S. Abolhassan Ryazi; Banou Dokht Najafianpour
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The purpose of the present research was to study socio-cultural and psychological effective factors contributing to suicide, as well as comparing these factors among Iranian and Tajik women who attempted suicide. The present study was a qualitative study in which 60 patients (30 from each ...
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The purpose of the present research was to study socio-cultural and psychological effective factors contributing to suicide, as well as comparing these factors among Iranian and Tajik women who attempted suicide. The present study was a qualitative study in which 60 patients (30 from each country) participated. Each of these participants went through an in-depth interview. Results of the study showed that the most important factors considering suicide attempt in both groups were as follows: domestic violence, cultural induction, family cold relations, forced marriages, too much responsibility, lack of privacy, polygamy, irrational biases and lack of communication between generations. Tajik men, despite the law of monogamy, prefer polygamy and marry more than one woman. Tajik people also, prohibit burring body of a woman who is dead after a suicide atempt in Muslim cemetery.
Sayyed Abolhassan Riazi
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Since today’s consumer culture is regarded as the main characteristic of modern culture, and the Iranian society’s culture, as a result of influential cultural exchanges, is considered a culture in transition to the modern state, providing an image of the consumer culture of the Iranian society ...
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Since today’s consumer culture is regarded as the main characteristic of modern culture, and the Iranian society’s culture, as a result of influential cultural exchanges, is considered a culture in transition to the modern state, providing an image of the consumer culture of the Iranian society can contribute to a careful analysis of its transition from the traditional society to a modern society. In the present article, the data from the national survey on cultural inclinations and social attitudes, which dealt with leisure time activities in Iran, has been analyzed using secondary analysis method. Since the patterns of leisure time activities are among the main components of consumer culture, attempt has been made to present a critical portrait of the consumer culture of Iranian society, through typologies and secondary classifications of the data from the aforesaid survey. The statistical universe of the research, whose data has been used in the present article, includes all the cities and villages in Iran. The sample was collected using multi-stage cluster method. Finally, the result of the analysis of the collected data indicated that the pattern of leisure time activities can be divided into six groups, each of which denotes a certain form of consumer culture in the Iranian society.
