Sociology
Abstract
In the early approaches regarding social isolation the focus has been mainly on the transformation in social relations caused by modernity, which increases the potential for isolation. With the formation of the Chicago school, Louise Wirth studies isolation as a style of urban living. With Park’s ...
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In the early approaches regarding social isolation the focus has been mainly on the transformation in social relations caused by modernity, which increases the potential for isolation. With the formation of the Chicago school, Louise Wirth studies isolation as a style of urban living. With Park’s emphasis on the natural areas of cities, and then the neo-Marxist approaches to urban poverty, isolation is defined as a kind of deprivation related to the economic and spatial inequalities in cities. The present research has studied surveys collected from 400 citizens in districts 1 and 3 as developed regions, and in districts 17 and 19 as less developed regions. The findings show that the citizens are suffering from social isolation to a medium extent. This is while the objective dimension of social isolation is more than the medium. The testing of research hypotheses shows that there is a relationship between the level of development in a region and social isolation, so that the less developed a region, the more its inhabitants’ experience of social isolation. Especially, there is a distinct difference regarding the objective dimension of social isolation. Furthermore, there is a relationship between social isolation and the socioeconomic status of people, their age, social trust, and their sense of belonging to the neighborhood and the city.
Mohsen Askari; Hassan Ahmadi; Nasser Barati
Abstract
Despite a vast literature regarding the concept of “Islamic City”, still there is not a clear cohesion in regards to the the utopian and historical approaches of these studies. This important issue has caused the role of the different multifarious and influential factors in shaping the “complex ...
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Despite a vast literature regarding the concept of “Islamic City”, still there is not a clear cohesion in regards to the the utopian and historical approaches of these studies. This important issue has caused the role of the different multifarious and influential factors in shaping the “complex cities of the Islamic period” to be ignored. Reading the content related to the Islamic Iranian city requires a realist and historical understanding of the issue from its different aspects. The approach of the current study is qualitative and it is a historical study. Furthermore, the analytical dimensions of the text entails a “process” understanding of the birth and transformation of the city, rather than a “product-centered” examination of it. The period length of the study covers up until the Safavid period. The findings reveal sixty key fundamental components in this field, and in three layers of “history of Arabs”, “Iran’s culture”, and “the Islamic Iranian civilization”. In isolation, the components do not belong to the specific “religion-culture” of Arabs nor Iranians and are a result of a synergistic relationship. A macro approach to the collection of the components makes possible the understanding of how the external process of emergence and growth of the city could be shaped, and also it makes possible the explanation of the phenomena, events and religious and cultural transformations of the Islamic Iranian society and city in the aforementioned centuries.
Sociology
Maryam Mokhtari; Sirus Ahmadi; Sayed Eslam Yazdanmehr
Abstract
Globalization of culture is one of the aspects of globalization. It is a dynamic process to which more complexity and concision is added every day. The aim of the current study is to examine the effect of the globalization of culture on the national identity of the students of Yasouj University. The ...
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Globalization of culture is one of the aspects of globalization. It is a dynamic process to which more complexity and concision is added every day. The aim of the current study is to examine the effect of the globalization of culture on the national identity of the students of Yasouj University. The method of research was done through conducting a survey, and the sample size of the study was calculated to be 400 female and male students through the Lin formula, and was done with a random stratified sampling method. The questionnaire included researcher-made and normalized questions. Its validity was measured through face validity, and its reliability through Cronbach’s alpha. The findings showed that the national identity of the people studied was relatively strong. Nevertheless, globalization of culture has an effect on it, in a way that from the 5 hypotheses related to the effect of globalization of culture on national identity, 4 were confirmed. Using the regression of a few variables, the most important independent variables affecting national identity were found to be reading non-domestic texts, consumerism, pluralism and gender. The final result is that about 38% of national identity’s variance was derived from the above variables.
Sociology
Yaghoub Ahmadi; Salar Moradi
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In recent years and with the growth of the Internet and online social technologies, many questions have been raised regarding the type, quality and extent of social activities in the world based on social networks. Considering the influence of online social networks on recent elections from the year ...
