Art and Aestetics
A. Mahmoodi; M. Hasanpour; S. Khataie
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Murals are a kind of environmental graphic designs which in addition to adding to the environment’s beauty play a significant role in shaping the visual identity of the cities and due to their structural features are widely used in subway stations. Metro environment is one of the most crowded places ...
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Murals are a kind of environmental graphic designs which in addition to adding to the environment’s beauty play a significant role in shaping the visual identity of the cities and due to their structural features are widely used in subway stations. Metro environment is one of the most crowded places in today’s modern life which has a substantial impact on the society’s cultural and identity changes. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the status and role of environmental graphics as a powerful medium in fashioning and influencing the city’s visual identity as well as its role in the revival of culture, art, and national and local identity. To this aim, 70 murals of Tehran subway stations were selected and analyzed quantitatively with respect to different dimension of national identity as well as different components of its cultural dimension. Finally, the data were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively based on their content and structure. The data related to theoretical part of the study were gathered through library method and using the existing documents and information and the data associated with the analytical part of the study were collected through field research and employing observational tools.
Intercultural Communications
Amir Rastegar Khaled; Masood Salmani Bidgoli Salmani Bidgoli
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The article investigates different forms of acculturation (integration, ethnic, national and diffuse) and adaptation (psychological and sociocultural) and their relations among Kurdish youth. The research uses survey methods. Research census is people between ages 18 and 29 in Kermanshah and Javanroud ...
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The article investigates different forms of acculturation (integration, ethnic, national and diffuse) and adaptation (psychological and sociocultural) and their relations among Kurdish youth. The research uses survey methods. Research census is people between ages 18 and 29 in Kermanshah and Javanroud cities in Kermanshah province. To analyze the data we used a person approach (cluster analysis) and variable approach (explanatory factor analysis and path analysis). We refer to the resulting clusters as acculturation profiles: an ethnic profile (including 30% of the sample), a national profile (24.5%), an integration profile (34.5%), and a diffuse profile (11%). Path analysis results that a combined involvement in the national and the ethnic cultures is associated with more positive adaptation outcomes. We found that the effect of ethnic orientation on psychological adaptation was stronger than the one on sociocultural adaptation. Also we found that national orientation did not have a stronger impact on sociocultural adaptation than ethnic orientation.
Hamid Nassaj; Raziye Mehrabi Kushki; Mahmoud Reza Rahbar Ghazi; Mahdiye Pour Ranjbar
Volume 8, Issue 1 , May 2015, , Pages 1-22
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National identity is the most comprehensive and important level of identity in all social systems, which is influential in all domains of culture, society and politics. Considering the significance of national identity as the most component of social order and integrity, the present study investigates ...
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National identity is the most comprehensive and important level of identity in all social systems, which is influential in all domains of culture, society and politics. Considering the significance of national identity as the most component of social order and integrity, the present study investigates the indices of national identity. Accordingly, the effect of cultural values on citizens’ attitudes towards national identity is to be studied. The present study is a survey research and the required data were collected via a researcher-made questionnaire. The population included the youth aged 16 to 40 years old in Kerman City, among whom 270 participants were selected as the sample size. The results of the research indicate that the degree of values of pluralism, patriarchy, power distance and avoidance of uncertainty are at relatively high levels. Furthermore, citizens’ national identity is at the moderate level. In addition, the findings indicate that the effect of variables of pluralism and power distance has significant effects on citizens’ national identity, and the coefficient and direction of the effect of this two variables on national identity is positive. In other words, participants who enjoy pluralist cultural values have more degree of national identity than those who have individualist characteristics and the first group are more likely to be located at higher classes of national identity than the second group. Also, the results indicate that participants who have cultural values with high power distance have more degree of national identity than those who have cultural characteristics with low degree of power distance. The findings indicate that variables of risk-taking and patriarchy have no significant effect on the degree of citizens’ national identity.
Mohammadtaghi Iman; Ali Rouhani
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The verse of holy Koran "verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is [he who is] the most virtuous of you" directly shows that in god's willing there is no superiority of a man or a group than others except those who have piety to god. In fact, the Islamic identity focuses on the superiority ...
