A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG ELITES’ STATUS IN IRAN

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ROHANI ALI; ANBARLOU MASOUD

Title

A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG ELITES’ STATUS IN IRAN

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ROHANI ALI | ANBARLOU MASOUD | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

ELITESQ1

BRAIN DRAINQ1

GROUND THEORYQ1

SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTQ2

Abstract

Introduction: The developed western societies have largely been indebted to the ELITES because their development is provided by ELITES’ activities and dynamics. Today, the SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT and growth of these courtiers is increasingly proliferated, leading to the hegemonic dominance of these countries in the world. This scientific dominance is applied by dynamic research and development entities, universities, and institutions that their main actors are the scientific ELITES. The human capital flight or BRAIN DRAIN are the concepts that in economics and sociology have been respectively presented to describe this process. The process increasingly profits one party and impairs the other party. This process is very frightening for Iran. Annually, 150-180 thousands of educated Iranians leave the country; insofar as Iran has been at forefront of BRAIN DRAIN in recent years. This statistic means that annually 150 billion dollars have been going out from Iran (Faraji Dana, 20013). This means that around 25% of Iranian post-graduate students live in other countries (Abdullahi, 2016). Such a complicated situation simply strengthens the core countries and weakens the peripheral countries. Meanwhile, different groups of thinkers from different scientific fields have tried to investigate the issue of elite immigration (why and how). But the main reference group i.e. the ELITES of the country has not been studied. Instead, the travel and immigration agencies, the students as a whole, language learning centers and so on have been considered by researchers. In other words, the real and formal ELITES and top talented students almost have not been studied at all.In fact, what has been neglected is why ELITES leave the country even after being supported by National Elite Foundation. In other words, why the ELITES tend to leave the country despite the supports provided by National Elite Foundation and why Iran is at the forefront of BRAIN DRAIN in the world. The reason of this lies in deep and qualitative interviews. In other words, the mentality of the elite and top talented Iranians should be scrutinized and their experiences about professional and social life in Iranian society should be studied in detail. In fact, by recognizing their mentality accurately, it can be possible to understand their arguments and reasons about life, work, and activity in Iran. Accordingly, the main question and issue of this problem is: what is the ELITES’ understanding of their position in the social system of Iran and how and from which social processes, this understanding is constructed.Material and Methods: The methodology of the current research is configured based on the interpretative paradigm. In this regard, the current research is selected the qualitative methodology. In addition, based on the answers to the research questions and goals, the GROUND THEORY strategy is used to design the methodology. This method tries to produce or discover the theory in order to achieve a great degree of description. In the current research, the objectivism approach of Strauss and Corbin (2011) will be used. The sampling of current research is based on the chain and purposive sampling. In this regard, it is attempted to select the statistical society from Olympiad students, top national students, top graduates, national and global inventors, active and experienced top talented students, etc. By using deep and semi-deep interview techniques, the process of data collection was continued based on the theoretical sampling to achieve theoretical saturation and interviews were conducted with 11 participants. In the process of data analysis, the line-by-line analysis was used for open coding and with the development of concepts and categories, the axial coding and selective coding were used.Discussion of results and conclusions: The paradigmatic model of research shows the flow of processes and activities that have happened in the context of the research. This model consists of 5 parts: causal conditions, ground conditions, intervening conditions, strategies, and consequences. The central phenomenon is placed on the center of research and the activities are formed around it. The flow of processes and activities that have happened in the context of this research shows that the central phenomenon of the research is the experience of undesirable position and unfavorable and unpredictable situation. In other words, the participants of the research think that their position is undesirable and the situation of the country is unfavorable for scientific, economic, cultural and political work and activity. In addition, they have assessed the conditions governing the country unpredictable that make impossible any planning even at the short term. So their mental and objective experience about their position and country situation was an undesirable position and an unfavorable and unpredictable situation. As a result of this mental and objective experience, they have attempted to use some strategies. In addition, other factors had also been effective on their experiences and strategies that have created some consequences. This flow of processes and activities is described in the paradigmatic chart of the research. The causal conditions of the research are: 1. Living in Iranian society; 2. Many conflicts in educational, scientific, career, cultural, political, ideological and belief institutions. The contextual conditions of the research include: 1. the developed expectations of ELITES; 2. The feeling of having a desirable position for themselves and their family; 3. Having an active, smart and pushing mentality; 4. Imagining themselves as strong and able to make changes in society in the form of unique ideas; 5. The great social and cultural capital of ELITES and communicating with other ELITES. The intervening conditions are: 1. The inappropriate situation of the country; 2. The unfavorable situation of the business, career cultural and political activities of ELITES; 3. Ideological and belief-based assessments for job priorities; 4. High education of ELITES; 5. Heavy use of virtual social networks and media and comparing the ELITES of other countries with themselves. The strategies of the participants in the research include: 1. Continual group activities such as cultural and social activities in work groups, research institutions, etc.; 2. Different individual activities such as individual and non-supported attempts to design, register, produce and distribute the inventions, speeches in the presence of officials, etc. The consequences resulting from utilizing the different strategies and actions of participants can be outlined as follows: 1. Personal successes; 2. Losing ELITES; 3. Leaving the country (brain drain).

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ROHANI, ALI, & ANBARLOU, MASOUD. (2018). A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG ELITES’ STATUS IN IRAN. JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIOLOGY, 29(2 (70) ), 93-112. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/154891/en

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ROHANI ALI, ANBARLOU MASOUD. A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG ELITES’ STATUS IN IRAN. JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIOLOGY[Internet]. 2018;29(2 (70) ):93-112. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/154891/en

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ALI ROHANI, and MASOUD ANBARLOU, “A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG ELITES’ STATUS IN IRAN,” JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIOLOGY, vol. 29, no. 2 (70) , pp. 93–112, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/154891/en

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A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF YOUNG ELITES’ STATUS IN IRAN