Iranian Sociological of AssociationIranian Journal of Sociology1735-190115120130301Phenomenological Study of Committing Suicide in Abdanan, IlamPhenomenological Study of Committing Suicide in Abdanan, Ilam32921083FAO.GhaderzadehK.PiriJournal Article20160805During the recent years, suicide has increased dramatically among the
Abdanani youths. To describing the experience and understanding suicide and
phenomenal world and the consequences of this action is of great importance in
gaining full knowledge of the world-life of the youths. This research is
conducted based on qualitative method and existentialist phenomenology is used
to carry out the field research; the data are analyzed using colaizzi method. The
findings indicate that those who committed suicide have seen it as a facilitation,
breaking with tradition, and escaping reality .Therefore, different feelings and
understandings of suicide have developed among the subjects under study,
ranging from accepting to rejecting suicide. The participants’ experience and
understanding of phenomenal world, implies despair and continuity of
calamities. Suicide has different consequences and effects on the organic body
of those committing it which can be categorized under two main topics:
“fragility of the physical body” and “phenomenal isolation of the body”.
Semantic constructs suggest that those committing suicide are experiencing a
complicated, unsafe and problematic world-life.During the recent years, suicide has increased dramatically among the
Abdanani youths. To describing the experience and understanding suicide and
phenomenal world and the consequences of this action is of great importance in
gaining full knowledge of the world-life of the youths. This research is
conducted based on qualitative method and existentialist phenomenology is used
to carry out the field research; the data are analyzed using colaizzi method. The
findings indicate that those who committed suicide have seen it as a facilitation,
breaking with tradition, and escaping reality .Therefore, different feelings and
understandings of suicide have developed among the subjects under study,
ranging from accepting to rejecting suicide. The participants’ experience and
understanding of phenomenal world, implies despair and continuity of
calamities. Suicide has different consequences and effects on the organic body
of those committing it which can be categorized under two main topics:
“fragility of the physical body” and “phenomenal isolation of the body”.
Semantic constructs suggest that those committing suicide are experiencing a
complicated, unsafe and problematic world-life.http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_21083_b991e1dcd51bcef155428c414a0e056b.pdfIranian Sociological of AssociationIranian Journal of Sociology1735-190115120130301The Study of Cultural Change in Three Generations of aAcademicians
(Case Study: Professors of Social Sciences at Tehran Universities)The Study of Cultural Change in Three Generations of aAcademicians
(Case Study: Professors of Social Sciences at Tehran Universities)306421084FAM. A.Ghanei RadA.MalekiZ.MohammadiJournal Article20160805Science institution and university have their own cultures and like
other phenomena have been changed over time. It seems Iranian academic
culture has changed in recent years. The paper aims to study cultural changes at
university and its consequences.
The research method is qualitative and in order to capture the meaning
domain, Grounded Theory (GT) is used. In this study, we have conducted semistructured
interviews with 34 lectures of social sciences at Tehran universities.
Coding and data extraction is performed with the use of Atlas/ Ti software.
The findings consist of the major categories of social, intervening and
contextual conditions, recruitment, evaluation and promotion of professors,
knowledge organization and professors' strategies. According to the interactions
between conditions and phenomena in terms of cultural transition, descriptive
narration displayed on the core category of "recruitment, evaluation and
promotion" which represents anomy of knowledge production and knowledge
transmission.Science institution and university have their own cultures and like
other phenomena have been changed over time. It seems Iranian academic
culture has changed in recent years. The paper aims to study cultural changes at
university and its consequences.
The research method is qualitative and in order to capture the meaning
domain, Grounded Theory (GT) is used. In this study, we have conducted semistructured
interviews with 34 lectures of social sciences at Tehran universities.
Coding and data extraction is performed with the use of Atlas/ Ti software.
The findings consist of the major categories of social, intervening and
contextual conditions, recruitment, evaluation and promotion of professors,
knowledge organization and professors' strategies. According to the interactions
between conditions and phenomena in terms of cultural transition, descriptive
narration displayed on the core category of "recruitment, evaluation and
promotion" which represents anomy of knowledge production and knowledge
transmission.http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_21084_37e9b839eeb8b2d3c484e37c548dccae.pdfIranian Sociological of AssociationIranian Journal of Sociology1735-190115120130301Gender and Autobiography
Alternative Possibilities for Narrating Feminine ExperiencesGender and Autobiography
Alternative Possibilities for Narrating Feminine Experiences659121085FAM S.ZokaeiK.Tavanay ManafiJournal Article20160805Autobiography genre, in its canonical and conventional sense of the
word, is a sum of acceptable and legitimate methods and trends in narrating
the life story. In other words, this genre foregrounds regulated and specific
forms of constituting the life story, and at the same time, excludes alternative
forms of doing so. Therefore autobiography genre eventually imposes a
normative compulsion on how to constitute a life story; and by doing so, it tries
to distinguish the acceptable methods and forms from the unacceptable ones.
