Zeinab Bilaki; Ali Akbar Tajmazinani
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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 ...
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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.
Yaser Rastegar; Sima Hadi
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In multicultural societies, identity conflicts, especially indigenous/non-indigenous dualities, create an identifying source, and lead to identity challenges and conflicts. The purpose of the present study was to describe the perception and interpretation of the indigenous inhabitants of Bandar Abbas ...
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In multicultural societies, identity conflicts, especially indigenous/non-indigenous dualities, create an identifying source, and lead to identity challenges and conflicts. The purpose of the present study was to describe the perception and interpretation of the indigenous inhabitants of Bandar Abbas of the duality of indigenous identity and non-indigenous identity and to reveal its contexts and implications. The present study was conducted using qualitative research method and grounded theory strategy. Field data were obtained using purposive-theoretical sampling and interviews with 23 indigenous residents who have lived in the city for at least three generations and were finally analyzed based on three-step coding by Strauss and Corbin. Field findings indicate that the perception of indigenous residents of Bandar Abbas of non-indigenous residents is not inherent, but is based on the lived experience of actors and their social interactions. Participants gain an indigenous identity through their presence and life in their ancestral homeland, but interpret the non-native as a problematic other, because they see their economic interests as well as cultural values as somewhat lost. The consequence of this perception is the strengthening of cohesion within group against out group and the increase of ethnocentrism.
Fardin Mohammadi; Mohsen Noghani; Mahdi Kermani
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In the last decade, Iranian researchers in the field of sociology and management have widely used the grounded theory in their research. Given the specific features of this methodology, the main issue of the present study is that what are the strengths and weaknesses of sociological and managerial research ...
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In the last decade, Iranian researchers in the field of sociology and management have widely used the grounded theory in their research. Given the specific features of this methodology, the main issue of the present study is that what are the strengths and weaknesses of sociological and managerial research based on grounded theory? To answer the research question the meta-method and the systematic review were used. The studied population consists of a series of articles published in international scientific journals from 2016 to 2018 that due to the focus of the research on critical methodology of grounded theory based on the approach of Strauss and Corbin, 36 articles were selected and reviewed in the source selection stage. the results of the research indicate that the researches face with fundamental problems about the criteria of “problem, the formulation of micro questions, the studied population, the explanation of the stages of data analysis in the findings select, the coincidence of data collection and analysis, category building technique, category dimensional recognition technique, named selection technique, core category selection technique, credibility, comparison with other theories and theoretical sensitivity”. These problems can be categorized into five categories of technical challenges, the theory and method gap, the distortion of the goal, the lack of knowledge of grounded theory and the paradigmatic challenge.
Mahdokht Ghorbani; Alireza Shojaeezand
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This study concerns the situation of sociology education in Iran through a phenomenological approach. The question is: “what is the role of sociology education in the current situation of Iran?” In this research, we tried to categorize different influential reasons on sociology conditions, ...
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This study concerns the situation of sociology education in Iran through a phenomenological approach. The question is: “what is the role of sociology education in the current situation of Iran?” In this research, we tried to categorize different influential reasons on sociology conditions, and after demonstrating the importance of the teaching, we straight to the reality of sociology education without any postulated approach. The methodology is grounded theory which lets us look at this subject from a phenomenological approach. The first step is to refer to the involved actors in the education process to explain the reality as they are experiencing and living it. This plan is completed by interviewing seven professors and 15 students from three universities in Iran. These interviews are taken in open and semi-open techniques, which provided us a level of reality based on the lived experience of the actors, the consciousness of sociology teaching, classes, and the university environment. The sample size was chosen based on theoretical saturation. To analyze data, an open and axial codification was applied, and by specifying the central categories, the authors reached a conceptual ordering and a description of the current situation of sociology education in Iran.
Ali Nourisani; Reza Ali Mohseni; Majid Koosheshi
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The implementation of reservoir dams has caused the displacement of more than 80 million people. According to the present study, more than 2 million people have been affected by the construction of dams in Iran. The present study aims at investigating into the socio-cultural impacts and consequences ...
