Yaghoob Ahmadi; Azad Namaki
Faramarz Sohrabi; Yoosef Karimi
mehrabaan paarsaa mehr
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of aspects of social trust and social participation in citizens of Yazd. A survey method was used for data collection. The questionnaire used in this study is both reliable and valid, and the sample consisted of 316 citizens. Result of the data ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of aspects of social trust and social participation in citizens of Yazd. A survey method was used for data collection. The questionnaire used in this study is both reliable and valid, and the sample consisted of 316 citizens. Result of the data analysis showed that the interpersonal and generalized aspects of social trust were unsatisfactory and that social participation was unsatisfactory in its concrete aspect but it was more satisfactory in the mental aspect. Also, Pearson's correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant relationship between social trust and social participation. Results of MANOVA test revealed that there was a significant relationship between interpersonal and generalized aspects of trust and the concrete and mental aspects of social participation.
Taraneh Borbor
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Taraneh Borbor Date of Receive: 2013/11/11 Date of Accept: 2014/3/11Abstract The sense of displacement and exile which is the result of forced or voluntary dispersal of people from their homeland is an important issue in the lives of diaspora. ...
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Taraneh Borbor Date of Receive: 2013/11/11 Date of Accept: 2014/3/11Abstract The sense of displacement and exile which is the result of forced or voluntary dispersal of people from their homeland is an important issue in the lives of diaspora. A wide range of scholars of different disciplines in humanities attempt to answer how diaspora who are evicted from their homeland as a result of war, colonization, or socio-political upheavals, can overcome their sense of exile and develop a balanced relationship with the environment, culture and language of their home and host societies. This article is a study of the two main approaches to the issue. The first approach is poststructuralist and advocates acceptance and appreciation of “unhomeliness” and “hybridity” in the age globalization. The second approach, which is advocated by scholars of Marxism and Postcolonial studies, insists on resistance to social inequality and reinforces the idea of “habitation” and insistence on belonging. While discussing the two approaches and their limits in relation to recent case and experimental researches, this article argues that any intellectual solution for a move towards emplacement would be valid only if it addresses and shows awareness of what Edward Said calls “situational complexity”, meaning the historical, cultural and geographical complexity of a particular case. Given the complexity and variety of different groups of diaspora and their needs, it is their right of return to their homeland and the right of freedom of religious, social and cultural activities in the host country that determine and prioritise the strategies of emplacement.
Ali Saei; Fatemeh Tashvigh; Mohammad Rezaee
sohila alirezanejad
Volume 22, Issue 70 , March 2015, , Pages 313-368
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The present article is a study of out-group relations of the Armenians in Iranian society. The main question is that what the role of collective memory is in the Armenians identity system and what effects it has on their out-group relations. In this study, the existing literature in the field of memory ...
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The present article is a study of out-group relations of the Armenians in Iranian society. The main question is that what the role of collective memory is in the Armenians identity system and what effects it has on their out-group relations. In this study, the existing literature in the field of memory studies and the new theory of nationalism are referred together to explain the problem. The main argument is that the power of collective memory of Armenians which comes from their diasporic life, has affected their nationalist identification. This has brought about a tension in relations among the Armenians in Iran and out-group and led them to an introverted and isolated/ closed social life. In this study, in-depth research and anthropological methods are used to collect and analyze the data.Key Words: Armenians(In Iran), Armenianness, Diaspora, Collective (Historical), memory, memory politics, Narration making, Outgroup relationship. main categories: 1- the colonization of everyday life in urban public spaces; 2- the creation and reshaping of symbolic spaces through flanerie; 3-the differentiation/ dedifferentiation of everyday life through flanerie; 4- the carnivalization of everyday life; and 5- flanerie as an urban subculture. The main finding is that flanerie is a social practice oriented to resist the dominant and formal cultural discourse.
Anthropology
Hesam ZandHesami; kaveh farhadi
Abstract
In this paper, it has been attempted to investigate the state of the future thinking in the field of water and the warnings made by various scholars in this regard as to why it was happened, despite the slight warnings relative to the elite population, but very vital in terms of importance, intellectual ...