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In recent years and with the growth of the Internet and online social technologies, many questions have been raised regarding the type, quality and extent of social activities in the world based on social networks. Considering the influence of online social networks on recent elections from the year 2009 until now and its following incidents, the present study aims to evaluate the effect of the social capital present in online networks on the citizenship culture of the citizens of Sanandaj. The method of the study was that of a correlational descriptive research and it employed a survey method. The questionnaire was comprised of Dmitri Williams’ standard questions and a researcher-made questionnaire for citizenship culture which had appropriate validity and reliability and was distributed to 400 respondents with the method of multistage cluster sampling. Findings show a medium of the citizenship culture average, and the focus has more been on civic engagement. From the components of civic engagement, the dimensions of attitude and belief were more regarded by the citizens rather than the components of behavior or action. The inferential results also show that the most important dimension of social capital influencing the citizenship culture is the bridging social capital present in the online space.
Sociology
Hasan Nazari; Seyfollah Seyfollahi; Hasan Saraie
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The present study has been conducted with the aim of offering a sociological examination and explanation of the discourse of political identity in Iran after the revolution. Therefore, the concept of political identity has been the focus of the investigation, and its semantic transformations has first ...
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The present study has been conducted with the aim of offering a sociological examination and explanation of the discourse of political identity in Iran after the revolution. Therefore, the concept of political identity has been the focus of the investigation, and its semantic transformations has first been studied in the macro semantic spectrum of the Islamic Revolution, and then in the two discourses of reformist and conservative parties in the framework of intra and inter-textual analysis according to discourse theory and using critical discourse analysis in six historically important and influential junctures during these years. Subsequently, as a way of extra-textual analysis, the historical, economic, political and cultural context of each period has been examined. Finally, this analysis and explanation have depicted a series of final typologies regarding the topic, mainly being: The desired political identity of the legal positivist liberal subject, the democratic anti-tyranny subject, the religious justice-seeking subject, the revolutionary obligation-centered subject, the populist anti-abuse subject, the moderate, justice-oriented critic subject.
Sociology
Maryam Nahavandi; maryam moghadam
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The primary aim of the present study is to examine and compare work culture in Iran from different aspects. The main question in this investigation is to find factors which have caused a downward trend in work culture in Iran. Using global statistics (from WVS), the effect of factors such as the individual, ...
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The primary aim of the present study is to examine and compare work culture in Iran from different aspects. The main question in this investigation is to find factors which have caused a downward trend in work culture in Iran. Using global statistics (from WVS), the effect of factors such as the individual, family, population, religion, occupation and social capital on the work culture of the countries of Iran, Japan, China, Malaysia and Turkey have been studied. The sample population of each country included an urban and rural, male and female population which were chosen through probability sampling. The factors affecting the dependent variable has been tested through different methods, including, factor analysis of the dependent variable, examination of the effect of the sub-indices of independent variables using linear and logistic regression, measuring the relationship between the five independent variables (population, individual, religion, social capital and type of occupation) and work culture, and path analysis of the variables. From the variables influencing work culture, creativity has had the most effect in all countries. The findings show that compared to that of the other four countries, Iran’s work culture is severely low.
Sociology
Ali Entezari
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The current study comprises the survey of comments and evaluations from students regarding the gender segregation plan which was done as a part of a comprehensive research about this topic. In the conceptual and theoretical framework of the research based on the works of Erving Goffman, Sandra Bem and ...
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The current study comprises the survey of comments and evaluations from students regarding the gender segregation plan which was done as a part of a comprehensive research about this topic. In the conceptual and theoretical framework of the research based on the works of Erving Goffman, Sandra Bem and others, and through criticizing the works, this study aims to examine gender segregation with an impartial approach. The statistical population of the research included students from Allameh Tabataba’i University, University of Tehran, and an all-female women’s university, from which 1350 students were chosen through a randomized and quota sampling based on gender, education, university and faculty. The results show that the majority of the students from Allameh Tabataba’i University and University of Tehran who were the most important recipient of this plan were resistant towards it. Only 13.7 percent of Allameh Tabataba’i students and about 13 percent of University of Tehran students has a positive attitude towards gender segregation in universities. This percentage reaches 31 percent in the all-female women’s university. 57.4 percent of Allameh Tabataba’i students have demanded for the plan to be terminated, and 59.1 percent of the students of University of Tehran are against the implementation of this plan at their university.
