, the Tehran Bazaar of the 19th century was not a formless and disorderly mass but a structured and orderly complex composed of organized and integrated guild networks.
 

Abstract Marriage under the age of 15 is called early marriage or child marriage, which is a sign of discrimination and violence against women. This phenomenon is a global problem and it is increasing in developing countries due to economic and cultural factors The paper aims at discovering the relationship between macroeconomic indicators and early marriage during .2010-2013 based on the data provided by Iran Statistical Centre. This is a "secondary analysis" based on previously collected data. The statistical population of the study are all 31 provinces of the country and the time interval between 2011 to 2021 have been studied. Excel and SPSS 25 data analysis tools and Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple linear regressions were used. Pearson's test shows that provinces with higher unemployment rate (r=0.366) and higher fertility rate (r=-0.363) had the highest rate of early marriage. Finally, the regression model indicates that the macroeconomic index variables (coefficient Gini = 0.334, unemployment rate = 0.321, changes in inflation rate = 0.297, and changes in the Gini coefficient = 0.282 have a significant effect on the rate of early marriage in all provinces respectively. As a result, it can be said that increase in the rate of inflation and unemployment as well as Gini coefficient between 2012 and 2021 are significant factors in explaining increase the proportion of marriages under 15 in all provinces of the country

Abstract In the Safavid focal point, we saw the birth of a new discourse in which happiness was linked with the subject of salvation in the afterlife. The primary propositions of this discourse appeared in various speeches and numerous acceptance and refutation Jurisprudence treatise and were visible in various forms. In the present study, we intend to answer the question by showing the levels of emergence and genesis of the subject, through places which happiness have become problematic and turned from a marginal matter into a focus of attention in the Safavid focal point? The research method is based on Foucault's discourse analysis approach, which has archaeological and genealogical dimensions. Therefore, in the Foucaultian way, by digging the history of Safavid era, we started to "accumulate propositions" about happiness in decrees, laws, royal rules, letters of repentance, acceptance and refutation Jurisprudence treatise, dedication letters,  deeds of endowment and travelogues, in which matters are related to the place of discussion. , the law, jurisprudence or government decrees, or it was manifested in the methods of judicial settlement or the structure of administration of affairs. In this way, by showing the changes of existing rationality at the three levels of concepts, attitudes, and knowledge, we explained the problematization of happiness. These changes mainly in the three bases of Sufism, Tarab and jurisprudence and in connection with the subject of salvation led to the accumulation of propositions about happiness

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urban social policy and social exclusion can open a window to narrate the excluding of body and poverty from urban spaces in the city. The mainstream of Sociology does not offer a critical articulation about excluded social groups from the urban live. It usually adopts a pathological approach to the urban poor and a normative and clinical insight about the "body" throughout the moment of constructing the urban spaces. Critical reading, however, focuses on urban social policies that cause social exclusion of citizens, and for this reason, a new formulation of urban problem as well as exclusion from the city would be possible, which at the same time recognizes the moral anger of the excluded, and shows the constructing mechanisms of the criteria of "non- disabled bodies" and how "bodies" are heterogeneous to this norm and the urban poor are also excluded from the urban policy agenda. Therefore, despite the environmental and socio-economic barriers in the city, the excluded from the city become angry and rebellious activists who adopt a kind of devastating/deconstructing hermeneutics toward urban life.
Method of the research is qualitative by gathering data through interview, observation, previous researches, lived experiences of researcher and a novel. Organization of data occurred by sociological reconstructed narrations in the form of “social novels”. And in order to obtain the objectivity of the narratives, the opinions of people involved in similar situations described in the narratives or researchers in this field were taken, and the feedback was also included in the final narratives.
 Finally, the city is built for the privileged classes and non-disabled bodies, and the urban excluded groups, in accordance with the inferior hermeneutic position assigned to them in urban life, generally experience various obstacles through their daily practices and by being in urban spaces, and the city and the achievements of urban life for them, will become more "unattainable" and will creates a moral anger toward the society and leads to adoption of a destructive hermeneutic by them. Results captured that the urban excluded groups, attack the urban life ultimately because of the perceived urban injustices and inequalities therefore they achieve a deconstructing hermeneutic abbot the urban.
 

