Culture-Communication Studies
Year:2016 | Volume:17 | Issue:33 (65)|Papers Count:8

This article attempts to study the contexts, reasons and consequences of feeling insecurity among women in urban public places. The field of study is urban public places in Sanandaj. A sample is selected by theoretical purposes sampling and they were interviewed by way of deep individual interviews. The findings show that feeling insecurity among women in urban public places is due to causes like “structural tensions” and “sociofobia” as well as circumstances such as “violent places” and “self representation”. Women also believe that their insecurity feelings are amplified by specific reasons and motivations visible in men words, behaviors and gestures. The most important of these reasons/motivations are: “appetence of relation” & “Frustration/aggression”. This Insecurity feeling of women has individual and collective consequences that made them to adopt “Precautionary actions”, such as secrecy and silence. These insecurity feelings are also visible in social level.

This article is based on academic research entitled “The Representation of Women in Gender Jokes” which aims to examine the representation of women in jokes. In this study, due to the subject's qualitative aspects, discourse analysis has been used. For this purpose, twenty gender jokes were selected out of more than a hundred cases and analyzed using the three-dimensional model of Norman Fairclough.The results showed that representation of women and girls in gender jokes is negative and ignoble compared to men and even boys. In these jokes, the representations of women are different to girls. Representation of women is affected by the stereotypes, traditional and patriarchal beliefs and partially media stereotypes. On the other hand, the representation of girls was largely influenced by media stereotypes. Also, the results reveal that the gender jokes have emerged from the patriarchy discourse and at the end lead to confirmation and reinforcement of this discourse.

Before gradual abstraction of some parts of Iran land, some countries like Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, & Afghanistan had been part of the Iran wide territories. The women traditional dress in the fore mentioned countries is identified with more Iranian identity than the women dress in Iran.Today dress of Tajik, Turkmen, Azeri, & Afghan women can be considered as live examples of Iranian ethnics dress. In this paper, in order to find the indexes & features of Iranian original -traditional dress of women, the traditional dress of fore mentioned countries have been studied. To find out the elements of Iranian original dress of women, the features of dress in these regions have been described.

In this paper, we aim to answer the question of how “divorce” is represented in Iranian movies produced during 1980s. The questions raised in the framework of representation theory. To answer the key question, 21 films which has been made in the decade of 1380, were studied through content analysis method. Thus, reverse questionnaire was prepared and films were analyzed basing on content analysis.Findings show that Iranian movies present kind of popular knowledge about social problems such as divorce in their narrations. The findings also show this assumption that Iranian films have basic information such as age and sex composition, social class, employment status information of divorced actor and actress and various information about their social and family relationships, attitudes and lifestyles. In addition, manufacturers often provide explanation of the divorce of their characters in their movies.

The study of shop signs is a research domain in the field of sociolinguistics, and scholars try to address the topic from different perspectives in order to provide a deeper insight to the language in use. The present study attempts to analyze the diverse linguistic patterns in Tabriz shop signs. First three areas, i.e. area A (affluent), area B (semi-affluent), and area C (poor) were located, and from each area, 300 names were collected.The findings indicate that from 900 shop signs, 78.3 percent use monolingual Persian names, and Turkish with just 6 percent of usage, works as a minor language in the naming process. The comparison of the three different areas, show that there is a relationship between the economic, social welfare and the use of varying linguistic patterns. It is also shown that in some businesses like clothing shops as well as restaurants, employing diverse linguistic patterns is a popular method to absorb higher number of customers. At the end of the article, the results of the present study are compared with the findings of other Iranian and non-Iranian contributions.

The main question in this research is whether changes in modern style of leisure (based on ICT) are related with Youth’s social capital? In this paper, we have focused on types of leisure styles, especially types of leisure’s Xu Qing. The research survey was conducted among 384 young people aged 15 to 29 years who were living in the district 5 of Tehran.The findings showed that using ICT tools to complete leisure, extends the social capital of young people in two dimensions, objective (membership and participation in groups, organizations, socialize and communications people) and a subjective dimension (trust people together in virtual spaces and confidence in cyberspace).On the other hand, the data show that if people use ICT tools in social activity while their leisure time, increases their social capital then when they use these tools on anti-social activities such as learning activities and so on.

The beliefs of Sufis and Dervishes have been one of the most controversial issues during Islamic history and caused numerous challenges and struggles between supporters and opposition groups of these beliefs. There were always some jurists and philosophers among opposition groups who have cited some shortcomings according to their point of views. Jurists’ views covered juridical issues while philosophers’ views emphasized on epistemological problems.In this article, Talebani Qadiriyya’s order as one of the main sects of Sufism has been reviewed through anthropological approach by analyzing their theological components and the relationship between their belief system and real world. The main concern of this article is laid upon what is Qadiriyya order? What kind of belief or value system it has? And how this order is reproduced or emerged in individual and social domains? The field research was done in “Vora” and “Najjar” villages in Oramanat Lehun near the Paveh. The research method is used in this article is participant observation, interviews and study of documents.

This study aims to examine the impact of information seeking behavior on the research performance of faculty members at Guilan University. For this purpose, using survey, 177 samples are selected; data has been collected through questionnaire with proper reliability and validity and are analyzed using regression method. The results showed that more than two-thirds of faculty members of Guilan University have not participated in training courses related to information seeking behavior. In addition, information seeking skill of more than 50 percent of the faculty members of Guilan University is in low level, 38 percent is on average level and 12 percent is in high level. Research performance of 28.8 percent of faculty members in this university is weak, 65.5% is in average level and 5.6 percent is at a good level. The results of multivariate regression analysis showed significant impact of education, information seeking skill and use of information seeking tools (with determination coefficient of 62.0) on research performance of faculty members at Guilan University.