Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract This study investigates the construction of a memory of the Movement of Gilan among the participant's descendants in the movement. The underlying theories are presentism, social cadres of memory, and findings of Schuman, Schwartz, Arcy, Larson, and Lizardo. The research population is the descendants whose ancestors participated in the Jungle Movement. A sample of 26 people was selected and interviewed. Then the interviews were analyzed by thematic content analysis. Findings indicated the ethnicization of memory and otherization in narrating the event among Gilak ethnicity. Gilaks had united and ethnic narration but on the contrary,Talyshis had pluralistic and non-ethnic narration. The narration of the Jungle Movement was different according to the education levels of the correspondents. It means that people with higher education at a “national-international”  level had a comprehensive and historical approach and people with a basic education at the “ethnic-indigenous” level had a religious approach in narrating the event. The former emphasized intellectual and modernist essence and the latter emphasized the religious essence of the event. They remembered the event in the framework of resistant collective memory and formal collective memory policy respectively.

Abstract Borders are the product of history, politics, and power, and border life has its own economy and culture. Accordingly, one of the most important features of the Kurdish regions, which has been represented in various ways in the media in recent years more than other aspects of border life, is the border and informal economy and specific concepts related to it, namely Kulbar, border bazaar, and smuggling. Understanding this type of economy as a phenomenon requires a careful study of the causes, contexts, and mechanisms that have led to the phenomenon of informal economy in a kind of multifaceted synergy. In this study, among the above factors, the focus is on the contexts that underlie the informal economy. The research method was critical ethnography, the method of collecting information was a combination of methods (interview, conversation, focus group, and documents) and the study context was Baneh border market. Findings showed that the outcome of the conflict of political forces and the border position of Baneh has been a kind of trade and border economy throughout history that after the rise of the modern government, became informal and underwent special changes with regional and global developments. At the same time, the most important contexts of this type of economy can be abstracted into four main categories: environmental problems, resource constraints, cultural affinity, and moderate religious tradition. Finally, based on the findings of the present study, negative and positive solutions are presented.
 

Abstract The main goal of this article is to study how Iranian society crossed from the millennium utopian ideas towards liberal utopian ideas. The ideas which helped form the sociology of the Constitutional Revolution. To this end, we reviewed four types of Karl Mannheim's ideals, which are about the formation of a new utopia from the late middle ages to the new and modern era. The research data was obtained from the Iranian’s itineraries from their trips to the European countries. The results were analyzed using the phenomenology approach. They indicate that the Qajarid’s itineraries to Europe have the elements of a new and liberal utopia and played a role opposed ideologically to that era’s social structures. Such ideas and works could lay a foundation for the new utopia by laying aside the Babieh millennium utopia and introducing the European utopia to the Iranian society. The utopia was based on a new understanding of Iranian society from the progress and development concepts and prepared their sociological and insightful minds for the formation of the Constitutional era.

Abstract This article deals with the relationship between man and nature in the thought and poetry of Sohrab Sepehri and Mehdi Akhavan Sales. Two books, "The Sound of Water Feet" and "Green Volume" by Sepehri, and three books, "Winter", "The End of Shahnameh" and "From this Avesta" by Akhavan Sales, have been analyzed in this article. This article uses the views of some Romantic theorists, especially Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The approach of this interdisciplinary research and its method is a qualitative content analysis of a thematic type, which first deals with the method of analogy to find the concepts of theoretical considerations, the most important of which is the order of nature, which is present in Sepehri's poems. Second, the method of induction has extracted concepts and categories that are related to the relationship between human and nature and have not been considered in theoretical considerations. Relying on these two research logics and applying the method of thematic content analysis, two conceptual constructs of "naturalism" and "metamorphosis of human-nature relationships" were obtained, which are common between the poems of Sepehri's and  Akhavan Sales, but each has its own perception of these concepts.  The distinguishing feature of Sepehri's poems, in this case, is the attention to all-natural elements and having no superiority over each other,  and in Akhavan the main attention is on, "the coexistence of human and nature." Moreover, the kind of confrontation between Sepehri and  Akhavan Sales with nature is in contradiction with their time and in opposition to the dominant discourse and the idea of progress that dominates it.

Abstract The Al-Buyids state has a special place in the social history of Iran due to its adherence to Shiism and its tolerant view of other religions. The main question of the present article was, "What theoretical logic does the historical model of the relationship between religion and state in Iran of the Al-Buyids era follow?" To this end, we used the case study method and the documentary data collection method to match the model based on historical experience with designed theoretical models that include the six aspects of caesaropapism, papacaesarism, hierocracy, erastianism, secularism, and laicitism. By analyzing the real examples of each of the theoretical models during the reign of the rulers of Al-Buyids, three periods of invasion, balance, and defense were inferred. The period of invasion saw the establishment of the model of  erastianism, the period of balance witnessed the stabilization of the model of erastianism and the period of defense saw a transition from the model of erastianism to the model of hierocracy.

Abstract The complex and vague relationship between the type of occupation and election participation has received little attention in Iran. This article attempted to investigate the relationship between the two variables in the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Presidential Elections using the comparative research method. The research findings showed that the election periods, as independent variables, have significant impacts on election participation, so we cannot create an index for all of the election periods.
In the Tenth and Eleventh election periods, the rates of election participation among businesses were lower than the private sector. Furthermore, the participation rate is low among the following occupation: service personnel and sellers, technicians and assistants, specialists, and workers.