seyed ahmad hoseyni haji bekandeh; fatemeh jafari
Volume 15, Issue 41 , August 2008, , Pages 67-85
Abstract
Drug addiction is a phenomenon which causes considerable physical, mental. social, economic and family problems. The purpose of this article is comparing the effective factors in the recurrence of addiction in two groups : patients who have had a history of drug abuse and patients who have not experienced ...
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Drug addiction is a phenomenon which causes considerable physical, mental. social, economic and family problems. The purpose of this article is comparing the effective factors in the recurrence of addiction in two groups : patients who have had a history of drug abuse and patients who have not experienced a recurrence of addiction. The present method is of a semi-experimental type. Our society consisits of patients who underwent detoxification in January 2007, and their state of health is studied until June2008, for a period of six months. By using a sample volume formula, 73 patients were chosen through systematic statistical sampling for each of the above groups. In this research, question forms were used for gathering information. Results show that taking part in personal counseling sessions, avoiding addicted associates, and controlling the strong desire for drugs by the patients can decrease the recurrence of addiction. It seems different methods are required for the treatment of drug addiction and its recurrence in different groups of patients, where sufficient attention should be focused on age, sex, educational status, family conditions, cultural and social background, occupation, physical and mental conditions, as well as place of residence of the patients and also the methods they use to obtain drugs. Such patients should be supported and treated through application of deeper, more comprehensive methods
abolfazl zolfaghari
Abstract
This study is based on a survey which has been carried out to analyze the relationship among interpretations of religion and religiousness and it's dimensions. For measuring religiousness, the Glock & Stark Model and for interpretation of religion, William Shepard's Typology – which are appropriate ...
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This study is based on a survey which has been carried out to analyze the relationship among interpretations of religion and religiousness and it's dimensions. For measuring religiousness, the Glock & Stark Model and for interpretation of religion, William Shepard's Typology – which are appropriate for Islamic countries such as Iran- have been used. The study has been conducted with 707 male and female students of Tehran public universities in February and March, 2008. The survey has revealed that there is substantial relation between religiousness and interpretation of religion at 99% level of significance, so increasing or decreasing of religiousness makes different interpretations of religion. Moreover, there is considerable difference between secular students and other types of interpretations in ideological, experimental, consequential and ritualistic dimensions of religiousness. In other words other types of interpretations (Islamic modernists, radical Islamists, neo-traditionalists and traditionalists) have no significant difference in their religiousness.
Amir Maghdoor Mashhood; Shojae Ahmadvand
ali khaaksari
Volume 10, Issue 22 , August 2003, , Pages 69-102
Abstract
Traffic, transportation, different types of urban trips, land-use and location of facilities in an urban area are complex issues in today's world and have attracted the attention of many urban and transportation planners. Study. analysis and undersiandig of the causes of these phenomena arc considered ...
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Traffic, transportation, different types of urban trips, land-use and location of facilities in an urban area are complex issues in today's world and have attracted the attention of many urban and transportation planners. Study. analysis and undersiandig of the causes of these phenomena arc considered the first step towards solving related problems, such as air and noise pollutions, traffic congestion, traffic accident and wasting or over-using of natural and economic resources. Urban trips depend on the concentration of different economic, social, cultural and educational activities within a city. Therefore, the more dispersed activities in a city, the higher need and demand for trips will be experienced. Educational trips by university and higher education institutes' students are an important pan of urban trips, particularly in large cities. such as Tehran. This paper examines the causes and effects of different elements; namely gender of the student, mode of transportation,
field of study, time of trip, cost of trip and the quality of the modes of transport.
A sample of 303 students in the faculty of social sciences were randomly
chosen and the data were collected by a questionnaire. Afterwards, different trip patterns were identified by analysing the data. To minimize educational trips, the following suggestion are ma<.Ies:
1- Rationally limiting the number of non-local students.
2- Providing accomodation nearby the faculty or university.
3- Providing charter buses for students.
4- Providing affordable and convinient public buses.
5- Concentrating all faculties and other services in a site, in which travelling on foot and/or by bicycle is made possible and encouraged
leyla yazdanpanah; mohamad hoseyn panahi
Volume 11, Issue 26 , August 2004, , Pages 69-107
Abstract
This paper is based on a survey from citizens of over 18 years, living in the city of Tehran in Iran, to study the impact of the respondents' individual and personality characters on the kind and level of their social participation. A sample of 827 people was randomly drawn from the population, and the ...
