Demography
Reza Nobakht; Ahmad Dorahaki; Ali Ghasemi Ardahaee
Abstract
The level of total fertility required for the replacement level may vary from country to country and even within geographical regions of the same country. It is not correct to generalize the total fertility rate required for the replacement level for all countries and regions, especially when the regions ...
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The level of total fertility required for the replacement level may vary from country to country and even within geographical regions of the same country. It is not correct to generalize the total fertility rate required for the replacement level for all countries and regions, especially when the regions and countries being compared have significant differences in development. Applying the method of Preston et al. 2003 and using the country's registration and census data from 1385 to 1394, the present study estimated the total fertility rate required for the replacement level in Iran and its various provinces. This index for the year 2013 for the provinces of Sistan and Baluchistan is 2.3, for the provinces of South Khorasan, Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari, Hormozgan, Kohkiloye and Boyer Ahmad, East Azerbaijan, Ilam, Kermanshah, and Kurdistan it is about 2.2 and for other provinces, it is about 1. 2 children were calculated for each woman. Paying attention to these differences and the importance of the sex ratio at birth, the probability of survival of female children from birth to the average childbearing, are among the topics that should be considered in reaching replacement level fertility in the country.
Sociology
ali Ayar; Moosa Anbari
Abstract
Using the critical ethnographic method, this study examines the effect of development interventions on the social sphere and economic activity of local communities in Ilam and Lorestan provinces. The findings of the research show that the development has put the pre-intervention ecosystem which was dominated ...
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Using the critical ethnographic method, this study examines the effect of development interventions on the social sphere and economic activity of local communities in Ilam and Lorestan provinces. The findings of the research show that the development has put the pre-intervention ecosystem which was dominated by the social issue under the attack of the economic issue. In the process of development intervention, the cultural capacities and traditions that connect and help local economic perceptions have been neglected, and instead official and capital-oriented government programs have been expanded in objective and subjective dimensions; The result of the weakening of popular traditions is the rise of new pseudo-technocratic groups that consider local cultural values such as hard work, contentment, cooperation, and generosity as symbols of backwardness. In fact, native activists, as new self-directed productive managers, have become those who are caught in the trap of donations, loans and hires to market their labor force and provide their livelihood. In order to show this reduction, we have used the metaphor of a walnut tree as a symbol of a hardworking, connected and diligent nature-oriented society, and a eucalyptus tree as a symbol of borrowed intervention, a consumerist, pretentious and discrete society,
Sociology
Tahereh Khazaei
Abstract
The expansion of the virtual space and communication networks has changed Iranian society by providing a sphere for constructing personalized narratives of the social lifeworld. Physicians are a social class with a dubious presence in the virtual space, especially on X. The genealogy of medicine ...
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The expansion of the virtual space and communication networks has changed Iranian society by providing a sphere for constructing personalized narratives of the social lifeworld. Physicians are a social class with a dubious presence in the virtual space, especially on X. The genealogy of medicine is known as an institution professionally entwined with ambiguity, authority, and authenticity. On the other hand, the modern world is characterized by deconsecrating and demystification. The current research is a netnography that relies on verstehen to understand the physicians’ twits on the X social medium in 2023. The four dominant conceptual patterns extracted in our thematic analysis include the emergence of the patient subject and the interpellation of the doctor, fearfulness about the emergence of traditional medicine that de-monopolizes health, the physician’s constructs from mafia to the martyr of health, and the unactualized alienation of the physician. Overall, the expansion of virtual social media has accelerated the physicians’ disempowerment and demystification as a result of which the sacred, ambiguous aura around the physician has encountered a call to the center, providing the reflexive narration of the physician, his lifeworld, and his problems.
Keywords: Reflexivity, Virtual Space, Physician’s Lifeworld, X (Twitter), Iranian Society.
Introduction
Today, social media and the virtual space compete with the physical world as one of the main spheres of modern life. Providing people with shared interests to gather around each other via the possibility of visual and written dialogue, the virtual space has introduced new experiences of constructing and narrating the self. Despite their widespread filtering, Telegram, Instagram, and X are among the most popular social media in Iran. Among other social classes in Iran, physicians have a distinct presence in X as an elite social medium.