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The implementation of reservoir dams has caused the displacement of more than 80 million people. According to the present study, more than 2 million people have been affected by the construction of dams in Iran. The present study aims at investigating into the socio-cultural impacts and consequences of two methods of managing the release of dam reservoirs. Criticizing these two policies and consequences and identifying the causal, contextual, intervening, strategic occur. The research method is qualitative and the Grounded Theory is used. The study participants were 47 informants and local experts who were interviewed with a semi-structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed based on three methods of open, axial and selective coding. The results of the interview analysis included 391 general concepts, 118 subcategories, 21 main categories and 2 central categories. The research findings based on the paradigmatic model show the relative stability of social, cultural domains in relocation, resettlement policy, the disruption of social structure and cultural context in cash compensation policy. The results of the present study can be considered in terms of the necessity of changing the approaches, determining the social sphere and the need to monitor and evaluate the social impacts of the projects.
Dariush Boostani; Fatemeh Heidarynejad
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The aim of the present study is a sociological investigation of women suffering from HIV/AIDS through an emic approach. The study utilizes the qualitative method of grounded theory, and the field of the research is Kerman, with the participants being women referring to the behavioral diseases counseling ...
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The aim of the present study is a sociological investigation of women suffering from HIV/AIDS through an emic approach. The study utilizes the qualitative method of grounded theory, and the field of the research is Kerman, with the participants being women referring to the behavioral diseases counseling center. The data were collected via sequential interviews with fifty women. Data analysis culminated in five categories and one core category which were: exclusion-support, biographical disruption, vagueness of the patient’s rights, double powerlessness, and losing self. The core category was “The trap of women’s powerlessness in the process of an identity-oriented disease.” Generally, the findings indicate that the women’s powerlessness is a consequence of their exclusion and biographical disruption in the process of the disease. Also, the powerlessness in conjunction with the gender powerlessness culminated in weakness of the patient’s agency during treatment.
Sociology
Masoud Chari sadegh; Ahmadreza Asgharpourmasouleh; Gholamreza Sedigh Ouraee; Mehdi Kermani; Mahdi Feizi
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This study explores the action, conditions governing the action, practical factors, and strategic approaches of the builders in the housing market. It is an exploratory, qualitative, applied, and cross-sectional research. Accordingly, a systematic analysis of the in-depth interview with 25 people in ...
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This study explores the action, conditions governing the action, practical factors, and strategic approaches of the builders in the housing market. It is an exploratory, qualitative, applied, and cross-sectional research. Accordingly, a systematic analysis of the in-depth interview with 25 people in the housing market in Mashhad was conducted using the Strauss and Corbin's ground theory method. As a result, 256 sub-categories were obtained, and after several coding steps, finally, based on selective coding, the central phenomenon was called "technocratic builders in the struggle for interest and credit". The obtained paradigmatic model included a set of conditions. For example, ground conditions have been formulated as "the economic situation of the metropolitan of Mashhad" and "socio-cultural changes in the pattern of urban housing". Interventional conditions include "decline expertise of housing construction", and "the evolution of the share of land value in housing prices". Causal conditions include "the ability to manage multiple activities", "having the necessary capital or the possibility to absorb it" and "awareness of market conditions". Taking strategies such as "participatory construction", "continuous construction" and "change in construction pattern" lead to the consequences like the "periodic ups and downs at the level of builder performance", "involving with the challenge of balancing profit and loss".
Sociology
mohsen niazi; hadi afra
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Affected by the spread of modernism and reconstruction in the global field, and subsequently with the self-awareness resulting from the conditions and features of life in the modern world, a major part of our society is traditional, while part of it is modern and another part postmodern. Such a situation ...