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This paper is based on a survey from citizens of over 18 years, living in the city of Tehran in Iran, to study the impact of the respondents' individual and personality characters on the kind and level of their social participation. A sample of 827 people was randomly drawn from the population, and the data was collected using a questionnaire. Based on the Parsonsian theoretical framework, three hypotheses were formulated and tested. The study revealed that the predominant form of social participation in our population was traditional and informal, and that the formal social participation was not institutionalized yet. Moreover, the study showed that activeness, trust, belonging, social commitment, hopefulness, education and nonmaterial values had direct and significant association with the level of social participation.
Cultural Studies
Reza Safarishali
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between social body acceptance and cultural capital and the tendency towards cosmetic surgery. The study was conducted through a survey, and the population included all the 15-54-year-old women living in Malayer in 2016. The sample size estimated ...
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The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between social body acceptance and cultural capital and the tendency towards cosmetic surgery. The study was conducted through a survey, and the population included all the 15-54-year-old women living in Malayer in 2016. The sample size estimated through the Cochran formula was 656, and the sample was selected by simple random and multiphase cluster sampling method. The descriptive results showed that women had a high tendency towards cosmetic surgery (46.5). At the medium level, they posessed cultural capital (37.63), and on the average to upward level (39.7), they desired to be accepted. The regression results showed that from among the independent variables, the dimensions of cultural capital (i.e., objectified, embodied, and institutionalized) and social body acceptance (i.e., general, organizational, and peer), objectified capital (B= 0.51), general social acceptance (B= 0.49), institutionalized cultural capital (B= 0.26), and peer acceptance (B= 0.22) had the highest share in explaining the dependent variable. Furthermore, the prediction equation of the degree of women’s tendency towards cosmetic surgery could explain 58.1% of the variance of the dependent variable. The results also showed that the most common reasons for cosmetic surgery included manifested consumption, objective well-being, and social acceptance.
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
rahman saeedi
Volume 9, Issue 17 , May 2002, , Pages 71-96
Abstract
ln this article, in discussing the situation of medias and local cultures in globalization epoch, the writer tries to answer the following question: Does globalization make crisis in cultural identity and destroy local cultures in global culture? To answer this question, different viewpoints from a unmber ...
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ln this article, in discussing the situation of medias and local cultures in globalization epoch, the writer tries to answer the following question: Does globalization make crisis in cultural identity and destroy local cultures in global culture? To answer this question, different viewpoints from a unmber of scientists and theoreticians are studied and analyzed by the writer. Then, he introduces the most important schools and concepts regarding to globalization, in - eluding: realism school, internationalization, regionalization, cultural identity, global culture, media globalization. global village, and cultural imperialism. At the end of the article, the hypothesis has been accepted that globalization not only does not destroy local cultures but also refines them.
hoseyn barani; ali akbar mehrabi; mohammadreza moghadam
Volume 8, Issue 15.16 , February 2002, , Pages 71-99
Abstract
According to the existing information, there are about 900,000 small or big herds, which can be considered as production enterprises. There is no detailed knowledge about herd structure and economic function of these units. Therefore statistical data or documents that refer to herd composition are too ...
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According to the existing information, there are about 900,000 small or big herds, which can be considered as production enterprises. There is no detailed knowledge about herd structure and economic function of these units. Therefore statistical data or documents that refer to herd composition are too vague. Viewpoints which are presented on economic function of these units vary too. In this article that is based on the findings of a participatory research among herders of eastern Elburz, we tried to explain detailed composition of stable herds and culled part of flock to sale in each year. According to the results, separation of production from capital and other economic issues of herds such as accounting should be carried out via accurate and obvious manner.
ebrahim saboktakin rizi; mohamma ebrahim movahedi
Volume 12, Issue 31 , November 2005, , Pages 71-110
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This article intends to carry out a sociological study on the political tendencies of Iranian political activists and elits. This article is the outcome of a scientific research carried out among Iranian political activist and through a survey method. The attempt has been made to explain the social bases ...
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This article intends to carry out a sociological study on the political tendencies of Iranian political activists and elits. This article is the outcome of a scientific research carried out among Iranian political activist and through a survey method. The attempt has been made to explain the social bases of their tendencies to one of the two dominant political wings. The theoretical framework of this article is formed using several sociological theories. A political tendency is taken as the dependent variable, and political socialization, social status, and political experiences as the independent variables. The outcomes shows that political orientation of people to one of two dominant political wings is statistically most related to political socialization and least related to social status. In the other words, social status known in social stratification does not signify the political tendencies of conservatives and reformists rather it is their political socialization that mostly counts for their political tendencies. The results show that the existing dichotomy between two wings is considered as natural and there is no place for being concerned and worried.
