NAMEH-YE OLUM-E EJTEMAI
Year:2004 | Volume:11 | Issue:3 (23)|Papers Count:14

Bourdieu is a multidimensional theorist and methodologist whose goal is to transcend the traditional dualities of sociology - subjectivism versus objectivism, symbolism versus materialism, structure versus action. and micro versus macro analysis. This article analyzes Bourdieus views as well as his sources. The article first discusses Bourdieus structuralist approach and then some of his main concepts such as habitus, les champs, and symbolic capital.

This article analyzes the relationship between socioeconomic background and academic and career success among University of Tehran graduates in agriculture. Socioeconomic background variables used in this study included parents educational attainment, parents jobs, rural origin, and fathers agricultural origin. Academic success was measured by grade point average in the last year of high school, grade point average for bachelors degree, acceptance to graduate school, and overall undergraduate performance. Career success was measured according to employers opinion. A total of 655 graduates and 513 employers responded to the questionnaire survey. Regression analysis provides a number of insights. In particular, no relationship was established between rural and agricultural background and academic and career success, rural background.

Repatriation of Afghan refugees residing in Iran has become a major concern for Iranian authorities. This article attempts to establish a typology of Afghan refugees in Iran and identify factors affecting their voluntary repatriation. It is based on the findings from a survey of 400 Afghan refugee families conducted in Golshahr, Mashhad. The study shows that, notwithstanding Afghanistans security concerns, voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees is a function of the weakness or strength of their social ties to the countries of origin and destination. Years of living"in Iran and developing various tangible (economic) and non-tangible ties to the host countrymay have weakened Afghan refugees ties to their places of origin.

This article discusses the relationship between sociology and literature in the Iranian context of the experience of modernity with its two sides of modernization and modernism. It employs the method of content analysis to examine the works of Al-e Ahmad. Hedayat Dowlatabadi. and Darvishian. Through this. the article concludes that the experience of modernity did have a balanced nature in its initial stages that was lost in later periods.

Persuasion is an ultimate goal of communication, especially when we have mass communication in mind. Persuasion takes on various forms, including propaganda, publicity, and advertisement. We often think of the whole process of communication as useless, if we are unable to persuade. In contrast, when our audience accepts an idea, thought, or opinion, we think s/he will effectively propagate it. For these reasons, in the process of persuasion, we often tap into a great number of resources. This paper focuses on the concept of persuasion as well as its main conditions and its context. Within the framework of media pluralism, the paper also discusses the issues of scarcity of attention and economy of attention.

This paper analyzes the relationship between family structure and social participation as two key social science concepts. It first discusses the origins and development of the two concepts to place them within the larger framework of social science theory. The paper then examines the relationship between family structure and social participation in the Iranian city of Kashan, finding a strong correlation between them.

As a first stage in the planning process, this article attempts to establish development rankings for the cities and counties of the Golestan Province. Taxonomy analysis determines the level of development by integrating various criteria or indices. This study focuses on 16 cities and 9 counties of the province by analyzing a number of indexes such as housing and construction, infrastructure, cultural facilities, labor force, educational facilities, and employment. It ranks the cities and counties, identifies critical locations, and uses an inter-sectoral method to offer development recommendations.

The aim of this paper is to analyze entrepreneurship characteristics among Iranian humanities and social science graduates in the field of periodical production. The study included three main hypotheses and four subhypotheses. A total of 286 individuals were surveyed, all involved in periodical production activities. The study indicated a significant relationship between entrepreneurship and academic training, individual abilities and motivations, risk-taking, and creativity. The paper also argues in favor of increasing emphasis on the production of social/cultural periodicals as well as enhancing entrepreneurship among social science and humanities graduates to enhance the field.

This article introduces a theoretical framework for understanding the Iranian peoples desire for democracy. It begins with a discussion of four factors derived from the available sociological literature on theories of democracy that attempt to explain the desire for democracy. It then expounds on the methodology of R. Boudon. The article finally offers a combination approach which differentiates between contextual and push factors.

Increased tension among factory workers may have strong socioeconomic and perhaps political and security implications. Manufacturing plants in the Iranian Province of Mazandaran have experienced heightened levels of tension in recent times. This study attempts to identify some of the reasons behind these working-class tensions. Respondents in this study were drawn from 9 major factories selected randomly among all industrial units in the Province. A questionnaire was structured to deal with different variables such as: Age, Education, Salary, Job experience,job discrimination, etc.