Sociology
K. Keshavarz
Abstract
Students play a vital role in determining the future of their country, and in the case of Iran, their mental state with regard to hope and despair in planning their future has an impact on the Iranian society. For years, hope and concern about the future and the feeling of futureless Iranian society ...
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Students play a vital role in determining the future of their country, and in the case of Iran, their mental state with regard to hope and despair in planning their future has an impact on the Iranian society. For years, hope and concern about the future and the feeling of futureless Iranian society are the issues that have attracted thinkers, politicians and social activists. This article tries how to focus on the formation of hopeful or hopeless mindset of students in the prevailing constitutions in contemporary Iran. The research is qualitative in nature where interviews have been conducted with 26 female and male students from public universities in Tehran using a semi-structured questionnaire. The thematic analysis method was used for the acquired data. In this article, Ghassan Hage, a Lebanese-Australian anthropologist's conceptualization of societies as "mechanisms of production and distribution of hope" is used. The findings show that collective hope an important part is absent among research participants; they, due to the existence of systematic discrimination, are excluded from the circle of production and distribution of hope. One of the consequences of social despair among the research participants is their desire to migrate outside of Iran. Since the economic, political and social obstructions fuel the spread of social despair among the participants, the recognition of social movements and the openness of governing institutions to the economic, social and political demands of the people and efforts to fulfill these demands can help spread social hope in the community. The results of this research can deepen our view on the issue of hope among all sections of the society.
Higher Education
Kh. Keshavarz
Abstract
The findings of the article show that despite the long history of women as faculty members in higher education in Iran, we face a continuing gender gap among faculty members. Also, the higher we go up the ladder of professional hierarchy in the university, the stronger this gap becomes. The central question ...
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The findings of the article show that despite the long history of women as faculty members in higher education in Iran, we face a continuing gender gap among faculty members. Also, the higher we go up the ladder of professional hierarchy in the university, the stronger this gap becomes. The central question in this article is what challenges women face in entering the career of teacher-researcher and what is their narrative through this path in the midst of existing gender relations? This article will also address the facilitators as well as the barriers to achieving this career from the perspective of female teacher-researchers. The approach of this research is qualitative. Among the various techniques used in qualitative research to obtain the information required in this article, we have used the in-depth interview technique and in data analysis we have used thematic analysis. To achieve a more accurate understanding of the entry of women into university professional life, we have selected the two universities of Tehran and the Persian Gulf. According to the participants of the research, discriminatory attitudes towards women are seen in some of the applicant recruitment sessions. Existence of meta-academic criteria in recruitment sessions, constant change of bylaws and decisions, as well as men's lobbies are among the difficulties of entering the academic career. Some of the issues that women refer to as recruitment difficulties may be common to both men and women, but it should be noted that in the midst of existing gender relations, even common issues between men and women take on a different form and shape for each.
