JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Year:2020 | Volume:6 | Issue:14|Papers Count:12

This article primarily aims to examine the urban neighborhoods’ identity of with emphasis on the sense of belonging to the place. The case of present study includes thirteen neighborhoods in Ardebil city. The research findings presented and discussed in this article are based on a survey, which includes 400 males and females. According to the results of this study based on the path analysis, the bottom-line conclusion supports two key patterns: first, the sense of belonging to the place is significantly and positively associated with both social solidarity and social interaction variables. Second, the variables of social participation, responsibility and knowledge do not play significant role in the sense of belonging to the place.

The contemporary literature still lacks sufficient research-based evidence on satellite series, their implicit and gradual influences on the culture and social life of the audience. In order to contribute filling this research gap, a wide range of questions are required to be considered. For instance, what is the cultural strategy of these satellite series? This study primarily aims to contribute filling this research gap with specific reference to the association between the satellite series and the family. Theoretically, this study is based on the Gramscian theory of hegemony, the theory of planting and the theory of highlighting. Methodologically, the present study relies on the content analysis (the latent theme) of the Turkish popular satellite series named ‘ Lilac Life’ . The research results show that the series highlights elements such as romantic-sexual relations, illegitimate relationship, having an illegitimate child, betrayal of the spouse, divorce and numerous unstable marriages. The series seeks to expand and promote this through mocking the viewers’ cultural beliefs and imposing them a new synthesis. In conclusion, the cultural strategy adopted in this satellite series was the elimination of family authenticity.

Civil associations, as the foundations of democratic social order, play a significant role in the deconstruction of social categorization. This research article attempts to assess the experience and discerning of women of participation in civil institutions. This research employs the grounded theory. Methodologically, it is based on semi-structured interview with women who have the participation experience in civil institutions. The results of this research showed that the participation of women in civil institutions is contingent on the resources in their disposal and on their lived experiences; which in turn determines the extent of participation. In the meantime, self-redefining and self-rebuilding, development of civil ethics, the expansion of social solidarity and responsibility served as facilitators, whereas social disembeddedness, the de-contextualizing and de-temporalizing of femininity, and strengthening the creation of social opportunities being interveners. The semantic reconstruction of women’ s experience and understanding of social action implies the policy of the presence and sanctification of women's activism, efficiency, inner call, alleviating problems of life, and cultural subjection of femininity. Women’ s social actions in civil institutions are associated with a wide range of social, personal, and cultural consequences which falls under the category of empowering-structured core.

The purpose of this research is to study the impact of globalization in cultural dimension of national identity. This is a descriptive-analytical study that was carried out with a survey method. The survey includes 404 pre-university students in Babol. These male and females students were selected on the basis of the stratified random sampling method. The present analysis holds a wide range of independent variables such as the usage of TV, satellite, mobile, internet, photo, music, cinema, and café net. According to the results of this study, there is a statistically significant and inverse relationship between these independent variables and the national identity sense. This, however, does not apply to the TV usage. Moreover, the results show that there is the most inverse correlation between the use of cinema, film, and mobile with the national identity of students. Also, the results of structural equations using Lister’ s software indicate that independent external media, artistic tools and cultural space, with a coefficient of 0. 40, 0. 52, 0. 38, can predict the students’ national identity sense.

If we see change in lifestyle as a way of reflection on people's values and attitudes, we can better understand individual differences in attitudes toward uncontested divorce, which is a kind of redefinition of traditional divorce. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between lifestyle and attitude towards uncontested divorce. Methodologically, the research findings presented and discussed in this pare are based on a survey, which includes 400 males and females aged 18 years and older in Rasht City. Research findings showed that there is a significant correlation between the dimensions of lifestyle compromised of cultural consumption, body management and media consumption with the tendency towards uncontested divorce. This suggests that a stronger tendency towards uncontested divorce are more likely to happen among those holding the higher levels of cultural consumption, body management practices and media consumption. In addition, the results indicated that while the background variables of age, sex, and marital status are held constant in the analysis, the intensity of this relationship becomes. This also means that the relationship between lifestyle variables and the tendency towards uncontested divorce tend to be greater amongst those who are married and aged 44-year and over.

Babolsar City has changed rapidly during the recent years. These changes are similar to losing the long-standing memorial places. Collective memory can play an important role in the feeling of belonging to the place. The existence of abandoned buildings in the city indicates a disorder in collective memory and in the acute form it represents forgetting. From this perspective, the present study has focused on abandoned buildings in the city in order to explore the major determinants of the collective forgetting of these memorial buildings. Methodologically, this study is based on a combination of documentary and historical approaches and oral history. It also relies on the theories developed by Crinson and Cannerton. According to the results of this study, although the reminding harsh order and tyranny are significantly important determinants, they cannot still provide a comprehensive explanation. For instance, other relevant determinants such as the foreigners’ dominance and the lack of financial and service benefits for the last 40 years contribute for a more comprehensive explanation.

