Sociology
Somayeh Rahmani; aboutorab talebi; Mohammadsaeed Zokaei
Abstract
Subjectivity is the reflexive experience of awareness and individual agency in interaction with self and the real, symbolic and institutional others. The purpose of this study is to understand the social and semantic complexities of the Kurdish women subjectivity. This study has been conducted using ...
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Subjectivity is the reflexive experience of awareness and individual agency in interaction with self and the real, symbolic and institutional others. The purpose of this study is to understand the social and semantic complexities of the Kurdish women subjectivity. This study has been conducted using in-depth individual interviews, within the framework of interpretive-constructivist approach and grounded theory method. Based on the findings the subjectivity of Kurdish women can be understood through the experience of suspension as a central phenomenon. This experience was classified under the four concepts of suspension of cognition and agency, suspension of lived experience, conscious suspension of fear, and suspension as a strategy. Normative institutions, regulatory institutions, being in the minority and economic status are among the categories related to background conditions and institutional relations, experience of subjugation, social connections and resources available to the individual are considered as intervening conditions. Protection strategy, resistance strategy and negotiation were recognized as three types of strategies. by showing the complexity of subjectivity in Kurdish women's experiences, this study shows that the subjectivity of Kurdish women is slippery and combined, mixed and multiple, and in the three categories of female subjectivity, passive-unembodied-internal subjectivity vs. Embodied/active and delocalized subjectivity are placed.
Aboutorab Talebi; Morteza Rostami Ghezeldaragh
Abotorab Talebi; Sajad Alizadeh
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The situation of ethnic minorities in Iran in terms of ethnic discrimination and inequality has been the subject of concerns and public debates both inside and outside Iran for decades, but the actual and concrete experiences of the ethnic groups within the modern institutions of Iran has rarely been ...
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The situation of ethnic minorities in Iran in terms of ethnic discrimination and inequality has been the subject of concerns and public debates both inside and outside Iran for decades, but the actual and concrete experiences of the ethnic groups within the modern institutions of Iran has rarely been the subject of empirical studies. The study of lived experiences of the Turks and Kurds within an influential institution like the university can deepen our knowledge of the ethnic functions of modern institutions in Iran. Therefore, using the qualitative and phenomenological approach, this article studies the ethnic lived experiences of the Kurdish and Turkish students focusing on experiences of discrimination and inequality in four universities in Iran. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews conducted with 35 students. Data were analyzed using the thematic analysis technique that resulted in 3 main themes and 8 sub-themes. The findings show that the university experiences for the Kurdish and Turkish students especially for the latter includes significant aspects of the sense of ethnic discrimination and inequality occurring especially around two lines of language and religion.
Sociology
Sedigheh Ramezani; Abutorab Talebi; Bagher TalebiDarabi
Abstract
From the seventies onwards, Iran saw the emergence of New Sprituality and the increase in the tendency towards it, primarily confined to fringe groups which later on spread rapidly among different classes. The present study examines the causes and contexts of this tendency among different groups of citizens ...
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From the seventies onwards, Iran saw the emergence of New Sprituality and the increase in the tendency towards it, primarily confined to fringe groups which later on spread rapidly among different classes. The present study examines the causes and contexts of this tendency among different groups of citizens in Tehran by using the factors mentioned in various theoretical approaches. To achieve this goal, 23 semi-structured interviews were first conducted with New Spiritualists. Then, according to the results of the interviews, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among 600 citizens of Tehran. Sampling was done purposefully in the qualitative section and randomly from the blocks of Tehran in the quantitative section. The interviews were analyzed by the thematic analysis method, and the quantitative data were processed through the SPSS software and various tests such as Pearson correlation and linear regression. The results indicated a significant relationship between five factors and the tendency towards new spirituality. The ethical stress, emotionalism, access to new spirituality, and experiencing suffering had respectively the strongest to the weakest direct relationships and deprivation had a reverse relationship.
aboutorab talebi; mahdi Montazeri Moghadam
Abstract
چکیده: این نوشتار ضمن پذیرش بحرانی بودن وضعیت علوم اجتماعی/جامعه‌شناسیِ ایرانی براساس طرحی نظرورزانه و شناخت‌شناسانه، بحران را در نحوه‌ی مواجه، فهم و خوانش این حوزه‌ی ...