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Affected by the spread of modernism and reconstruction in the global field, and subsequently with the self-awareness resulting from the conditions and features of life in the modern world, a major part of our society is traditional, while part of it is modern and another part postmodern. Such a situation is a cause for identity crisis, hence, the rising importance of identity and identity formation in sociology. Therefore, with the aim of the semantic reconstruction of the structure of the postmodern individual identity among the youth of the city of Bojnourd, the present study has employed a grounded theory method. The qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews, and theoretical coding was used in order to analyze the information and develop a final theory. Through purposive sampling and also based on the theoretical saturation measure, 27 young people participated in this study, and the information was gathered through in-depth interviews and their understanding with regards to the postmodern individual identity was analyzed. Based on grounded theory, the findings are classified into ten general categories of consumerism, relativism, fluidity, reflective thinking, reference group, belief in the expressive self, selective identity, mass media, satisfaction, and lifestyle. The core category in this study is “the postmodern individual identity” which includes in itself the other main categories. The developed grounded theory has been presented in the form of a paradigm.
Mohammad Zahedi Asl; Azam Pilevari
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The current study aims to recognize the cognitive processes of ex-addicts and their families with the method of grounded theory. The participants were chosen based on a purposeful sampling method, and sampling continued until the saturation point of data was reached. Hence, 18 ex-addicts and 20 ...
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The current study aims to recognize the cognitive processes of ex-addicts and their families with the method of grounded theory. The participants were chosen based on a purposeful sampling method, and sampling continued until the saturation point of data was reached. Hence, 18 ex-addicts and 20 family members took part in this research. Data were collected through observation, semi-structured interviews and reviewing documents, and the Corbin and Strauss coding system was used to analyze the data. The participants believed that addiction is treatable, that each person is responsible for their own behavior, and that they cannot change other people. They also believed the substance user to be responsible for his or her own addiction and treatment, they were focused on the present, and they believed the negative behaviors and previous relapses of the ex-addict to be rooted in his or her dependence to substances. Moreover, this group thought that if a substance user is treated with the Congress 60 method, an 11-month period of medication treatment, he or she will not be tempted to use again. They also claimed that after the treatment period, interacting with friends who are using substances would not pose problems.
Mohammad Masoud Saeedi
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The growth of spiritual groups in society can be an indicator of a new direction in the transformation of the general culture; therefore, the scientific and objective study of these groups would have an important role in recognizing the needs of the modern individual and his or her expectations from ...
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The growth of spiritual groups in society can be an indicator of a new direction in the transformation of the general culture; therefore, the scientific and objective study of these groups would have an important role in recognizing the needs of the modern individual and his or her expectations from religion, and in general, recognizing the contemporary culture. One of these groups that more or less continues to grow despite legal prohibitions is the Erfan-e Halghe group. The special conditions present in the individual and his or her surroundings provide ample ground for their joining the Erfan-e Halghe classes and keeping on attending them with the motivation of reaching a state of calm. Such conditions include the individual’s unpleasant chronic state of mind, lack of efficiency of conventional religiosity, repulsiveness of traditional ceremonies, having a personality of reliance on feelings and emotions rather than on intellect, confidence in friends, and attraction of new classes. The person in the group experiences a process of moving from an unpleasant state of mind to a pleasant one through some tricks and attractive teachings. This self-conscious process does not happen for all members, and when it does happen, the relocation process is relative and certainly only survives so long as the person does not put aside his or her intimate relationship with his/her co-members in the group. In Erfan-e Halghe with the consequences which are self-consciously considered to be positive, there are some unconscious consequences regarded in the cultures of human societies as the person having been the victim of deception.
Abootorab Talebi; Elaheh Baragh Alipoor
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Abotorab Talebi[1] Elahe Boragh Alipour[2] Date of Receive: 2012/4/18 Date of Accept: 2013/4/6 The purpose of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of "pilgrimage of Imam" and understanding Iranian pilgrims. In examining pilgrimage, four dimensions can be identified: rituals pertaining ...