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In this paper, it has been attempted to investigate the state of the future thinking in the field of water and the warnings made by various scholars in this regard as to why it was happened, despite the slight warnings relative to the elite population, but very vital in terms of importance, intellectual for operation There was not any comment on this area and did not succeed in bringing it to a conclusion. The importance of this issue is that it is no longer possible, by relying on current methods in similar countries in our country that faces a water crisis, to shape the future of the water and bring to the new and innovative paradigm, followed by fundamental changes, in line with the conditions and characteristics. Social, economic, and cultural needs would be needed. Otherwise and with ongoing current water management, water shortages will be driven from crisis to disasterIn order to prevent such crises, we need to have a serious rethink in the country's future thinking system, so as to be able to fix it and manage it before disaster. So, in this article, we try to explain why it would be happened with emphasizing on ..
Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Khoei
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The notion of ‘Discourse’ is among key concepts which have been used widely by scholars in social sciences research. Discourse analysis contains many forms which all are influenced by Michel Foucault’s theoretical considerations. One of the main approaches in discourse analysis is the ...
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The notion of ‘Discourse’ is among key concepts which have been used widely by scholars in social sciences research. Discourse analysis contains many forms which all are influenced by Michel Foucault’s theoretical considerations. One of the main approaches in discourse analysis is the Post-Structural one. Lacalu and Moufe, have formed one of the most important approaches to discourse analysis under post-structuralism. The most common criticism of their approach is that it is not methodological. In this paper, it has been tried to elaborate the methods of producing texts which demonstrate the identity of those surveyed in a post-structural discourse analysis. The main aim of this article is to argue that the post-structural discourse analysis contains both theory and method within. To do so, linkages among the theoretical concepts have been stablished to elaborate how we can use abstract notions of ‘Discourse Theory’ in order to present concrete contextual analysis. It also has been elaborated that the consequence of such analysis is a demonstration of the possibility of social changes. The current paper is a description of the methods that are most proper to reach people surveyed.
Mohammad Ebrahim Movahedi; Mohammadhossein Panahi; Mohammadreza Tahmak
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Mohammad Ebrahim Movahedi Mohammad Hossein Panahi Mohammadreza Tahmak Date of Receive: 2014/3/7Date of Accept: 2014/6/10Abstractchanges of Local and regional governance institution in Iran, associated with socio-political conditions of the society, is a topic that have not been attended yet in historical ...
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Mohammad Ebrahim Movahedi Mohammad Hossein Panahi Mohammadreza Tahmak Date of Receive: 2014/3/7Date of Accept: 2014/6/10Abstractchanges of Local and regional governance institution in Iran, associated with socio-political conditions of the society, is a topic that have not been attended yet in historical researches. This research has investigated the above-mentioned topic in Bikhejat of Fars with singularity approach to the historical reality, by a mixed method of grounded theory and oral history. The findings show that changes in local and regional governance institution and public socio-political conditions in Bikhejat, on the one hand, has been affected by macro socio-political conditions of the country, and on the other hand, by special socio-political conditions of the region. This is debated in two dispersed patterns: non-centralized sovereignty (from the onset of Qajar to about 1934, and from August 1941 to 1948) and centralized sovereignty (modern state) (from about Solar 1934 to August 1941, and from 1948 to now). The main rapture point is the establishment of a totalitarian modern state in Iran, when local governments are abolished and dissolved; from thenon the changes in local governance follows the formation of the modern state. Moreover, the findings reveal that there is a difference between the history of conformation of non-centralized (federal) sovereignty and modern state in Bikhejat and Tehran; i.e. it is necessary to take into consideration the historical times and multiple temporalities of realities in theorizing state in Iran.
Volume 6, Issue 10 , August 1998, , Pages 163-198
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The main objective of this article is to investigate critically the scientific mainstreams of anthropology and its aftermaths in Iran. Three major branches of anthropology of Iran are as following: 1- Islamic-Iranian anthropology 2- Academic anthropology 3- Informal anthropology These three branches ...