These foregrounding and exclusion have important consequences and
significations if we consider the fact that the conventional and canonical forms
of autobiography only make some sorts of subjectivity possible, and hence
limits other sorts of subjectivity at the same time. In other words, canonical
forms of autobiography insist on constituting certain kinds of life experience,
and therefore impose absence on the other kinds. One of the fields in which
this absence may have decisive significations, is the category of gender, and
more specifically, the category of women's autobiography. That's due to the
fact that the canonical field of autobiography has historically excluded the
women's life writing from the canon, and therefore has become a distinctive
genre only because of this exclusion. In other words, one of the most decisive
exclusions in the process of defining autobiography genre is certainly a genderbased
exclusion. Thus, introducing women's autobiography can be seen as an
act of destabilizing the conventional and canonical genre of autobiography, and
at the same time, it may also lead to some alternative forms and spaces for
constituting the life experience of women. In this article, by focusing on various
students' autobiographies, we've tried to depict and describe these student's
struggles for constituting the feminine life story and experience; a struggle
which is, more than anything else, carried out by resisting, as well as departing
from, the canonical forms of autobiography.Autobiography genre, in its canonical and conventional sense of the
word, is a sum of acceptable and legitimate methods and trends in narrating
the life story. In other words, this genre foregrounds regulated and specific
forms of constituting the life story, and at the same time, excludes alternative
forms of doing so. Therefore autobiography genre eventually imposes a
normative compulsion on how to constitute a life story; and by doing so, it tries
to distinguish the acceptable methods and forms from the unacceptable ones.
These foregrounding and exclusion have important consequences and
significations if we consider the fact that the conventional and canonical forms
of autobiography only make some sorts of subjectivity possible, and hence
limits other sorts of subjectivity at the same time. In other words, canonical
forms of autobiography insist on constituting certain kinds of life experience,
and therefore impose absence on the other kinds. One of the fields in which
this absence may have decisive significations, is the category of gender, and
more specifically, the category of women's autobiography. That's due to the
fact that the canonical field of autobiography has historically excluded the
women's life writing from the canon, and therefore has become a distinctive
genre only because of this exclusion. In other words, one of the most decisive
exclusions in the process of defining autobiography genre is certainly a genderbased
exclusion. Thus, introducing women's autobiography can be seen as an
act of destabilizing the conventional and canonical genre of autobiography, and
at the same time, it may also lead to some alternative forms and spaces for
constituting the life experience of women. In this article, by focusing on various
students' autobiographies, we've tried to depict and describe these student's
struggles for constituting the feminine life story and experience; a struggle
which is, more than anything else, carried out by resisting, as well as departing
from, the canonical forms of autobiography.http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_21085_6060d12ec4413d29a17e7584783c23be.pdfIranian Sociological of AssociationIranian Journal of Sociology1735-190115120130301From the Simultaneous Emergence of the Public Sphere in Iran and
West to Social-Political Barriers of its Development in IranFrom the Simultaneous Emergence of the Public Sphere in Iran and
West to Social-Political Barriers of its Development in Iran9211521086FAM.NajafzadehJournal Article20160805By reviewing the normative studies of the formation of the public
sphere from a historical perspective, this paper represents the hypothesis that the
public sphere emerged in Iran and in the West at the same time, particularly in
Britain. But unlike the West in which the public sphere resisted the
governmental pressure and developed every day, in Iran power networks were
the main obstacles facing the development of the public sphere, especially in
Safavid dynasty era. Therefore, the expansion of the social expressions of
religion led to the circumstances in which the public sphere was dominated by
religion. With the rise of religious authority, public institutions (like
coffeehouses which were the seeds of the public sphere) were destroyed and
replaced by religious institutions and rituals. Later on in Qajar dynasty era, the
government destroyed the remnants of the public sphere. So unlike the West, in
Iran public institutions could not resist the governmental power and censorship.
Ignoring such historical backgrounds have led to studies in this area which
are based on normative and prescriptive approaches, thinking that obstacles in
the way of emerging public sphere are to be found in political structure and
believing it to be a right to demand it from government and political structures.
While in the West it was the other way around: democracy was born out of the
public sphere. The author has extracted the signs of simultaneous emergence of
public sphere in West and Iran and the backgrounds of changes in public sphere
content towards religious rituals, based on the analysis of European travelogues
in two periods. The final analysis of this paper is that the weakness of public
sphere in Iran has a social content.By reviewing the normative studies of the formation of the public
sphere from a historical perspective, this paper represents the hypothesis that the
public sphere emerged in Iran and in the West at the same time, particularly in
Britain. But unlike the West in which the public sphere resisted the
governmental pressure and developed every day, in Iran power networks were
the main obstacles facing the development of the public sphere, especially in
Safavid dynasty era. Therefore, the expansion of the social expressions of
religion led to the circumstances in which the public sphere was dominated by
religion. With the rise of religious authority, public institutions (like
coffeehouses which were the seeds of the public sphere) were destroyed and
replaced by religious institutions and rituals. Later on in Qajar dynasty era, the
government destroyed the remnants of the public sphere. So unlike the West, in
Iran public institutions could not resist the governmental power and censorship.
Ignoring such historical backgrounds have led to studies in this area which
are based on normative and prescriptive approaches, thinking that obstacles in
the way of emerging public sphere are to be found in political structure and
believing it to be a right to demand it from government and political structures.