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Abotorab Talebi[1] Elahe Boragh Alipour[2] Date of Receive: 2012/4/18 Date of Accept: 2013/4/6 The purpose of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of "pilgrimage of Imam" and understanding Iranian pilgrims. In examining pilgrimage, four dimensions can be identified: rituals pertaining to the fashion of performing the pilgrimage (practical dimension), beliefs that underlie these actions (belief dimension), social conditions and the individual’s (pilgrim’s) perceptions about this act. The purpose of this paper is to examine and understand the action of pilgrimage from the viewpoint of the actor (the understanding of the actors). We explored the meaning of this action using qualitative research method and grounded theory method. The research data have been obtained through in-depth interviews and the observation method was also used as an auxiliary technique. The findings of this study revealed different patterns of piety. Also it reaches the effect of Iranian’s piety pattern as a key factor in forming each individual’s vision towards pilgrimage and ultimately his/her understanding of pilgrimage. In fact, data analysis has recognized a pattern of piety and pilgrimage in two general categories which includes seven subcategories: Ideological, traditional, intellectual, pseudo-intellectual, ritualistic, ceremonial, and newly emerged. This typology is conducted on the basis of differences of pilgrim’s vision towards religion, pilgrimage, the Imam’s pilgrimage and the effect of these different visions in the act of pilgrimage. [1]. Associate Professor of Sociology، Allameh Tabatabaee University. tatalebi@yahoo.com [2]. MA in Sociology, from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
hadi khnayeki; mansureh tabrizi
Volume 16, Issue 46 , November 2009, , Pages 187-228
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this article is an attempt to Provide a deep recognition of desirable and satisfactory marital relationship.It''s obvious that the formation and continuation of individual satisfaction from this relation has a close relation with the mentioned person''s individual and social conditions. Beside displaying ...
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this article is an attempt to Provide a deep recognition of desirable and satisfactory marital relationship.It''s obvious that the formation and continuation of individual satisfaction from this relation has a close relation with the mentioned person''s individual and social conditions. Beside displaying deep introduction from satisfactory relation of individual''s this study attempts to study the individual moral attitude, the attitude of a spouse and their action based on relationship procedure. Collected data shows that among the samples the rank and role an individual believes in · has a deep effect on his'' he entire thinking of a true relationship. Simple prospects of individualist among woman show that they need effective place in marital relationship. in following such desires from their life which are displayed in features such as sincerity, kindness and comprehension'' Women face several challenges. This study shows that consciuy or subconsciaus moral attitude is helpful in facilitating the marital relationship during a spouse''s life period. Each woman according to the condition adopts especial strategie for making the relationship acceptable. Success or failure of woman in utilizing such strategie figure out their inner satisfaction or dissatisfaction from their relationship with their spouses in different periods of life.
khadijeh safiri; abuali vadad hir; somayeh talebi ardakani
Volume 16, Issue 44 , May 2009, , Pages 89-121
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This paper aims to examine the socially and culturally constructed nature or the issue of Mehriyeh among women grappling with the issue in Shiraz, Iran. More specifically, the study aims at the understandings, reasons and purposes of women to ask over their Mehriyeh, while they have it in mind getting ...
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This paper aims to examine the socially and culturally constructed nature or the issue of Mehriyeh among women grappling with the issue in Shiraz, Iran. More specifically, the study aims at the understandings, reasons and purposes of women to ask over their Mehriyeh, while they have it in mind getting divorced. This study, epistemologically, enjoys a social constructionist perspective for approaching the issue and, methodologically, draws on a qualitative approach for gathering/making and analyzing data. J,1 order of gathering data, twenty-six in-depth interviews were done with wives who had difficulties for receiving their Mehriyeh. Interviews were witnessed many difficulties in terms of feasibility. For instance, all interviews were done in a public place in Shiraz in two months. The findings of the research are evidence for heterogeneity of the issue of Mehriyeh in terms of roots, forms. and consequences. The interviewed women thought of Mehriyeh as a tool to defend their rights and autonomy and recover their styles of life. Moreover, handling the issues of Mehriyeh entails review and re-formulation of the laws to be improved the condition of marriage and divorce, women said.
saeed zakai
Volume 9, Issue 17 , May 2002, , Pages 41-69
Abstract
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.
