The present article deals with the changes of political development discourse in the contemporary history of Iran from the triumph of the Constitutional Revolution (1906) up to the end of the second decade of the Islamic Revolution (1998). Findings of a qualiltative research. based on the analytical ...
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The present article deals with the changes of political development discourse in the contemporary history of Iran from the triumph of the Constitutional Revolution (1906) up to the end of the second decade of the Islamic Revolution (1998). Findings of a qualiltative research. based on the analytical discourse and conducted by using the combined pattern of Norman Fairclough and Teun A. van Dijk, forms the basis of analysis in the present article. The research goes through the editorials of the newspapers which represented the ruling discourse during eight historical junctures (1906, 1933, 1941, 1952, 1973, 1979, 1992, and 1998). The article will show that indicators of political developments such as freedom, legalism, civil society, pluralism, competition, and political participation in the first juncture, i.e. 1906, stand and efficacy of the struggles of the Iranian nation to get rid of the historical tyranny. This indicator drops severely in 1933 when the autocratic rule of Reza Shah is on the verge of creation. ln 19-n, the curve begins to ascend once again under the impression of political and social developments, lack of authority and control eht gniyfidom sdrawot gnik gnuoy eht fo ycnednet .tnemnrevog lartnec eht fo people's image of the tyrannous and autocratic rule of Reza Shah, and eruption of some political anarchy; however, it stands at a lower position as
Research tools are not neutral. They are based on a theory, a philosophical anthropology, and a conception of social order. The research methods adopted represent the nature of research subject. Theory and method are inseparable. Qualitative approach to social research implies that what appears to be ...
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Research tools are not neutral. They are based on a theory, a philosophical anthropology, and a conception of social order. The research methods adopted represent the nature of research subject. Theory and method are inseparable. Qualitative approach to social research implies that what appears to be external and objective, is in fact socially constructed. Rather than considering objective social structures as the standard basis for social interpretation, a qualitative approach emphasizes the role played by human action. Grounded theory as a kind of qualitative research aims for discovering theory from empirical data and is based on empirical induction. The main elements of grounded theory in elude concepts, categories, and statements. Theoretical sampling and category comparison are the methodological bases on which grounded theory is established. The oretical sampling allows researcher to simultaneously collect, code and analyze his/her data. This all, while demanding researchers' self-consciousness and self• criticism, provides qualitative research with more flexibility in adopting new ideas and in the research process per se.
ln this article, in discussing the situation of medias and local cultures in globalization epoch, the writer tries to answer the following question: Does globalization make crisis in cultural identity and destroy local cultures in global culture? To answer this question, different viewpoints from a unmber ...
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ln this article, in discussing the situation of medias and local cultures in globalization epoch, the writer tries to answer the following question: Does globalization make crisis in cultural identity and destroy local cultures in global culture? To answer this question, different viewpoints from a unmber of scientists and theoreticians are studied and analyzed by the writer. Then, he introduces the most important schools and concepts regarding to globalization, in - eluding: realism school, internationalization, regionalization, cultural identity, global culture, media globalization. global village, and cultural imperialism. At the end of the article, the hypothesis has been accepted that globalization not only does not destroy local cultures but also refines them.
This research has been performed from the sociological point of view to inspect calling, naming and changing the names of some streets and pubic places, intending to clarify why some of the names which were selected after Islamic Revolution became so popular among the people and some others didn't. In ...
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This research has been performed from the sociological point of view to inspect calling, naming and changing the names of some streets and pubic places, intending to clarify why some of the names which were selected after Islamic Revolution became so popular among the people and some others didn't. In Iran , in the most cities, the names were changed; but mostly after a few years they were forgotten. ls there any political motivation for the new names not being used (they were selected after Islamic Revolution), or there are other factors that caused the using of the previous names to become current. This research was done in 2001. After performing all feild studies and studying the map of the city, data were gathered through question sheets. The statistical society of the research (Universe) was Qom and also sample size were four hundred persons. According to the dissimilation culture in different areas of the city, the samples were chosen randomly. The result of the research indicates that after Islamic Rcvolation only the names of the places that their previous names were related to one of the relatives of Shah family have been changed; that is to say, they had negative
This article tries to analyze Iran-Iraq war according to Parsons's subsystems framework. The main focus is on determination of negative and positive social functions of the war. Findings show that the war at first influenced behavioural organism. so that this part of society couldn't achieve its functions.Then, ...
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This article tries to analyze Iran-Iraq war according to Parsons's subsystems framework. The main focus is on determination of negative and positive social functions of the war. Findings show that the war at first influenced behavioural organism. so that this part of society couldn't achieve its functions.Then, the produced problems transfered to personality subsystem. The war caused that most of the first five-year development plan goals didn't achieve. Social subsystem in accordance with special considerations of war time passed some laws and regulations in order to keep unity and integration of society. Cultural subsystem also spred various kinds of values in society during different phases of war and issued respective orders for other subsystems. These two last subsystems also lost their efficiency at the end of the war.
