Sociology
Saeedeh Amini; Fatemeh Omidi; Ardeshir Entezari
Abstract
Social protests, as non-institutional forms of political participation, are the undeniable reality of any society. The frequency and proliferation of this fact in history after the Islamic Revolution and its changes and transformations have doubled the need to pay attention to this form of collective ...
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Social protests, as non-institutional forms of political participation, are the undeniable reality of any society. The frequency and proliferation of this fact in history after the Islamic Revolution and its changes and transformations have doubled the need to pay attention to this form of collective action. Within these protests, the protestors have chanted these slogans, which, on the one hand, express their wishes and demands for political and social changes and their ideals for fundamental changes. On the other hand, these slogans are constructs of domestic and foreign media and virtual and real social networks. In this article, using content analysis method and based on the framing theory of Snow and Benford, an attempt has been made to analyze the slogans of the protests of the last three decades based on three interpretive frameworks and the main themes. Slogans are defined in each framework and each period of protests to reveal the thematic changes of slogans over three decades. The results show that in the protests of June 1999, the motivational framework, the protests after the presidential elections of 2009, and the protests of January 2018 and November 2019, the diagnostic framework carried the most weight among the slogans. The results of the analysis of the theme of the slogans also showed that in the protests of June 1999, Libertarian themes; in the protests of 2009, political justice themes, and in the protests of 2018 and 2019, anti-religious themes were the most frequent among other themes.
Rabee Ali; Saeedeh Amini; Ahmad Ghiyasvand
Abstract
Drawing on thinkers such as William Davis, Sarah Ahmad, and Sam Binkley, we have aimed to depict the characteristics of happiness discourse in Iran. So, by using the method of Fairclough discourse analysis, we examined the various issues of Success Magazine over the past thirty years at three levels ...
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Drawing on thinkers such as William Davis, Sarah Ahmad, and Sam Binkley, we have aimed to depict the characteristics of happiness discourse in Iran. So, by using the method of Fairclough discourse analysis, we examined the various issues of Success Magazine over the past thirty years at three levels of description, interpretation, and explanation. At the level of description, we found that frequently used words and concepts such as "happiness", "success", "stress", "peace" and the like are used in positive/negative friendships. Also, metaphors like "secret", "step", "way" and the like are used in these texts, which have a one-sided and preaching structure. At the level of interpretation, we found that in this discourse, man is reduced to mind and energy. The relationship between him and the world is explained through a unique combination of scientific discourses such as psychology and physics with a quasi-religious-mystical approach. At the level of explanation, we found the expansion of the market-based economy, the growth of the middle class, globalization, and consequently the emergence of "self" in its modern meaning as the leading causes for the prevalence of this discourse in Iran.
Sociology
Saeedeh Amini; Mostafa Farzaneh
Abstract
Emotion in the field of sociology has been considered as a social structure, therefore, it can be concluded that social factors play a pivotal role in its development and interpretation. The present study intends to draw attention to the issue of unhappiness as an important emotion from the sociological ...
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Emotion in the field of sociology has been considered as a social structure, therefore, it can be concluded that social factors play a pivotal role in its development and interpretation. The present study intends to draw attention to the issue of unhappiness as an important emotion from the sociological point of view and to examine its social backgrounds among university students. On the basis of theories in the realm of sociology of emotions (Symbolic Interaction, Ritual Interaction, Human Social Exchange, Dramaturgical Theory, Power and Social Base), this survey has been conducted as quantitative research on the sample of 381 students from Allameh Tabataba’i University who were selected through the stratified sampling method. The results showed a significant relationship between unhappiness and the variables of their place of residence and place of education. Therefore, the students who lived in dormitories felt more unhappiness than dwellers whose families were in the city where they studied and the self-supporting students of independent campuses. Furthermore, the relationship between the main independent variables (inability to manage emotions, social rejection, distrust, social unconformity, and feeling powerless) and unhappiness was meaningful. Feeling powerless, inability to manage emotions and social unconformity explained the most variance of unhappiness respectively.
saeedeh Amini
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Abstract Women are one of the most important social forces and interconnected nature of the political and social has made them to engage in politics. In Iran, after the Islamic Revolution, different states have made efforts to solve women's socio-cultural problems. This article seeks to examine ...
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Abstract Women are one of the most important social forces and interconnected nature of the political and social has made them to engage in politics. In Iran, after the Islamic Revolution, different states have made efforts to solve women's socio-cultural problems. This article seeks to examine the social status of women in employment and unemployment, taking governmental administrative position, education, and being head of households from the fifth to the eleventh states in the Islamic Republic of Iran. To achieve this goal, secondary analysis was used and the following results were obtained: The presence of women in governmental administrative position has a rising trend in two decades, but in the basic and middle levels of management. The employment status of women in the 70's was relatively better than the 80's and the unemployment rate for women has been increasing since the 80's. On the other hand the employment and education of women did not rise harmoniously. Education and employment of women was better in the second term of President Khatami and the first term of President Ahmadinejad compared to the periods before and after. Prior to this period, the rate of employment passed education rate, but in the second term of Ahmadinejad until Rouhani's state this has reversed and education has passed employment. In the field of household, the percentage of female-headed households has raised from 7.5 percent in the first state of Hashemi Rafsanjani to 12.9 percent in the administration of Rouhani. During this period the identity of the female-headed households has changed in a way that single and divorced women mainly comprise female-headed households.