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The verse of holy Koran "verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is [he who is] the most virtuous of you" directly shows that in god's willing there is no superiority of a man or a group than others except those who have piety to god. In fact, the Islamic identity focuses on the superiority of piety among humans and does not focus on superiority of a man or a group that causes Islamic identity theoretically be against other competitive identities such as ethnic, global and national identity. Therefore, this research aims to study the relationship between Islamic identity and competitive identities (ethnic, national and global). In this way based on Sheldon Stryker theory and survey method, 431 students have elected and have analyzed. The results have shown that there was positive significant relationship between Islamic identity, national and ethnic identity, and negative significant relationship between Islamic identity and global identity. In addition, multivariate regression results have shown that the variables national and global identities have explained 45 percent of the variation of Islamic identity variable. The results shows that national and ethnic identity amplify the Islamic identity and they have positive relationship with it and in fact they are not a competitive identity for Islamic identity but global identity has negative relationship with Islamic identity and therefore it is a competitive identity for Islamic identity.
Ali Adami; Hajieh Sabbagh Kalajahi
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The issue of national identity became an important discussion in Mashrooteh era; concern about national identity in many works of writers of this era clarifies position of this historical period. Among those writers is the father of Iranians short stories, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh. According to ...
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The issue of national identity became an important discussion in Mashrooteh era; concern about national identity in many works of writers of this era clarifies position of this historical period. Among those writers is the father of Iranians short stories, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh. According to this, the purpose of present study was to examine the extent of attention to symbols of national identity in the Jamalzadeh's stories (Once Upon a Time, bitter and sweet, old and new, our story came to the end) across Various stages of his literary life. The Design of this research was descriptive and its Methodology was qualitative that doing via content analysis method. For this end, by exploring the symbols of national identity in theoretical discussions, and literature review some components of national identity were defined and the structure of content analysis was prepared and then based on this structure, the amount and type of attention to the national identity symbols is evaluated. The results of comparison among the components of national identity symbols in Jamalzadeh's stories showed the largest frequency belongs to "language" and after that, geology, history, literature; celebrities and culture are the most frequent components. Moreover, contemplation in Jamalzadeh's works revealed that he apparently has focused on the visible and materialistic structure of identity more than the epistemic structure. In general, qualitative analysis of Jamalzadeh's stories has shown that he allocates more attention to component of national identity in all of their works; his works depend on context and has an Iranian construction. Nonetheless, we can say he didn't live in Iran but, in their stories he lived with an Iranian culture and Iranian people.
Akbar Zare Shah Abadi; Shiva Sadeghi
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The issue of the youth's national identity concerning their constructive roles in their countries’ destiny is so important. The importance of national identity is due to the fact that it is present in all domains of culture, society, politics and even economy: The youths are most likely to follow ...
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The issue of the youth's national identity concerning their constructive roles in their countries’ destiny is so important. The importance of national identity is due to the fact that it is present in all domains of culture, society, politics and even economy: The youths are most likely to follow their parent’s behavior hence family in this regard is considered to be an influential factor. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of family in constructing yazdi student's national identity. The methodology followed in the present study is survey and cross-sectional the time. 120 high school were selected applying Cochran formula and stratified sampling. A valid and reliable questionnaire was used in order to collect required information. Doing pretest by 40 questioners. The study also had fact validity since the problematic and ambiguous items in the questionnaire were detected and revised as a result of consultation with some scholars. In order to estimate the reliability of measures in this study, alpha cronbach coefficient was used and the obtained data was analyzed by means of the statistical package for Social Sciences(SPSS). The results of the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between the youth's national identity on the one hand and their gender, parent’s national identity, use of mass media and friendly relations with parent's on the order. Furthermore, it was confirmed that there is no significant relationship between the youth's national identity and variables such as age, dimention of family, education, parent's social and economic status as well as family unity family cohesion, Family empathy and dialoge. The result of the multiple regression analysis indicated that gender has the most direct influence on the student's national identity. Furthermore, gender and parent's national identity had direct relationship with the dependent variables.
Fatemeh Rezaei Kheir Abadi; Rezvan Hakim Zade; Mohammaad Hossein Mohammadi; Seyed Ali Khaleghi Nejad
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The issue of national identity became an important discussion in Mashrooteh era; concern about national identity in many works of writers of this era clarifies position of this historical period. Among those writers is the father of Iranians short stories, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh. According to ...