The cohabitation is an emerging form of the family of the world in which commitment is also a challenging concept. In terms of method and theory, this research employs a qualitative approach and the grounded theory. The research findings presented and discussed in this paper is based on interviewing with a sample of 18 cohabitating individuals in Isfahan City. The results of this study have indicated that not only commitment is not simply a concept with stable and absolute meaning, but also it varies significantly by such determinants as time passage, the place and conditions which understood within the moral virtues’ framework and moral levels. Furthermore, the commitment typology in cohabitation contains a spectrum ranging from the conventional ethics to post-conventional ethics. Finally, the research results presented and discussed in this paper support the bottom-line conclusion that the term and concept of commitment in the cohabitation has widespread, multi-faceted, relative and unstable meaning, leading to the fact that no general rules can apply to this emerging form of the family so-called cohabitation in the contemporary societies.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the components of political socialization have been represented through the school-textbooks in Iran. In terms of research data and method, the research results presented and discussed in this paper are based on the method of content analysis on the revisited textbooks of Sociology in the high-school level. Using William Scott's method, the components of political socialization have been measured by the representation of major terms including republicanism, tolerance, political legitimacy, political identity, critical pedagogy, social justice, political values of the Islamic revolution, economics, and good governance. According to the research findings of this analysis, three main patterns can be addressed: First, the most visible components of political socialization represented in the textbooks are the religious-political identity and political values of the Islamic Revolution, which have been inspired through the otherness and ideological critique of the Western political identities. Second, the textbooks are overwhelmingly allocated to represent the political and ideological elements of the Islamic Revolution of Iran; an approach which have neglected the elements of good governance and republicanism. Finally, the underlying conclusion of these research findings refers to the fact that the political values of the Islamic Revolution have been more significantly represented in the textbooks that its social and economic values.

The purpose of this study is to describe the students' lived experience of the hidden curriculum in high school. The key research questions are: What is the meaning of hidden curriculum for students? , How do they experience it? , and How do they evaluate its impacts on themselves? Methodologically, this study uses the method of qualitative research with specific reference to the technique of interviews with the students. The student’ s responses to these questions have been analyzed using the method of thematic analysis, which resulted in the extraction of these themes: teaching social skills, individual skills, knowing and understanding others, recognizing and fulfilling oneself, competing with others, obeying and the sense of being powerless. These provide the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the experiences of high school students with the schools’ hidden curriculum. Finally, this study used the dichotomies that were created in the minds of students through these hidden instructions. In conclusion, these research findings showed that these teachings have such negative effects as continuous anxiety and the emergence of dual identities.

Family solidarity plays an important role in the social development. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of power distribution structure on family solidarity. This study has measured the concept of power distribution structure in three major domains: symmetric relation, area of power, and the way of exercising power. In addition the family solidarity was measured in six aspects: associational, emotional, consensual, functional, achieving the goals and normative aspects. The research findings presented and discussed in this paper are based on a survey which includes 600 married women in Shiraz City. The results of this study have indicated that there is a significantly positive relationship between democratic structure and family solidarity and its subscales. Furthermore, the results emphasize the fact that decision-making and power process pattern in a family have a significant effect on family stability. Therefore, it is suggested that family conform to social changes, adopt the new order and institutionalize the structure of democratic and participatory power in the family. In order to leading to this end, it is vitally important to maintain the culture and identity of the Iranian community.

Trust is one of the most significant factors of social capital theory that indicates the importance of social relationships. While the existing literature in Iran is predominantly based the society-centered approach, the institution-centered approach has received a little attention. The present study contributes to filling this gap in the existing literature. Methodologically, the research findings presented and discussed in this paper are based on a questionnaire-based survey, which includes 384 individuals aged 5-65 years old in Shiraz. The data have been analyzed with IBM SPSS. Cronbach's alpha of the indicators is above 0. 7. According to the research findings, an individual’ s attitude toward the quality and performance of governmental institutions explains 54% of trust variable changes. Furthermore, the findings confirm that social trust is positively impacted by such determinants as the security feeling, institutional trust, attitude toward truth-telling, attitude toward promise-keeping and attitude toward fairness. However, the findings of this study do not support a significant impact of attitude toward solidarity variable on social trust.

University students alike other human and social groups encounter certain pressures due to their role. According to the literature of strain theories, increasing strain is associated with the increased likelihood of deviant or criminal behavior. The purpose of this article is to present and localize policies and programs to reduce students’ deviant behaviors based on political implications of strain theories. This paper employs a sociological perspective and relies on a documentary method in order to addressing theoretical concepts and issues and policy implications of strain theories, and programs implemented resulting from these implications in other countries. For reducing students’ deviant behaviors the policy implications of strain theories, in three levels: micro, middle, and macro levels, and the proposed programs inspired by these policies, in three categories: short, medium, and long-term, have been localized and presented. Given the conditions and how these programs are implemented, and given the indigenous conditions within the country, with greater confidence, policymakers are able to implement proper policy and present effective crime prevention programs. This also leads to saving money, time and resources and to increase efficiency.