As an expert institution, medicine is of high status, authenticity, authority, and income. In cosmologic worldviews, disease and medicine are connected to mythical and metaphysical beliefs as well as concepts such as destiny, magic, and enchantment, while in the theological worldview, they pertain to God’s wrath and atonement of sins, and in popular culture, they are connected to healing and miracle (Salehi, Zokai & Ekhlasi, 2019; Adam, Herzlich, 2006; Masoudnia, 2010; Svenaeus, 2021). In Islamic beliefs, the physician is revered as God’s hand that heals (Mohaghegh Damad, 2016; Sadr, 2011; Kiyani, 2012). With such a genealogy that rivals bordering professions such as Traditional medicine, medicine finds mysterious, latent characteristics that distinguish it from the non-physician others while even the emergence of modern medicine has not removed the sacred, metaphysical, mysterious aura that it is traditionally endowed with. Following widespread social changes, medicine and physicians have faced a call to the center and to self-narration in the communicative sphere that social media provides. Though the process is global in scope, it pertains to specific Iranian particularities that go back to the simultaneous paradoxical claim of traditional medicine to scientific and Islamic originality and the duality of the science/medicine vis-à-vis culture and politics in the Iranian polemic society.
Research Question(s)
In this research, we answer two questions: what is the physicians’ narrative of medicine and their lifeworld in the X (Twitter) social media? How is this narrative framed and in what conceptual pattern is it interpreted?
Literature Review
Following the deinstitutionalization and detraditionalization of all traditional and premodern institutions, and the limiting and threatening of the validity and authority of meaning and images constructed by them (Martuccelli, 2002; Martuccelli and de Singly, 2012), the physician and medicine as the legacy of both tradition and modernity that carry an aura of ambiguity, magic, and sanctity are no exempt from rethinking and reconstructing their images and narratives. The process of disempowering medicine found momentum with the initial attempts at understanding it as a science with material, earthly, and learned skills around the body (Salehi, 2019) that in the late 20th century faced uncertainties about the novel medicalization methods (Starr, 1982), critics of the pathogenicity of modern medicine (Illich, 1976 and 1975) and the capability of modern medicine in healing in contemporary society. With medicine’s authority under challenge, the subject of medicine was interpellated in the sense that the physician was summoned to give an account of himself as an opportunity open to the once impossible experience of realizing the individual self as the reflexive self (Martuccelli de Singly, 2012). With the physician called to the center to self-narrate, social media turned into a major context for the narration of the physician’s social lifeworld.
Materials and Methods
The theoretical approach of this research is verstehen, the field and object of the research are chosen using netnography (Kozinets, 2006), and classic thematic analysis is used for the analysis of findings. The field includes the twits of 50 Iranian general practitioners and professional doctors (male and female) in 2023 in the X social media that center on narrating their experiences and analyses relevant to medicine in Iran.
Results
The emergence of the patient and the interpellation of the physician (the increased medical knowledge of the patient, state’s intervention in providing cheap medical services, insurance agents and the evaluation of the physicians’ merits), fearfulness of the emergence of traditional discourse and the demonopolization of medicine (criticizing the university for legitimating traditional medicine, criticizing the state for defining policies in favor of Islamic medicine, delegitimizing the outdated methods of traditional medicine as the instance of fraud), the construction of the physician’s image in the two extremes of mafia and health martyr (the profit-making nature of medicine and its desanctifiication, self-interested medicine as against the historical and cultural genealogy) and the physician’s unactualized self (the experience of medicine in the cleavage between reality and the constructed image, boredom in the experience of medicine, the lack of context for practicing the learnt knowledge and the resulting alienation in the personal experience of physicians) are the dominant meaning patterns in the analysis of twits.
