http://www.jsi-isa.ir/ Iranian Journal of Sociology en daily 1 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0330 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0330 http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_737320.html This study examines the positive and negative consequences of the migration of specialists in three fields—technical and engineering, healthcare, and the humanities—across three specific organizations in the city of Mashhad. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings indicate that the migration of specialists has led to decreased productivity and effectiveness, increased labor replacement costs, disruptions in knowledge transfer, reduced job satisfaction, and a growing desire to migrate among the remaining workforce. In addition, the perception of migration as a marker of success, declining organizational commitment, and the emergence of unstable work relations represent key cultural and institutional consequences of this phenomenon. However, in some cases, organizations have developed a degree of resilience by improving documentation practices and knowledge transfer systems. Overall, the results highlight the need to reassess human resource policies and strengthen intra-organizational capacities to address the consequences of migration. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_737321.html This research examines the role of social organization among rural migrants in the city and its impact on local development, focusing on the perspectives of Portes and Boomsma within the Tehran-Vila neighborhood in Tehran's District Two. The study employed a qualitative approach with a grounded theory strategy. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and narratives from 40 individuals (comprising three generations of migrants, including 13 women and 27 men) in Tehran-Vila (destination) and Bidok Yazd (origin), along with insights from 6 key informants, focus group sessions, field observations, and analysis of secondary statistical data. The resulting analysis identified the core category as "Migrant Social Organizations as Facilitators of Local Development." The findings indicate that the social organizations of rural migrants have acted as democratic institutions; by creating support networks and strengthening a sense of belonging to the neighborhood, they have contributed to improving the quality of life, enhancing social solidarity, and facilitating residents' participation in local development processes. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_728507.html This articl aims to examine and analyze, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools by Iranian journalists, and to identify the factors influencing this usage based on the extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model. As one of the most comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and validated models for investigating the acceptance of emerging technologies, UTAUT2 was deemed appropriate for analyzing journalists' adoption of AI tools due to its consideration of a wide range of individual and social factors.The research employs a survey methodology, with data collected via a modified standard questionnaire. The statistical population consists of journalists working in news agencies based in Tehran, from which a random sample of 200 individuals was selected using simple random sampling.The findings reveal that journalists' familiarity with and use of AI tools are relatively low. Various factors—including performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and price/value (the study variables)—have a significant impact on behavioral intention and actual use of these technologies.The results suggest that although Iranian journalists generally hold a positive attitude toward using AI tools, their actual usage remains limited. This indicates a gap between the potential and the real-world application of artificial intelligence in Iran’s media industry. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_737322.html The present study was conducted to identify students' social demands and how they are formed, using a qualitative network analysis approach. To collect information, semi-structured interviews were conducted with (24) girl and boy students in the second year of high school in Kermanshah City. Participants were selected from schools (three educational districts) using purposive sampling. According to the research findings, students' social demands have been extracted into four overarching themes: " rotating traditional paradigms ", "balance of rights/responsibilities", "opportunity to be seen", and "liberation from the image of an accepting student", and are coherent with the final theme of "life with the joy of this world". Data analysis showed that adolescents' social demands do not form in a vacuum; rather, they examine and compare opinions by establishing connections and exchanging opinions with actors in their situational and preferred networks. During the exchange of ideas with network members, they learn about new ideas that cause them to rethink their mental interpretations of the meanings of demands. This leads to the formation of new desires in them. Although the range of relationship density in situational networks is greater than in preferential networks, due to the internal content of preferential networks (Extensiveness of relationships, diversity of topics, intimacy and belonging in selected relationships) The impact of opinions on these networks is deeper. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_737323.html This study explores the portrayal of women in 1990s newspapers through the lens of social semiotics. This study aims to explore how female subjects are turned into passive subjects through stereotypes, cultural codes, and semiotic mechanisms. To achieve this, nine images were purposefully chosen and examined across three levels which are as follows: representational, interactive, and compositional. At the representational level, the images portray women as social victims, ideological subjects, or as being tied to power discourses. At the interactive level, the viewing angle, distances and missing gazes highlight the passivity and detachment of women from the social environment. Moreover, at the compositional level, the application of colors, layout, the inclusion or emphasis on certain elements, and lighting highlight the social and cultural restrictions imposed on women. The findings of the study reveal that the portrayal of women in this era was predominantly shaped by patriarchal, masculine and ideological discourses, which transformed female subjects into passive subjects. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_737324.html The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of organizational culture and organizational health on the social responsibility of the employees of Fajr Energy Gulf Company. The method of this research is a quantitative survey. The statistical population of this research includes all the employees working in Fajr Energy Company of the Persian Gulf, numbering 1337 , and 298 people were selected as a statistical sample based on Cochran's formula and by simple random sampling. the results of this research showed that there is a significant relationship between organizational health variables and organizational culture with social responsibility. The results of the regression analysis showed that 24% of the variables of the research problem are explained by the variables included in the model, i.e. organizational culture and organizational health. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_737375.html Rites of passage consist of three stages: the beginning, the middle, and the end. These rites involve the roles of a mentor and spectators, and the inability to complete them leads to frustration and social stigma. There is no return to the previous stage in rites of passage. A similar situation can be observed in migration, where a specific decision marks the start of the rite of passage. Individuals go through hard stages like legal and regulatory preparations and soft stages like changing habits and lifestyles. Preparing for migration can be seen as a kind of rite of passage, where the mentors, rituals, and rules gradually become defined and recognized. Entering the rites of migration involves a suspension of life that can be brief or prolonged. Migration without any changes in lifestyle is rare http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_738918.html Focusing on the representation of "the people" in key cinematic works of the second Pahlavi period, this article investigates how the populace was represented in Iranian New Wave cinema during the 1940s and 1950s [the 1340s and 1350s SH decades]. Grounded in the dual theoretical framework of representation/reflection and shaping within the sociology of art, and employing a qualitative content analysis of fifteen landmark films by five defining directors of the Iranian New Wave, the paper examines a wide spectrum of theoretical readings regarding Iranian people's agency through these cinematic representations. Regardless of the breadth of these representations—spanning a continuum from "self-conscious and creative people" to "alienated and passive people"—the study demonstrates that the reflection of the populace in these cinematic works has been constructed primarily around two central identities of class and religion. Most films depict the people as alienated, unawakened, and passive. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_740856.html This study is based on the premise that a problem in contemporary social science research is the inversion of its logical architecture and, consequently, a shift in the roles and relationships among paradigm, problem formulation, theory, and methodology. The theoretical framework draws on the philosophy of science and the philosophy of social science, with emphasis on Kuhn’s concept of paradigm and Lakatos’s notion of the research programme. This study uses documentary research, conceptual analysis, theoretical reconstruction, and critical analysis to formulate the concept of "methodological dominance" and reconstruct the relationship among paradigm, theory, problem formulation, and methodology. Methodological dominance refers to a condition in which methodology moves beyond its subordinate role within research design and becomes a reference point for designing, conducting, and evaluating research. The study argues that the primacy of methodology, and consequently of methods and techniques, weakens sociology’s capacity for problem formulation, conceptualization, and theory building http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_741047.html Abstract Keywords: types of religiosity, ritual religiosity, Sharia-based religiosity, emotional religiosity The dominant aspect of researches of religiosity in the world and Iran has been focused on the measurement of religiosity and also the important issue of secularization. These two areas of study are closely related and both seek to show the status of religion and religiosity in a society. Therefore, it is not possible to find a wide-ranging tradition of research on the topic of religiosity, and this topic has not been pursued except in a random way and according to personal interests. In this article, the author has first tried to provide a local typology of religiosity and then, based on this typology, examine the transformation of religiosity in Iran based on the research done so far. The researcher has concluded that religiosity is transforming towards becoming non-shariah-based, and ritualistic and emotional types of religiosity are increasing. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_741123.html This study explored the political activism of women during the 2022 protests in Iran through a phenomenological approach, based on in-depth interviews with 21 female participants in Tehran. The analysis identified ten key themes: resistance to gendered domination, digital mobilization, diverse civil resistance strategies, protest discourse construction, communicative cohesion, resource mobilization, street-centered activism, rejection of religious authority, familial solidarity in the civic sphere, and emergency support networks. These were integrated into the overarching theme of a “networked movement of resistance,” characterized by the fusion of creative organization and physical presence. The findings reveal that the intersection of digital and on-the-ground activism, tactical creativity, and the use of social capital underpin the continuity and effectiveness of women’s political engagement. This form of activism reflects a shift toward everyday, decentralized action that challenges dominant power structures. Enhancing multilayered support systems can further sustain and empower this evolving mode of collective action. http://www.jsi-isa.ir/article_741124.html The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has exposed Generation Z to risks, yet their representation in Iranian policy documents remains unclear. This study examined patterns of policy coverage of AI-related risks to Generation Z and identified policy gaps. Using a qualitative design, the study applied documentary research and directed qualitative content analysis to nine policy documents adopted or issued between 2020 and 2026. Data were analyzed through deductive and inductive coding and within-document and cross-document comparisons. Findings showed that policy coverage was selective, uneven, largely indirect, and insufficiently differentiated by age. Information-related, security, and privacy risks received greater attention than algorithmic bias, cognitive dependency, mental health, academic integrity, employment transition, youth participation, and mechanisms for appeal and redress. A development-oriented approach predominated over risk-based governance, while Generation Z was not recognized as a distinct policy constituency. The gap concerned translating normative risk recognition into coherent, generation-sensitive, measurable, and accountable policies.