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The main objective of this article is to investigate critically the scientific mainstreams of anthropology and its aftermaths in Iran. Three major branches of anthropology of Iran are as following: 1- Islamic-Iranian anthropology 2- Academic anthropology 3- Informal anthropology These three branches have been divided into two main courses according to the attitudes of anthropologists to the Iranian culture and society: a) engaged anthropology and b) aimless anthropology. Then the writer has tried to explain the pathoes and criticisms related to the aimless anthropology. Firally, the necessities of our society to consider the anthropology as a science for scientific stwdy of culture has been shown.
siamak zand razavi
Volume 2, Issue 3.4 , May 1993, , Pages 167-213
morteza kotobi
Volume 5, Issue 9 , November 1997, , Pages 169-192
Abstract
Undoubtedly, it can be declared that "participant observation", which is a principal method in ethnology, fragilizes the "objectivity" and "generalization" principles in social researches. Hence, this method is a unique, innovative and powerful method which responds our needs better than any other Western ...
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Undoubtedly, it can be declared that "participant observation", which is a principal method in ethnology, fragilizes the "objectivity" and "generalization" principles in social researches. Hence, this method is a unique, innovative and powerful method which responds our needs better than any other Western methods through collecting information. Participant observation makes it possible for Iranian researchers to apply their traditional verbal interaction called "le recit du caeur" (darcl.e del) seriously and make use of it scientifically. Participant obserbation has two main characteristics: a) suppression the cultural distance between enquirer and infomrmant, and b) deep observation of real and pragmatic behaviors of the statistical society in our culture which enjoys double language and behavior. Familiarity to this method which has been clearly explained in this paper by Helen Cbauchat _ professor of social sciences at Rene Descartes (Sorbonne) University - is an opportunty for Iranian social researchers to adopt and enrich it through adaption it to the population situatioos in Iran.
javad yusefian
Volume 1, Issue 1.2 , February 1992, , Pages 179-204
Mohammad Asadi
Abstract
In the present paper, the theoretical approaches and opinions available in Iran after the Islamic Revolution regarding how religion enters social discussions and topics has been studied and critiqued. In the end, the author has selected one of the existing approaches based on his presumed principles ...
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In the present paper, the theoretical approaches and opinions available in Iran after the Islamic Revolution regarding how religion enters social discussions and topics has been studied and critiqued. In the end, the author has selected one of the existing approaches based on his presumed principles and theoretical framework. The possibility or negation of religion entering the social field, and also how it enters the social field is one of the challenges raised in social sciences and particularly in sociology in Iran. In the current study, different narrations have been presented, all of which are grouped under three types or general approaches regarding the matter. The first approach is the “replacement of sociology with Islamic social thinking”. The second approach is the “negation or dismissal of Islamic social thinking”. The third approach is the “parallelism and exchange between sociology and Islamic social thinking”. With this approach, all of the rudiments and assumptions of sociology are taken into account and the science is not negated or replaced. This approach opens new doors into the science of society, in that non-scientific knowledge also receives an opportunity to enter social discussions and topics. Library studies as well as documentary approach are the method employed by the author. social thinking”. With this approach, all of the rudiments and assumptions of sociology are taken into account and the science is not negated or replaced. However, in addition to that, this approach opens new doors into the science of society, in that non-scientific knowledge also receives an opportunity to enter social discussions and topics. Finally, after analyzing and critiquing the three approaches, the author selects the third approach as it is more compatible with the principles and history of science, and it also gives way to new opportunities.
mahmud nabizadeh
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This paper is writen based on a research carried out at three rural .stricts in a city located on Centeral State of Iran, named Shahzand. Although some Scholorstudied about Juftgave but nobody paid any tention to the Nassaghbandi system. The main Purpose of this paper is to discribe, for the first time, ...
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This paper is writen based on a research carried out at three rural .stricts in a city located on Centeral State of Iran, named Shahzand. Although some Scholorstudied about Juftgave but nobody paid any tention to the Nassaghbandi system. The main Purpose of this paper is to discribe, for the first time, the assaghbandi traditional system which dominated agriculture and rural ereas f Iran, looking at the Juftgave as a tradition! cultivating unit.
ozra jarallahi
Volume 7, Issue 11.12 , March 2001, , Pages 203-223
Abstract
Women have always played important roles in various historical periods in nomadic, rural, and urban communities. Meanwhile, they have been involved in different sectors, such as agriculture, services, and industry. However, the most important managerial occupations, which require fundamental and crucial ...