Information Table of Doctors and their Pages in X Communication Network
Medical Verification/ Medical Number
Medical Expertise
Gender
X Account
Number
Followers - content of tweets
Neurosurgeon
Male
@kazemo_sarp
1
Followers - content of tweets
Surgeon
Male
@pedipayam
2
n.m.: 134915
General Physician
Male
@RLaripour
3
n.m.: 21194
Neurologist
Male
@drbabakzamani
4
n.m.: 22513
Vascular and Trauma Surgeon
Male
@MrZafarghandi
5
n.m.: 91913
Oncologist
Male
@OmidrezaieDr
6
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@k_md_29
7
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Female
@Drshahrzad80
8
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@drcitalopram
9
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@sheykholtabib
10
Followers - content of tweets
Orthopedist
Male
@Mahmouddream1
11
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@khodesheh
12
n.m.: 149053
General Physician
Male
@smmirkhani
13
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@Azimut1400
14
n.m.: 77415
General Physician
Male
@SMoattar
15
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Female
@thecatloverrr
16
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@MahdiR86388324
17
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Female
@negarmr96
18
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@litt_lebowski
19
Followers - content of tweets
Knee Surgeon
Male
@rasulghm
20
Followers - content of tweets
Internist
Male
@Dr_reza_safaei
21
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Female
@faryadbseda
22
n.m.: 104691
Anesthesiologist
Male
@e_bastan
23
Followers - content of tweets
General Surgeon
Male
@RPORED4/ RPO
24
Followers - content of tweets
Neurologist
Male
@Naseh Mohi
25
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@rhamed32
26
Followers - content of tweets
Neurosurgeon
Male
@sm_sinuhe
27
Followers - content of tweets
Surgeon
Male
@Mahmouddeream1
28
n.m.: 31395
Neurologist
Male
@JavadAmeliMD
29
n.m.: 108208
Breast Surgeon
Male
@drhamidahmadi
30
Followers - content of tweets
Radiologist
Male
@legendoffall_
31
Followers - content of tweets
Cardiologist
Male
@rezaaa1986
32
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@NimaValiollah
33
n.m.: 129155
Anesthesiologist
Male
@Amirhos10096134
34
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@poetofdoctors
35
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@ehsan7j
36
n.m.: 140597
Internist
Male
@dfereydoonzadeh
37
Followers - content of tweets
Internist
Male
@cinnora60
38
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@CardiacTabib
39
Followers - content of tweets
Renal Surgeon
Male
@father64699029
40
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@abolfazl_hm
41
n.m.: 55904
Renal Surgeon
Male
@aliboskabady
42
Followers - content of tweets
Eye Surgeon
Male
@mojtaba81305517
43
Followers - content of tweets
Endocrinologist
Female
@Drabandokht
44
Followers - content of tweets
General Physician
Male
@sarmadnou
45
n.m.: 129153
Ophthalmologist
Male
@abdulrahimami11
46
Followers - content of tweets
Urologist
Male
@monsoeursepehr
47
n.m.: 118864
General Physician
Male
@mahdiarSaeedian
48
Followers - content of tweets
General Surgeon
Male
@usiriss
49
n.m.: 161611
General Physician
Female
@Kamranifaeze1
50
Conclusion
With the expansion of the virtual space, the presence of doctors for protecting their authority, constructing meaning, and maintaining change in social intersubjectivity is inevitable. This presence is a shift from a monologue communication, neglecting and not listening, to dialogue with oneself, threatening others, and limiting the power of medicine. In a metaphoric sense, the physicians were, in their cultural and historical genealogy, the inhabitants of impenetrable fortresses whose doors were closed to outsiders. The hegemony of medicine entwined with myth, magic, and metaphysical matter had made the physician needless to speak out himself. With the advent of social changes and the demystification and desanctification of medicine and the physician, however, the foundations of the fortress trembled, and the physician was summoned to the center. He should have come down from his castle to an equal footing with others to narrate his medical lifeworld and himself. The expansion of the virtual space has led to the formation of the network society which is an accessible, non-hierarchical, intimate, and equal space against the traditional society. Talking of himself in the virtual space and criticizing medicine in the intersubjectivity of Iranian society, the physician attempts to preserve his authority while at the same time presenting a more real image of himself to give a diverse, varied image of medicine that dismantles the traditional homogenized image.
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.
Sociology
Fatemeh Havasbeigi
Abstract
The purpose of the current research is to identify the components of national cohesion for use in the content of textbooks. The research paradigm is interpretive, the approach is qualitative, the research strategy is qualitative content analysis and the field of study includes teachers and experts. A ...
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The purpose of the current research is to identify the components of national cohesion for use in the content of textbooks. The research paradigm is interpretive, the approach is qualitative, the research strategy is qualitative content analysis and the field of study includes teachers and experts. A semi -structural interview was used to collect information. The sampling method is purposeful and continued until the theoretical saturation stage, and interviews were conducted with 14 experts and 18 teachers. The data format was based on audio and for data analysis two steps of open and axial coding were used. In the first step, the coding of 451 initial code and 87 sub -categories were obtained. In the second stage of coding, 16 main categories were obtained after categorization. The extracted categories are: language homogeneity, diversity in introducing celebrities, Territorial symbols, legitimizing cultural pluralism, rethinking and writing women's texts, strengthening trust, distributive justice, Merit based, strengthening national identity, paying attention to multicultural economy, introducing ancient artifacts, political legitimacy, redefining educational policy, strengthening National-transnational compatibility, creating social security, and reforming media policy. Based on the findings, the necessity of a review and a more comprehensive look at the structure of national cohesion is felt.
Women Studies
Somayeh Shafiee
Abstract
In the light of the constitutionalist discourse, women activists entered the field in line with aspiration of constitutionalism and challenged the dominant gender order by entering the public sphere. The present study focuses on the women mobilization for fundraising and seeks to clarify its dimensions ...