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چکیده: این نوشتار ضمن پذیرش بحرانی بودن وضعیت علوم اجتماعی/جامعه‌شناسیِ ایرانی براساس طرحی نظرورزانه و شناخت‌شناسانه، بحران را در نحوه‌ی مواجه، فهم و خوانش این حوزه‌ی معرفتی تشخیص داده است. به همین سبب در گام نخست، مروری اجمالی بر زمینه‌های متعّین تاریخی، معرفت‌شناسانه و هستی‌شناسانه‌ی شکل‌دهنده‌ی معرفت نوین علوم اجتماعی/جامعه‌شناسی در مغرب‌زمین نموده است.آن‌گاه، تلاش کرده تا نشان دهد فقدان همین زمینه‌های متعّین تاریخی، معرفت‌شناسانه و هستی‌شناسانه‌ی شکل‌دهنده، ایجاد علوم اجتماعی/جامعه شناسی در ایران با دشواری بسیار مواجه کرده است. از این رو، برای اثبات مدعای خود به بررسی نظریات سه تن از اساتید ایرانی (محمد‌علی همایون کاتوزیان، سیدجواد طباطبایی و پرویز پیران) پرداخته‌ایم، تا نشان دهیم که نظریات علوم اجتماعی/جامعه‌شناسی ایرانیِ اکنونی امکان لازم برای شناخت جامعه‌ی ایرانی فراهم نمی‌کند. در این نوشتار برای فهم این مسئله از روش شک دکارتی تبعیت نموده‌ایم که روشی است مبتنی بر عقل سلیم. نتایج و یافته‌های این مطالعه بیانگر آن است که: 1. علوم اجتماعی/جامعه‌شناسی در وضعیت حاضر امکانات معرفتی کافی در اختیار اندیشمندان علوم اجتماعی ایرانی برای شناخت هستیِ اجتماعی‌ایِ‌شان فراهم نمی‌کند. 2. جامعه‌شناس ایرانی نیز در صورت اصرار بر فهم هونی امکان لازم برای شناخت جامعه‌ی ایرانی فراهم نمی‌کند. در این نوشتار برای فهم این مسئله از روش شک دکارتی تبعیت نموده‌ایم که روشی است مبتنی بر عقل سلیم. نتایج و یافته‌های این مطالعه بیانگر آن است که: 1. علوم اجتماعی/جامعه‌شناسی در وضعیت حاضر امکانات معرفتی کافی در اختیار اندیشمندان علوم اجتماعی ایرانی برای شناخت هستیِ اجتماعی‌ایِ‌شان فراهم نمی‌کند. 2. جامعه‌شناس ایرانی نیز در صورت اصرار بر فهم هستی جامعه‌‌اش و نظریه‌سازی در این حوزه
aboutorab talebi
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This paper investigates an aspect of new sectarianism with special emphasis on New Spirituality in Iran. It uses the theory of subjectivism proposed by Canadian thinker, Charles Taylor, alongside Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to analyze signs of new spiritualism. Data was collected through ...
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This paper investigates an aspect of new sectarianism with special emphasis on New Spirituality in Iran. It uses the theory of subjectivism proposed by Canadian thinker, Charles Taylor, alongside Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to analyze signs of new spiritualism. Data was collected through examining available resources and through deep interviews with advocates of this discourse. Examining available resources revealed that the semantic system of spirituality is as a discourse based on a number of themes and signs, including: centrality of the self, i.e. a journey from a life in line with external demands to an authentic, original life in the inside, individualism, holistic attitude, hybridity, and using psychology and individuality. Empirical studies have proven that the formation of new spiritualism as a discourse was an indication of internal conflicts and ambiguities in making sense of religious discourse. This issue was a challenge for the development of religious discourse and a threat to its face as the dominant discourse, which finally opened up the gates for discourse of spirituality. Studies indicate that this discourse is still in the phase of formation in Iran. In other words, it is not yet stable and its meanings are not yet clear, and, therefore, is far from turning into a hegemonic discourse.