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Women have always played important roles in various historical periods in nomadic, rural, and urban communities. Meanwhile, they have been involved in different sectors, such as agriculture, services, and industry. However, the most important managerial occupations, which require fundamental and crucial decision-makings in social levels, have been occupied by men rather than women. According to the Constitution of I.R. of Iran (article No. 28) all qualified persons are authorized to occupy various jobs in different managerial levels of the society. But, contrary to the law, this article has not been realized in our Iranian society aptly. As a result, women's roles in home economics and family affairs have been fading. Authorities have come to the conclusion that equalization of men and women in social, cultural, political, and economical decision-makings will lead to realization of democracy, equality, development, and social justice. In this respect, many attempts have been carried out by different national, regional, and international groups and organizations, including "World Conference of Nairubi", and "The Fourth Conference of Women" in Beiging in 1995. But, true realization of quality requires much more effort. It should be noted that the Iranian Women, considering the decision-making power (both in micro and macro levels), enjoy a relatively acceptable status, comparred to those who live in other Islamic developing countries.
mahmud share pour
Volume 8, Issue 13.14 , August 2001, , Pages 204-231
tahereh ghaderi
Volume 4, Issue 7.8 , November 1999, , Pages 218-283
Abstract
This article has presented two contending theoretical perspectives on development, the structuralist and the nee-liberal approach. At different times each approach has exercised a dominant influence over development thinking. Central to the conflict between the two approaches is the role which the state ...
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This article has presented two contending theoretical perspectives on development, the structuralist and the nee-liberal approach. At different times each approach has exercised a dominant influence over development thinking. Central to the conflict between the two approaches is the role which the state should play in economic development. For structuralists an active state is essential for over-coming the problems of economic backwardness. Neo-libcrals put their faith in the market and consider it as the most important factor in the efficient allocation of the resources. The writer, in this article, first explains the changes in the development thinking and then while examining each of the above perspectives, discusses the main clements of their theories and policies. The use of the latest statistical data, till the end of ! 98Us, has also added to the credibility of the article.
mohamad hoseyn panahi
Volume 15, Issue 42.43 , February 2009, , Pages 223-262
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Some revolutions have significant internal political, social, economic and cultural impacts, as well as major regional and international consequences. The Islamic Revolution of Iran, as a major and phenomenal social revolution, has had important internal, regional and international consequences. One ...
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Some revolutions have significant internal political, social, economic and cultural impacts, as well as major regional and international consequences. The Islamic Revolution of Iran, as a major and phenomenal social revolution, has had important internal, regional and international consequences. One of the international outcomes of the Islamic Revolution has been its impact on political and social sciences, especially on theorizing revolutions. In this paper we have focused on the impact of the Islamic Revolution on theories of revolution, in three areas: causes, processes and outcomes of revolutions. Using Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions as our theoretical framework, we hypothesized that: the occurrence of the Islamic Revolution of Iran has had significant theoretical impact on the sociological theories of revolutions. This hypothesis, was broken into three main hypotheses and some sub-hypotheses, and was tested using thematic content analysis. For this purpose, 57 English papers about the Iranian Revolution gathered from international journals were analyzed. The research revealed that the Islamic Revolution of Iran indeed has had significant impact on the theories related to the causes, procesces and outcomes of revolutions
fariba shayegan
Volume 8, Issue 15.16 , February 2002, , Pages 230-263
Abstract
One of the most important discussions in political sociology and in the current Iranian society is the type of relations between religion and state. Review of sociolgical literature shows that there are two groups of theories: The first group argues that religion dominates and controls the state, and ...