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Despite some claims about the death of class, It is still an essential issue in sociological studies of the medium range and especially in determining religious preferences in such a way that religious activists tend to religious styles related and appropriate to their socio-economic situation. In other words, people with different socio-economic situations have different religious tastes. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the religious taste of the urban lower class. This research was conducted with a qualitative approach and grounded theory method. The participants in this research are religious activists from the urban lower class in Shahrekord, who were selected through purposeful criterion-based sampling. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with eighteen people of this class. In order to analyze the data, open, central ,and selective coding methods were used, and Guba and Lincoln criteria were used to ensure validity and reliability. The findings show eighteen selected categories in the form of a paradigmatic model with a main category (ritualization of religion), causal conditions (collectivism, traditionalism, fatalism ,and being emotional), contextual conditions (ritual-oriented religious socialization), intervention conditions (low social-economic status), strategies (ritual religiosity, emotional religiosity, mediated religiosity, obligatory religiosity, hereditary religiosity ,and fatalistic religiosity) and consequences (religious reductionism, religious formalism, carnivalization of rituals, maddah-oriented, religious embodiment) is organized. The results show that rituals have a prominent, important ,and influential place in the religious taste of the urban lower class ,and it is not possible to determine this place without understanding the logic of popular religion and understanding the logic of rituals in popular religion.

Abstract This article has been done with a qualitative methodological approach and with the method of narrative analysis. The participant sample is acute religious conversion in Tehran who have been selected by purposive sampling by a snowball method. In this؛ narrative interviews were conducted with 20 of these modifiers؛ 19 of whom provided accurate information about their conversion؛ and the research was saturated with this number. The findings showed that in the set of causes؛ the causes of socio-political؛ social-psychological؛ social-relationship were the most common causes of religious conversion among modifiers. This study showed that the stages of conversion in Tehran are different from what is stated in the theories of the scholars such as Rambo؛ Lofland؛ and Stark. The bottom line is that socio-political instability and insecurity and psychological turmoil are the most important explanatory causes for religious conversion

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The present article aims to study and analyze the advent of new middle class in Iran society via studying different lifestyle indices such as architecture, social relationships, and leisure time in order to clarify new middle class members’ thoughts, values, and worldview in the first Pahlavi era.
To carry out the research in this direction, it was designed to employ historical method and qualitative content analysis focusing on architecture and literature as two salient fields, and analyze different primary and secondary sources such as books, novels, reports, and etc. Based on the findings of research, considering architecture evolution and reviewing selected novels of that time indicate the advent of new middle class and its distinctive lifestyle in the first Pahlavi era. The review and analysis of collected information indicate individualism, nationalism, and modernism as the most crucial categories which illustrate new middle class values and worldview in the first Pahlavi era.
 
 
 

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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.
 

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The second half of 1401 was full of incidents and protests in Iran. Simultaneously with these protests, many sociologists analyzed these events. The present article is a synthesis of their analyzes ( including 40 lectures in the Iranian Sociological Association and a collection of 46 analytical notes) about these protests. In addition of presenting presenting a profile of the most important topics, a summary of the causes, nature and consequences of these protests from the perspective of analysts has been presented. On the other hand, dominant theories have been used, the distance that each analyst has towards the protests and five theoretical approaches (functionalists, correlationists, cultural interpreters, followers of new life movements and those who give importance to relations and social assemblies) were presented from the set of analyses.
 

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 Pan-Turkism has shown itself in two different decades in Iran: first in the Azerbaijan Democratic Party in 1945-1946 and secondly in the Muslim People's Republic Party in 1979. To maintain the social solidarity and national unity of Iran, it is crucial to study the influential factors of Pan-Turkism. To do this, we selected 400 subjects from four Azeri provinces – East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and Zanjan- as our research sample, using the multi-stage clustering sample. The regression analysis demonstrated that the independent variables such as insulting remarks from the press, relative deprivation, foreign mass media, Azeri ethnic elites, forbidding the Turkish Language, and arresting ethnic activists had significant relationships with Pan-Turkism.

Key Words: Azerbaijan, Pan-Turkism, Azeri Turkish elites, relative deprivation, ethnic issues.

Abstract The aim of this study was to explain the pattern of rural to urban conversion with emphasis on the right to rural settlements in the city of Qale Now. To select the research sample population, non-probability sampling methods based on purpose and theoretical sampling have been used. Interviews were conducted until theoretical saturation (20 people). MAXQDA software was used to analyze the data. In this way, those categories that are closely related to each other were placed in a main category. As a result of data coding and compression of 25 concepts in open coding, 5 main categories were obtained in axial coding. Negative consequences of social and identity structure, the most important goals of rural-urban transformation, changes made after urbanization, realization of the right to living space and governing mechanisms in rural-urban transformation are the main and pivotal categories on which the data theory is based.

Abstract In recent years, the body and how it manages the modern consumer society has become one of the major issues in social and cultural studies. The aim of this study was to determine the level of body management and its related factors among youth in Yazd city. Survey method was employed in this study. The statistical population was young people aged 18-35 years old in Yazd, 384 of whom were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. The results showed that there was a significant and positive relationship between body management and social acceptance of the body, sex capital, socio-economic status and gender and a significant and negative relationship between body image and body management. The multiple regression results showed these five variables explained 36.1% of the variance body management, in which the social acceptance of the body has played a maximum role in explaining the body management variable.