Journal of National Studies
Year:2015 | Volume:16 | Issue:1 (61)|Papers Count:10

Cultural language in the Mashroute Constitution (1906) and its discourse is the main subject of this article, obviously the relation between language and politics in modern age is an important problem. The main idea of this article is that the main cause of political reading and wrong interpretations about language in modern age refers to “politicization” and “industrialization”.My interpretation about silence of Mashroute constitution about language (national language) is a clear evidence about consent of parliament and all of local associations on the natural stability or language (Farsi) continuity in Iran; as a national and common heritage to all Iranian.Here are the signs of postulating of Farsi as the national language in all documents and act of parliament; especially in constitution and other acts and documents such as the act of associations and local government (Eyalaty & Velayati).

This paper explores the challenges for Iranian education in dealing with culture of consumerism of the Neoliberalism. Methodologically, this paper bases on the qualitive research method, and uses analytic- descriptive method. For this, primarily consumerism culture is analyzed, then the challenges of this culture for Iranian education are investigated. Possessive individualism, commercialization, marketization, increasing competition, economy based on chance, and accountability (based on free market model) in cultural institution (audit culture); are some of the important ideological bases of the consumerism. Findings indicate that consumer culture of Neoliberalism, its materialist and greedy nature, possessive individualism, deprivation of the low-income class, luxury-seeking, reduction of human agency, competing for wealth creation, and the social valuation based of wealth; all of these make the major challenges for Iranian education. Revival of the Islamic consumption pattern, strengthening humanities for critique of the consumerism, and converging social institutions for reinforcement of the Iranian-Islamic Identity; are some suggestion for emancipation of the domination of consumerism culture.

Education system in each country is one of the most important components of culture and identity in the society. Therefore, strengthening of culture and national identity need to strengthen and reform in the National Education System. With this interpretation, the Article main question is: How is Iranian National Identity in the Document of Fundamental Transformation of the Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran? Research results show that the Iranian national identity at Document of Fundamental Transformation of Education in I.R.I, is a Combination of the three Dimensions: Islamic identity (Monotheism, Principles and Teachings of Islam, Pure Existence, Justice, Mahdaviat and Expectation, Enjoining and forbidding the evil, Trusteeship of the Jurisconsult, Veil and Modesty), Iranian identity (Native Development, National Unity, Farsi language, revolutionary and jihadist spirit, Cultural and Civilizational Heritage, National Anthem and National Flag, Fusion of Islam and Iran, Iran’s geography) and Modern Identity (New Technologies, Media, Foreign Language) which can lead to the National Solidarity among the students. However, studies show that the Islamic identity of the document has more prominence. The method used in this paper is content analysis.

In this article the effect of internet usage on national identity is studied. The main question is, whether there is a connection and correlation between each dimensions of internet usage and national identity of users. Secondary questions discuss the same question in the case of each dimensions of national identity. In this conceptual model, religious identity as an intervener variable is considered. The researchers have used the field researching method with the help of questionnaire accessory for quantitative part. The enquiry questionnaire has been distributed between 320 students of Islamic azad university, science and research branch of Tehran. The results of data analysis in testing of main assumptions has shown there is a complete Bivariate correlation between amount of internet usage and cognitive dimension of users’ national identity with intensity of 0.119 in positive direction. There are positive correlation coefficients between duration of internet usage and behavioral and cognitive dimensions of users’ national identity. For informational aspect of usage, with national identity, positive correlation and for communicational aspect and entertainment aspect, negative correlation has been gained.

The social well-being is the main part of social welfare and the culture of citizenship is important variable that effects on social well-being. The aim of the present study is exploring of relationship between social well-being and culture of citizenship in women and men.Using the survey method, a sample of 300 was selected from three zones (1, 8 and 16) in Tehran. Samples selected through Quota random sampling among 22 zones in Tehran. The instrument that employed in this research was Keyes (2004) social well-being inventory. Three indices of social belonging, norms and values were used in order to measure culture of citizenship.The finding showed that, there was significant relationship between culture of citizenship and social well-being. The finding of multiple regression showed that social belonging, values of culture of citizenship and zone of residence, explained 0/14 percent of variance of social well-being.

This research is about social consensus and study of effective factors on it in dehdasht city (A city in Kohkiloieh and Boier Ahmad state). Population aged 15 years and above, a sample size of 382 persons, used multistage cluster sampling method, research is survey and questionnaire is an instrument that used to data collection. The hypothesis examination results have shown social participation, specific social confidence, general social confidence, social confidence generalized and social economic status have direct and meaningful relation with dependent variable. Also, sense of anomie2, fatalism, sense of comparative deprivation have reverse and meaningful relation with the social consensus. Regeration and analysis results have shown variables used in this investigation explain 37 persent of dependent variable variance and social participation has the most role in variance explanation of the social consensus.

In Islamic civilization, the Jame mosques in addition to be as the main factor of cities formation, they also determine overall pattern of the cities and common identity. The model & formation of the great mosques were conducted based on world population in each city. But today, the outer face of urban elements and thus urban space doesnot reflect the identity of the city’s residents, also, we donot see identity elements in the new cities. But, in the historic city of Yazd, the Jame Mosque is still considered as a symbol of physical and spiritual identity of the city for the citizens. In this article, which was written based on descriptive and analytical methods and data collection techniques are Library and field methods, The main question is: Has the architecture of the Jame Mosque of Yazd been effective in creating a sense of place and identity in Yazd? According to the findings of this research the mosque architecture, especially in the direction of locating the building, the qualitative features of the building components such as materials, colors, using different symbols and Etc. has been effective in identifying the urban space of Yazd.

This article analyzes the sources cited in articles published in the Journal of National Studies. The research method is citation analysis, and data analysis was performed using Excel software. The review of the subject scattering showed more than half the articles (50.41 percent), the issue of “national identity” has been discussed. The books with 6820 citations and journal articles with over 2234 citations were more than from other sources. Among the cited sources of the Persian, 68.47 percent of the books were written and 31.52 percent were translation. Also, 93.82 percent (1489) of the Persian journals articles were written and 6.17 percent (98 cases) have been translation. The highest cited author and translator were respectively, Anthony Giddens with 82 and Mohsen Salasi with 51 citations. The highest cited books in Persian and English were “Modernity and Distinction” and “Social Identity”, respectively, with 31 and 9 citations. The highest cited journals in English and Persian were “National Studies” and the “Journal of Personality and Social Psychology”, respectively, with 345 and 11 citations.