Zeinab Bilaki; Ali Akbar Tajmazinani
Abstract
Social exclusion manifests itself within the educational realm, particularly in the echelons of higher education. The pivotal role of such exclusion lies in impeding individuals' access to rights and opportunities, creating barriers that either thwart their continued participation in the higher ...
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Social exclusion manifests itself within the educational realm, particularly in the echelons of higher education. The pivotal role of such exclusion lies in impeding individuals' access to rights and opportunities, creating barriers that either thwart their continued participation in the higher education system or relegate them to the periphery. This study meticulously investigates educational exclusion within the Iranian higher education system, scrutinizing the processes contributing to the contextual landscape and the root causes of student exclusion. Furthermore, employing Grounded Theory, diverse dimensions of educational exclusion are explored, presenting a thick description. In the present study, semi-structured interviews with students and professionals were conducted to discern the facets of educational exclusion and identify influential factors. The gleaned contexts and rationales for exclusion encompass contexts, multifaceted family dynamics, impediments to effective communication, academic interactions, societal structures, and factors such as financial constraints, disabilities, inadequate educational policies, and the portrayal of higher education policies as agents of educational injustice.
Mahnaz Karami; Maryam Ghazinejad; Mansoure Azam Azadeh
Abstract
Even though it can be argued that inequality, distance, and social exclusion have always existed across societies, one can not ignore reflecting on the reason why and how it is created together with its consequences for today’s various groups and social systems. The aim of this study is to explain ...
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Even though it can be argued that inequality, distance, and social exclusion have always existed across societies, one can not ignore reflecting on the reason why and how it is created together with its consequences for today’s various groups and social systems. The aim of this study is to explain the relationship between religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion by considering the mediating variable of social distance between two groups of Shiite and Sunni students. The statistical sample includes 279 graduate students of the faculties of social sciences in the three universities of Allameh Tabataba’i, Tehran and Beheshti, in which Sunni and Shiite students were chosen through snowball method and random selection, respectively. The findings indicate that the mean values of feelings of social exclusion, social distance and religious identity among Sunni students are higher than Shiite ones. Also, there is a direct relationship between the level of religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion, and the same is true for social distance and the feeling of social exclusion. Multivariate regression analysis reveals that the variables included in the equation have been able to explain a significant part of the variance of the changes related to the dependent variable. The results of path analysis also demonstrate that the variables of religious identity, ethnicity and social distance are related to the feeling of social exclusion.
Sociology
Siavash Gholipoor; Nader Amiri; Sara Korani
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This article seeks to examine the process of stigmatization of the Nukan neighborhood within Kermanshah. The theoretical framework is based on Rob Shields' concepts of "social spatialisation”. Shields considers the process of constructing meaning of a space to be a result of the objective procedures ...
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This article seeks to examine the process of stigmatization of the Nukan neighborhood within Kermanshah. The theoretical framework is based on Rob Shields' concepts of "social spatialisation”. Shields considers the process of constructing meaning of a space to be a result of the objective procedures of everyday life that construct suppositions about meaning and form space-myths through various ways. The research method is ethnography and the data collection technique includes participatory observation and intensive interviews. The findings of the survey indicate that Nukan has topographically isolated geography and that some social borders have intensified this dissociation. Different procedures have a role in labeling Nukan as such. By announcing the image space to be "rural, " the municipality avoids providing any service to the area. By labeling the area as "violent" as well as a "crime hotspot, " the police force avoids interference in quarrels. The Department of Education declares students of schools within Nukan to be "chaotic" and "abnormal." Also, by not providing the essential substructures, they transfer students of certain grades to other regions, which results in even more labeling when students get into quarrels in those regions. On another hand, taxi drivers, shopkeepers, tenants and women gathering in alleys to talk and pass time propagate and sustain such suppositions. In conclusion, in the process of Nukan's stigmatization, not only coarse language and impressions, but also people's behaviors in everyday life play a decisive role.
Soheyla Alirezanejad; mansoreh nikoogoftar
Volume 23, Issue 72 , June 2016, , Pages 149-191
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This article tries to understand Iranian transsexuals re socialization process. transsexuals having been suffered from lack of social acceptance and social recognition based on their bodily features and behaviors as well. they are been struggling a contradiction between their sex and gender identity. ...
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This article tries to understand Iranian transsexuals re socialization process. transsexuals having been suffered from lack of social acceptance and social recognition based on their bodily features and behaviors as well. they are been struggling a contradiction between their sex and gender identity. understanding their situation a mixed method based on ethnography and survey was designed and conducted among transsexuals whom were available in Tehran. participatory observation, semi structured interviews and focus group discussion are implemented during the ethnography and a questionnaire was designed for conducting survey. confronting reality and theories different concepts such as body management, different social identities, social recognition, social stigma and social re-socialization were reviewed. based on findings we realized they have a hard struggle to be recognized by different social institutes and social primary groups; but on the ground of social exclusion they may not being successfully re -socialized and adjusted in society. social exclusion is a very important obstacle for their successful re-socialization. Family and school are two the most important primary group in their social re_socialization and social recognition process.based on restrict social exclusion for them, they usually tries committing suicide, escaping from home, school or even university. between transsexuals, those whom transform from female to male usually experience more social support from family and reach a better social recognition process.
yar mohammad ghasemi; eshagh gheysarian
Volume 15, Issue 40 , March 2008, , Pages 27-51
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The present study aims at examining factors affecting child mortality in Ilam province of Iran. Regarding the issue, the study considers relationships between social exclusion and population indicators and child mortality. The method of research is Suruey and the subjects include all married women ranged ...
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The present study aims at examining factors affecting child mortality in Ilam province of Iran. Regarding the issue, the study considers relationships between social exclusion and population indicators and child mortality. The method of research is Suruey and the subjects include all married women ranged 15 to 49 who at least managed to give birth to a healthy baby. Theories of social exclusion and child mortality are used as the theoncal basis of the study. Based on the data obtained, the average size of the families was 4.9; the mean time interred between the births was 42 months; the mean for the children ever born was 3.05 and the mean for the children surviving was 2.5. multi variable logistic regression analysis for the whole province, the indicators of population, social exclusion and the type of marriage had significant impact on mortality rate. in the cities, however, socil exclusion, the type of marriage, and the awareness about child-care had significant impact. Finally, in rural areas, the indicators of population, social exclusion, nutration, and the type of marriag remained in the model.
