JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY STUDIES
Year:2009 | Volume:1 | Issue:4|Papers Count:8

Discourse analysis, is an interdisciplinary approach that has its roots in linguistics. The term is used by “Zlykhrys" for the first time. The main goal of discourse analysis is to find the new technique in the study of texts, media, culture, science, politics, and society.The approach of critical discourse analysis is developmental of discourse analysis in linguistic studies which from individual and methodological points of view has upgraded the discourse analysis from description of texts to explanation level. In critical discourse analysis, the critique of ideology and power is considered more than the other types of discourse analysis. This article has sought the introduction of critical discourse analysis and the well-known theorists in this field.

In this brief article to the life and works of Jeffrey Alexander, the theoretical foundation and background of his thinking, ontology and philosophical anthropology, epistemology and methodology of this American sociologist has been considered.  Then, the major principles in his sociological theory which has been drawn from his studies in areas such as model of integrative and multidimensional theory, neofunctionalism, sociology, cultural and civil society has been discussed. At the end, the criticism of other sociologists to Alexander’s theory has been posed and the conclusions of the article were discussed.

The purpose of this study is to examine the social alienation of high school teachers in Tabriz. Research method is survey and statistical population of male and female high school teachers were 13247 in 1390-91 educational year. The proportional stratified sample was selected and Sample size of 373 was assessed using Cochran’s formula.Data collected using standard questionnaire of social alienation of Mlvynsymn and researcher-made questionnaire. In order to analyze data statistical methods of t and r Pearson are used. Results indicated that social alienation of 62.46 with the SD of 42.16 has been achieved in the medium. The results showed that social alienation based on marital status were significant the single teachers were more alienated. Also the relationship between alienation and academic certificate and teaching precedence was significant. But social alienation based on the job situation was not significant.

The present study was to determine the social factors related to the rate of crimes of women who were detained in Tabriz prison. Variables of social control, cultural poverty - precedence of delinquency in adolescence-precedence of previous offenses - violence against women at home and the unsuitable friends are the independent variables of the study. The variable was considered as the main research question is the extent of crime of women. The population consisted of 100 women prisoners of whom 79 were selected randomly according to Cochran’s formula. The design of the present study was co relational survey and the researcher-made questionnaire was used for collecting data. The results showed that crime rate in women are related to precedence of delinquency, a precedence of previous offenses and violence against them at home. But there is no relationship between social control, unsuitable friends and cultural poverty and the crime rate of women in Tabriz prison.

Social vitality is one of the necessary phenomenons in any society. To strengthen the elements of social development such as community of hope and social confidence, social vitality is very important. The purpose of this article is to find the amount of social vitality among Iranian tribes (Azeris, Kurds and Lurs).  The research was done in Tabriz, Nagadeh and shahre Kord. In examining the theoretical framework the researchers developed the assumptions on the basis of Blomer, Bourdieu and Durkheim. Using the Cochran formula, 450 were selected and the multistage cluster sampling and random sampling of were used to do this. The findings of the study show that social vitality varies among ethnic groups with the mean score of 90.21 and the Azeri has the greatest mean. The relationship between Social relation, local and national identity with social vitality were based and regression analysis showed that the local identity had the highest correlation with social vitality. Then, the national identity and the media had the highest correlation with the dependent variable. More importantly, however, value of 63.0 on the right side of the dependent variable represents the coefficient of determination that is known as psi and if this number is minused from 1, we determine the model coefficient (37.0). It means that 37% of the dependent variable explained by this model.

Today, management professionals use fault finding techniques for developing organization. Therefore, this paper has considered using a fault finding model of Vayzboard to identify strengths and weaknesses of the University of Isfahan. The methodology of research is Survey and the research tool is a questionnaire. The study sample included all administrative and teaching staff of Isfahan University (445) among which, 118 cases with Cochran formula and a stratified random sampling size selected. The results showed that among the dimensions of organizational fault finding of Vayzboard, the target dimension is in the low and the other dimensions are in the middle.Also among the variables, the “relationships and reward”, are the most effective in comparison to the other variables on the employees’ change. Finally, all the used independent variables could explain 50% of the changes of the dependent variables.

In this study, 200 teenagers of South and north Shariati streets in Khomeini shahr. The method of the study is a descriptive - co relational and therefore the researcher try to report everything without any intervention or subjective inference and reach to objective results. Family function test and identity test tools used in this study and the students were randomly selected. The results showed that there is 95% significant relationship between identity and family function.

This article is about the phenomenon of marginalization and delinquency, and it is also to provide practical social work solutions. Studies show that there is a relationship between social marginalization and crime and delinquency. Finally practical social workers solutions about local development presented in order to resolve the problems of social marginalization and thereby reducing crime and delinquency.