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One of the most important discussions in political sociology and in the current Iranian society is the type of relations between religion and state. Review of sociolgical literature shows that there are two groups of theories: The first group argues that religion dominates and controls the state, and the second suggests the reverse. Ali Shari'ati - a contemporary Iranian sociologist - argued that in view of Alavid Shi'a state serves religion and in Safavid Shi'a the case is the reverse. Shari'ati suggested that in Alavid Shi'a, Imam is the ruler of society and in his absense (gheibat of the 12th Imam), religious clerics (ulama) should govern. He, also, identified the "Committed Democracy" as the best islamic govermment
ali asghar kia
Volume 12, Issue 28.29 , May 2005, , Pages 239-271
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This study tries to show a comparative analysis of news and Pseudo News contents of Iran News Agency (IRNA) on related to women during years 1361, 1371 anc.I 1381. In this research, we try to show some of news and non news contents were published in IRNA on relatec.I women activities whom are large elements ...
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This study tries to show a comparative analysis of news and Pseudo News contents of Iran News Agency (IRNA) on related to women during years 1361, 1371 anc.I 1381. In this research, we try to show some of news and non news contents were published in IRNA on relatec.I women activities whom are large elements of Iran society that they are different in view of economy, cultural, social and geographical situations. The theoritical bases of this study have been based on Agenda Setting and Feminism theories. Also are examined the effects of these theories on selecting news and non-news contents on related women which it published in IRNA. Some of the important variables reviewed in this research including: are Subjects of contents, Nature of contents, Purposes and sizes of contents, and Functions of the contents that are published and reflected in IRNA. The method of research has been content analysis and statistical community was included 321 samples that are selected from both news and non news contents published by IRNA News Agency during three periods that are mentioned at the begining of the abstract. The results of this study show that offered varaiabls have seen significant relation with cultural, political and social conditions during three periods. Furthermore, the result of research shows that the quantity of news and non news contents has increased during three periods. In analysis of data descriptive statistics and statistical inference have been used.
Ali Madadnorouzi
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Ali Madad Norozi Date of Receive: 2014/5/1Date of Accept: 2015/1/9Abstract:Villages are homogeneous social, economic and natural units which are mainly active in the agriculture sector. While in other semi agriculture sectors including informal employment there is a possibility of development and removal ...
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Ali Madad Norozi Date of Receive: 2014/5/1Date of Accept: 2015/1/9Abstract:Villages are homogeneous social, economic and natural units which are mainly active in the agriculture sector. While in other semi agriculture sectors including informal employment there is a possibility of development and removal of deprivation from the countryside, rural development with different forgotten dimensions such as economic, social, environmental and economic activities have capacity for village restoration.As a example of economic activity in order to development and bring about rural prosperity can point out to the picking Tragacanth which has a long economic history in the villages of Iran. Unfortunately, this economic activity has been faded away these days.Methodologically this research used researcher’s made questioner, interview with experience working people and observation of pasture lands
Volume 22, Issue 71 , October 2016, , Pages 277-327
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Social Sciences-Journal of Social Sciences
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Social Sciences-Journal of Social Sciences
Seyed Abdolreza Hosseini
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Basing the analyze on the index of water balance and perusing the origins of water scarcity in Iran, leads the research beyond the field of hydrology and ascribed it to the spatial distribution of population alongside the political delimitation. The socio-demographic centralized process of urbanization ...
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Basing the analyze on the index of water balance and perusing the origins of water scarcity in Iran, leads the research beyond the field of hydrology and ascribed it to the spatial distribution of population alongside the political delimitation. The socio-demographic centralized process of urbanization of the last century, particularly in Central Plateau and Salt Lake catchment, caused the unsustainable water balance and inflicted the needs and logic of homo economicus to the natural geography. Not only imposing the Rationale of accumulative-consumptionist life of human beings to that of nature, this process aroused the inequality by growth and spread of concentrated poverty. Alongside, the incompatibility of politico-hydrological delimitation, which has been sedimented through centuries, by imposing the logic of politics (and economics) to nature, disturbing the hydrological order of catchments and transporting water between catchment, problematize sustainability. The topic of sustainability, as a taken-for-granted and unquestionable resolution to the social and environmental crises, in the specific condition of Iran in recent decades, brings about the necessity of analyzing, alongside criticizing the structural and internal contradictions of sustainability per se. Concentrating on water field and applying historical-statistical analyses of water resources management in Iran, the realization of sustainability is here probed.