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In the light of the constitutionalist discourse, women activists entered the field in line with aspiration of constitutionalism and challenged the dominant gender order by entering the public sphere. The present study focuses on the women mobilization for fundraising and seeks to clarify its dimensions through the method of documentary analysis.Findings are presented and analyzed in five categories: donation spending, motivations, mechanisms, participants' characteristics, and women's collective action strategies. The purpose of collecting donations was to help the families of the Constitutional warrior also the accumulation of initial input to establish the National Bank. All was based on the patriotic motives of women for national independence. This feminine collective also action reflects the formulation of the identity politics of activists who suffered from discriminatory relations and gender stereotypes and sought opportunities for social participation in mobilization. Being unemployed and lack income, women used tactics such as donating gifts, selling personal property, and allocating dowry to provide resources for mobilization. Women's participation from different socio-economic backgrounds has given a supra-class dimension to mobilization. Avoiding consumerism, calling for solidarity, and financing through alternative means such as charity have been the main strategies of the actors encountering available resources, constraints, and barriers.
Morteza Parvizan; Jafar Hezarjaribi
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the type of interpretation of domestic violence by domestic violence and the type of exposure to domestic violence. Researchers have semi-structured interviews with thirty women who had previously been subjected to domestic violence, considering the field of interest ...
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The present study aimed to investigate the type of interpretation of domestic violence by domestic violence and the type of exposure to domestic violence. Researchers have semi-structured interviews with thirty women who had previously been subjected to domestic violence, considering the field of interest (economic, cultural and social), and after conducting interviews in the dominant text, using the qualitative approach of encoded theorem theory Concepts and mining of central issues. . After examining the variety of women's perceptions of domestic violence and interviewing, most of the concepts related to the category of "physical violence" were "emotional violence" financial violence, which is also explained by the variables underlying the researchers' point of view, so that many Women who had reacted in the face of domestic violence had low education, poor support networks, high adherence to cultural traditions and rural and marginalized villages, and more physical and financial violence against women. This is evident the need to assign a different type of service The psychological and cultural support organizations are in these areas.
Gholamreza Latifi
Abstract
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Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Khoei
Abstract
The notion of ‘Discourse’ is among key concepts which have been used widely by scholars in social sciences research. Discourse analysis contains many forms which all are influenced by Michel Foucault’s theoretical considerations. One of the main approaches in discourse analysis is the ...
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The notion of ‘Discourse’ is among key concepts which have been used widely by scholars in social sciences research. Discourse analysis contains many forms which all are influenced by Michel Foucault’s theoretical considerations. One of the main approaches in discourse analysis is the Post-Structural one. Lacalu and Moufe, have formed one of the most important approaches to discourse analysis under post-structuralism. The most common criticism of their approach is that it is not methodological. In this paper, it has been tried to elaborate the methods of producing texts which demonstrate the identity of those surveyed in a post-structural discourse analysis. The main aim of this article is to argue that the post-structural discourse analysis contains both theory and method within. To do so, linkages among the theoretical concepts have been stablished to elaborate how we can use abstract notions of ‘Discourse Theory’ in order to present concrete contextual analysis. It also has been elaborated that the consequence of such analysis is a demonstration of the possibility of social changes. The current paper is a description of the methods that are most proper to reach people surveyed.
Sociology
Abdul Reza Navah; karim rezadoost; said moidfar; narges khoshkalam
Abstract
With the emphasis on social distancing, the outbreak of Corona caused social interactions within ethnic contexts to undergo changes in terms of quantity and quality. Based on this, the current research is focused on the phenomenology of the lived experience of Borujerd city speakers of social interactions ...
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With the emphasis on social distancing, the outbreak of Corona caused social interactions within ethnic contexts to undergo changes in terms of quantity and quality. Based on this, the current research is focused on the phenomenology of the lived experience of Borujerd city speakers of social interactions after facing the outbreak of Corona. The current phenomenological research has used the Moustakas technique to analyze the data. The number of 16 samples was selected purposefully and until theoretical saturation, and the data was collected by in-depth interview method. Collaborative observation (10 field observations) was also used to collect more data. Based on the results of coding and field data analysis, the concept of "post-corona ethnic interaction" includes 8 main clusters, which are: 1)the opportunity to find human agency, 2)the socialization of interaction, 3)the continuity of ethnic members, 4 )the digitalization of interaction, 5)the scientific-rationalization of the epistemic base of interaction, 6)the purposeful interaction, 7)the hyper-digitalization of interaction, and 8)the appearance of the role of inhuman agency. In general, the threat of Corona has acted as a shock that has provided the opportunity for the members of the ethnic community of Lak to express their individuality.