Abootorab Talebi; Ahmad Salami
Abstract
This paper examines the phenomenon of writing petition (write a letter Containing a Presentation of wish, to imam) presented from the perspective of actors. The main purpose of this paper is to accede to writer's experience of special connection to the sacred and then to answer two basic question: 1. ...
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This paper examines the phenomenon of writing petition (write a letter Containing a Presentation of wish, to imam) presented from the perspective of actors. The main purpose of this paper is to accede to writer's experience of special connection to the sacred and then to answer two basic question: 1. the person who write the petition and put it in jamkaran well, how to look at this action?2. what is the typology of writer's petition?This topic was analyzed with using Qualitative method. Data were collected in different ways including depth interviews, participant observation, focus group discussions and creating friendly conversation. Our findings shows that it can be seen a type of religiosity called popular religiosity in this phenomenon. Some features of this type of religiosity are: easy acceptance of beliefs, confluence of the sacred and non-sacred, dory ultimate commitment, the involvement of intermediaries, miscible teaching and etc.
Sociology
Mohamad Saeed Zokaei; Mehran Solati
Abstract
One of the fundamental concerns in the political sociology of any society is the nature of government in that society. Governments have various economic, social, cultural and political natures. In the present paper, the effect of Iran’s peripheral position in the global system on the transformation ...
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One of the fundamental concerns in the political sociology of any society is the nature of government in that society. Governments have various economic, social, cultural and political natures. In the present paper, the effect of Iran’s peripheral position in the global system on the transformation of government-nation relations during the first Pahlavi reign is studied. The purpose of the study is to examine the necessary measures of the Pahlavi government with regards to its peripheral position, and to discuss its nature and features. Firstly, the assumption of the authors in this paper is that the economic reconstruction of the Pahlavi government has been in line with harmonizing Iran’s economy with the requirements of the global capitalist system. The second assumption also puts emphasis on the extension of militarism and supervising each and every field of society by Reza Shah. In total, this paper considers the transformations in the government-nation relations of the first Pahlavi reign to be a reaction to Iran’s peripheral position in the global system. The study was conducted with the historical sociology approach and through a documentary method. The results showed that both measures done during the first Pahlavi government, that is, economic reconstruction and the extension of supervision on every aspect of the collective life of the society, has been related to Iran’s peripheral position in the global system.
Mohsen Niazi; Esmail Mazroui Nasrabadi; Shiva Aghabozorgizadeh
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The family is the most basic social institution that has the task of transmitting the values of society to individuals. In recent decades, changes in different areas of the family community have affected the family. So a different and unknown future awaits the family that has caused social panic. Given ...
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The family is the most basic social institution that has the task of transmitting the values of society to individuals. In recent decades, changes in different areas of the family community have affected the family. So a different and unknown future awaits the family that has caused social panic. Given the vacuum of research in this area, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the future of family values change that has not been done in Iran so it is considered to innovative in its thematic and dominant approach. The statistical population consisted of experts in the fields of sociology and cultural studies. The sample size was 17 persons and data collection tool was interview. After the interviews were conducted by thematic analysis method, the main themes of the interviews were extracted. And then, using the causal layer analysis, their components and dimensions were identified at four levels of Lithuanian, social causes, discourse, and myth. The metaphors / myths derived from the study of family values in Iran in the present study are: Autumn, only myself, home as a dorm.
Mohammad Hossein Panahi; Ali Aliabadi
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Abstract:This survey research aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of foreign media and political cultures. For this purpose, 410 citizens aged 18 years and older living in 22 districts of Tehran were included in the sample by stratified sampling method, and using research data collected ...
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Abstract:This survey research aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of foreign media and political cultures. For this purpose, 410 citizens aged 18 years and older living in 22 districts of Tehran were included in the sample by stratified sampling method, and using research data collected with a questionnaire, research hypotheses were tested. According to the descriptive findings of the study, the citizens of the statistical sample tended to liberal political values, socialist political values, and Islamic political values, respectively. According to the research results, with the increase in the use of foreign media, the tendency to liberal political culture increased, but the tendency to socialist and Islamic political cultures decreased. Another result of the research was that with increase of information and communication independence of individuals, the tendency towards liberal political culture increased but the tendency towards Islamic and socialist political cultures decreased.Keywords: Foreign media, globalization, information and communication independence, political culture
Tahereh Khazaei
Abstract
Despite its widespread use as an equivalent for immigrant populations, the term diaspora remains semantically and theoretically ambiguous. This study hypothesizes that the term diaspora fails to represent Iranian immigration and its divergent heterogeneities. Discussing theoretical approaches to diaspora, ...