While in the West it was the other way around: democracy was born out of the
public sphere. The author has extracted the signs of simultaneous emergence of
public sphere in West and Iran and the backgrounds of changes in public sphere
content towards religious rituals, based on the analysis of European travelogues
in two periods. The final analysis of this paper is that the weakness of public
sphere in Iran has a social content.http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_21086_da3b06fe1b65ab19e14819bea1195afd.pdfIranian Sociological of AssociationIranian Journal of Sociology1735-190115120130301Ciender and Right to the City:
A Test of Lefebvre’s TheoryCiender and Right to the City:
A Test of Lefebvre’s Theory11614121087FAL.RahbariM.SharepourJournal Article20160805This article aims at testing Henry Lefebvre's theory of right to the city
in Tehran. By adopting a quantitative approach, implications and relevance of
the framework and the concepts, as well as the possibility of adding gender as an
effective independent variable to the framework will be investigated. The results
from a sample of 168 men and women in all 22 municipalities of Tehran indicate
that the theory is substantially relevant in Iranian society with a single exception
of the concept of production of space. This could be a consequence of culturalpolitical
differences in the concept of right and citizenship in different social
contexts. Logistic regression analysis also shows that there are gender based
differences in the realization of right to the city in Tehran. Women's enjoy less
participation and appropriation in the city and gender plays an important role
along with class in realization of right to the city.This article aims at testing Henry Lefebvre's theory of right to the city
in Tehran. By adopting a quantitative approach, implications and relevance of
the framework and the concepts, as well as the possibility of adding gender as an
effective independent variable to the framework will be investigated. The results
from a sample of 168 men and women in all 22 municipalities of Tehran indicate
that the theory is substantially relevant in Iranian society with a single exception
of the concept of production of space. This could be a consequence of culturalpolitical
differences in the concept of right and citizenship in different social
contexts. Logistic regression analysis also shows that there are gender based
differences in the realization of right to the city in Tehran. Women's enjoy less
participation and appropriation in the city and gender plays an important role
along with class in realization of right to the city.http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_21087_794b7ff3de411a7bb686761ca410038c.pdfIranian Sociological of AssociationIranian Journal of Sociology1735-190115120130301Kurds’ Collective Memory and its Relation with the System of Identity
(Case Study of Boukan City)Kurds’ Collective Memory and its Relation with the System of Identity
(Case Study of Boukan City)14217221088FAK.KazemiA.MostafapourJournal Article20160805This study examines the Kurds’ collective memory in Boukan. The
concept of collective memory is a new realm of sociological investigation,
especially among studies of Iran’s social groups. The most important historical
points in collective memory of Kurds and the way they regarded them as
important, is the main problem of this study. We asked three most important
events of Iran s’ history from 9 decades ago. Theoretical framework of study is
Maurice Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory. The respondents’ attitudes
toward their identities in four aspects are independents variables. Using survey
method and upon cluster sampling, the questionnaire has been responded by 342
people. According to the respondents; The Islamic Revolution of 1979, the
Mahabad State of 1945, the Oil Nationalization, the Imposed War and Iran’s
presidential election of 2009, are the prominent events. Kruskal Wallis test
shows significant difference relationships between age and attitude toward
religious identity with first important events; the age and education with second
important events; the education and attitude toward national identity for the third
important events. The main reasons mentioned by respondents to justify
importance of Islamic Revolution is religious one, building a state for Mahabad
State of 1945, the trauma and damage for war, preserving national benefits for
Oil Nationalization Movement and protest for the Iran’s presidential election.This study examines the Kurds’ collective memory in Boukan. The
concept of collective memory is a new realm of sociological investigation,
especially among studies of Iran’s social groups. The most important historical
points in collective memory of Kurds and the way they regarded them as
important, is the main problem of this study. We asked three most important
events of Iran s’ history from 9 decades ago. Theoretical framework of study is
Maurice Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory. The respondents’ attitudes
toward their identities in four aspects are independents variables. Using survey
method and upon cluster sampling, the questionnaire has been responded by 342
people. According to the respondents; The Islamic Revolution of 1979, the
Mahabad State of 1945, the Oil Nationalization, the Imposed War and Iran’s
presidential election of 2009, are the prominent events. Kruskal Wallis test
shows significant difference relationships between age and attitude toward
religious identity with first important events; the age and education with second
important events; the education and attitude toward national identity for the third
important events. The main reasons mentioned by respondents to justify
importance of Islamic Revolution is religious one, building a state for Mahabad
State of 1945, the trauma and damage for war, preserving national benefits for
Oil Nationalization Movement and protest for the Iran’s presidential election.http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_21088_b9cf16c6bc32c1f73bd7a762c6dc43e0.pdfIranian Sociological of AssociationIranian Journal of Sociology1735-190115120130301Cash on view narrators and Tabatabai About
Ibn Khaldun's theory in the contemporary eraCash on view narrators and Tabatabai About
Ibn Khaldun's theory in the contemporary era17318221890FAS.MSaghafiJournal Article20160920http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_21890_f0d15faf5024b8835ceef5548c062f56.pdf