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Despite its widespread use as an equivalent for immigrant populations, the term diaspora remains semantically and theoretically ambiguous. This study hypothesizes that the term diaspora fails to represent Iranian immigration and its divergent heterogeneities. Discussing theoretical approaches to diaspora, the characteristics of Iranian immigration, and the findings of interviews with forty young Iranian immigrants living in France, the present study attempts to offer a more suitable alternative to the term diaspora. It will be revealed that the heterogeneity of Iranian immigration in causes, conception of immigration experience, as well as disinclination to create a unified community in host countries, leads Iranians living outside their country to form small and scattered clusters and live on isolated islands. The term proposed to be used in lieu of diaspora is “archipelago ethnicity”, which shows both the heterogeneity and divergence in Iranian immigration in general and represents the only connection between the scattered and isolated islands, i.e., being Iranian.
Mohammadtaghi Karami; Shima Aliabadi
Abstract
Modesty has always been considered a cultural value in Iranian society although it is widely used, it has long been an important part of the ideal femininity of Iranian society. In addition to culture, modesty is emphasized in formal religious discourse and it is closely related to hijab and some female ...
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Modesty has always been considered a cultural value in Iranian society although it is widely used, it has long been an important part of the ideal femininity of Iranian society. In addition to culture, modesty is emphasized in formal religious discourse and it is closely related to hijab and some female behaviors. Such an approach has led to the mentality that modesty has disappeared from society by reducing the desire of women to the desired formal patterns of hijab in recent years. But today, modesty is an important and living trait and we may talk about changing the meaning of modesty. In this study, following the discovery of the meaning of modesty in Iranian women and their perception of this category, by adopting a phenomenological approach and using the method of thematic analysis, in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 women aged 18-35 years to provide a formulation of meanings. The three main categories of "Liberation policy - politics of life", "Restrained and empathetic rethinking" and "Embodied formal construction" were extracted and it is indicative of the three categories of Iranian women 's encounter with the category of modesty, which has been able to shape the mental apace of wemen in relation to this concept.
Ali Akbar Tajmazinani; Mahdieh Hamed
Hadi Khaniki; Mahmood Babaei
Yaghoob Ghaffari; Mansooreh Razavi
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Yaghob Ghafari Date of Receive: 2014/9/11Date of Accept: 2014/12/8Abstract:This article aims to draw attention of formal officials and also residents of Kohkiluey and Boyer Ahmad specially environmentalist, towards risks that threaten the life of wild plants of the region. During seasonal migrations, ...
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Yaghob Ghafari Date of Receive: 2014/9/11Date of Accept: 2014/12/8Abstract:This article aims to draw attention of formal officials and also residents of Kohkiluey and Boyer Ahmad specially environmentalist, towards risks that threaten the life of wild plants of the region. During seasonal migrations, the meal was prepared daily and this never damaged wild plants and halal animals. In fact migrant tribal knew them as common property of the group. Although wild plants of cold and hot areas/ summer and winter areas are different, some such as Oak grow in both areas. In recent years because of uncontrolled utilization of plants, many of precious plants have been endangered. As a matter of general poverty and greed of profit seeker, utilization of wild plants become as business. This would be a warning for all of formal officials, local residents and environmentalists.
mohmmad hoseyn panahi; fariba shaygan
Volume 14, Issue 37 , March 2007, , Pages 73-108
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Political trust addresses the relation between people and state. Researches say political trust has had a declining trend in Iran since the victory of the revolution. Religion is among the factors which affect political trust, and has been emphasized in the theories of the classical and contemporary ...
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Political trust addresses the relation between people and state. Researches say political trust has had a declining trend in Iran since the victory of the revolution. Religion is among the factors which affect political trust, and has been emphasized in the theories of the classical and contemporary sociologists and social capital theorists. This fact is more considerable in Iran where a religious government is in power and religion clearly and apparently intervenes with politics. Guidens describes the impact of religion on the political trust as one of the characteristics of the traditional societies and points to the religious commitments of the authorities in the traditional societies as well as function of the access point, basic trust, and govenment's endeavor to provide social-economic welfare for the people as other factors which affect the political trust. In order to investigate the political trust in three domains of trust in the political system, political institutions and political actors through a survey method, information was collected from 630 over-20-year individuals in Tehran which had been selected by the quota sampling method. Results of the research showed that people trust in the politica system more than institutions and actors. The extent of the religiosity of the respondents as well as their basic trust. satisfaction with function of the access point, interpretation of the extent of religious commitments of the authorities and also state's endeavor to pro' tde social-economic welfare for the people affect the pointerpretation of the respondents of the state's endeavor to provide social-economic welfare for the peoplelitical trust. The highest effect belong, to the
Hamid Abdollahi; Hanieh Madadi; Sajjad Moradi
Abstract
Hamid Ebadollahi Chanzanagh Haniyeh Madadi Sajad Moradi Date of Receive: 2013/10/2Date of Accept: 2014/1/10AbstractNowadays in Iranian's society, the problem of identity hold specific importance and complexity and several arguments have presented about it. But these arguments have more obvious ...
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Hamid Ebadollahi Chanzanagh Haniyeh Madadi Sajad Moradi Date of Receive: 2013/10/2Date of Accept: 2014/1/10AbstractNowadays in Iranian's society, the problem of identity hold specific importance and complexity and several arguments have presented about it. But these arguments have more obvious aspects about women's identity. From one side, structural and cultural changes which occurred increased opportunities in education and employment for women, causing new forms of identification. On the other side, the existence of gender stereotypes, faced women with many challenges in this area. Identity is a complex process influenced by many factors among which family structure is the most important one. Therefore, in this study, we have discussed the effect of family structure on women's reflexive identity. In the theoretical part, perspectives of Giddens on identity and reflexivity, his feminist critics and also Castells' perspectives of patriarchy are used. The present study is a survey. Data is collected through questionnaires.384 female university students of Allameh Tabataba'I University were selected out of 1,600 through proportional quota sampling. Results indicate that the respondent show strong resistance against gender stereotypes and body management is also very important for them. The highest rate of "decision making" pattern and "division of housework" pattern was among the respondents of the patriarchal family. In addition, research results evidence a significant correlation between "power structures in family” and "rate of women's reflexive identity"; So that the rate of women's reflexive identity in families with patriarchal decision-making pattern is more than other women. In" division of housework” dimension, the high rate of women's reflexive identity belongs to women whose decision-making pattern in their family is participatory.
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.
gholamreza latifi
Volume 11, Issue 27 , November 2004, , Pages 75-100
Abstract
Urban management as a democratic approach aims to administer cities. However as governmental management is dominant in Iran. this approach has not been developed. ln spite of civic movements triggered by constitutional revolution. urban management in Iran is still non-democratic. The time period covered ...
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Urban management as a democratic approach aims to administer cities. However as governmental management is dominant in Iran. this approach has not been developed. ln spite of civic movements triggered by constitutional revolution. urban management in Iran is still non-democratic. The time period covered in this study (approximately a decade) coincides with the first socioeconomic development plan. This plan aimed for liberalisation and privatization policies on evonomy and on a minimal government. Tehran municipality as a public institution has followed this strategy. This article intends to clarify methods and policies adopted in this regard. Our main objective is to understand and to assess factors influencing decision making in urban management. The theoretical framework and analytical model adopted claims that urban management in Iran has been influenced by power structure and socioeconomic system in Iran. This article aims to answer questions like the impact of management structure in society on municipality policies, the impact of mayor's power on decision making processes in municipality, the effeciency of tools employed to administer urban issues and the impact of macro economic objectives and policies on incomes made by the municipality.
gholamreza latifi
Volume 16, Issue 46 , November 2009, , Pages 75-105
Abstract
Sociology has experienced a specific era in recent decades: on the one hand, emphasizing the methodic and conceptual guidance and on the other hand, escaping from the sheer rationalism, harmful influences of which have resulted in creating post • modernization thoughts in different sciences. Weber ...
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Sociology has experienced a specific era in recent decades: on the one hand, emphasizing the methodic and conceptual guidance and on the other hand, escaping from the sheer rationalism, harmful influences of which have resulted in creating post • modernization thoughts in different sciences. Weber is known as one of the main founders of sociology, but his writings have been extended from this arena to encompass historical, legal • ideology, economic and comparative study areas. Weber's thoughts, though with changes, is still used in sociology. Winch has been active in the field of philosophy, cognition and social thoughts before entering the sociology area. Differentiating between science and philosophy, he believes that mission of science is the study of causational nature of small events while that of philosophy is the study of nature of reality. In this paper, the author tries to embark on the methodological theories and ideas of Max Weber and Peter Winch. While having some common grounds, these two scholars have had unique investigations and explorations with distinct velocity and profundity in the word of meaning and act, nature and existence and existence or object and subject.