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The issue of national identity became an important discussion in Mashrooteh era; concern about national identity in many works of writers of this era clarifies position of this historical period. Among those writers is the father of Iranians short stories, Seyyed Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh. According to this, the purpose of present study was to examine the extent of attention to symbols of national identity in the Jamalzadeh's stories (Once Upon a Time, bitter and sweet, old and new, our story came to the end) across Various stages of his literary life. The Design of this research was descriptive and its Methodology was qualitative that doing via content analysis method. For this end, by exploring the symbols of national identity in theoretical discussions, and literature review some components of national identity were defined and the structure of content analysis was prepared and then based on this structure, the amount and type of attention to the national identity symbols is evaluated. The results of comparison among the components of national identity symbols in Jamalzadeh's stories showed the largest frequency belongs to "language" and after that, geology, history, literature; celebrities and culture are the most frequent components. Moreover, contemplation in Jamalzadeh's works revealed that he apparently has focused on the visible and materialistic structure of identity more than the epistemic structure. In general, qualitative analysis of Jamalzadeh's stories has shown that he allocates more attention to component of national identity in all of their works; his works depend on context and has an Iranian construction. Nonetheless, we can say he didn't live in Iran but, in their stories he lived with an Iranian culture and Iranian people.
Abdollreza Navvah; Norollah Gheysari; seyyed Mojtaba Taghavi nasab
Volume 3, Issue 3 , October 2010
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This study is performed to use quantitative and survey method among Arabs people of Ahwaz. In this research ethnic identity of Arabs is taken as one of the social problems and its consequences in three dimensions are studied: 1) Reduction of national identity, 2) Attitude to self determination and 3) ...
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This study is performed to use quantitative and survey method among Arabs people of Ahwaz. In this research ethnic identity of Arabs is taken as one of the social problems and its consequences in three dimensions are studied: 1) Reduction of national identity, 2) Attitude to self determination and 3) Attitude to violence. Macro aims of this research are to answer the following questions: what are the internal factors affecting ethnic identity of Arabs of Ahwaz? How the change in ethnic identity does affect national identity of Arabs of Ahwaz? How the change in ethnic identity does affects attitude to its self determination of Arabs of Ahwaz? How the change in ethnic identity does affect attitude to its collective violence of Arabs of Ahwaz? Statistic sample in this study was 384 male and female Arabs of Ahwaz age 18 to 65 years old. The data was taken by questionnaire and in the case of multi stage cluster sampling during winter of 2007. In order to have more precise study, a pretest questionnaire was given to 50 Arabs of Ahwaz during September of 2007. The results of bivariate analysis revealed that 21 out 22 dependent variables (except communication to foreign) were significant with ethnic identity. Also ethnic identity and national identity are negative relationship (R=0/586). In analysis of bivariate 3 dependent variables that its value and index was more than others: 1. Satisfaction of political system, 2. Relative deprivation feeling in political and economical dimension.The result of multivariate analysis of data that was performed using multivariate regression step by step revealed that 9 variables were explained ethnic identity in %58 variance of independent variable. The most important dependent variable was relative deprivation feeling in political dimension = 0. 32
Reduction of national identity was the most important consequence. The two variable, attitude to self determination and attitude to violence were the negative consequences if ethnic identity.
Madi Loghmannia; Ahmad Khamesan
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Identity is one the most significant discussions in contemporary world. In every society, a need, sense of dependency and tendency to national identity is inevitable. As educational system in all countries has the biggest power and humanistic capital, it is one the best tools for reinforcement and consistency ...
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Identity is one the most significant discussions in contemporary world. In every society, a need, sense of dependency and tendency to national identity is inevitable. As educational system in all countries has the biggest power and humanistic capital, it is one the best tools for reinforcement and consistency of national identity and the curriculums have crucial role in national identity formation. As mentioned, the main aim of this article is to study the role of national identity in the educational system. To do so, first national identity will be discussed comparatively in Iran and other countries and later the reasons of its weakness in the educational system will be elaborated. The general goals of three educational stages (elementary, secondary and high School) and the amount of attention to national identity will be subtlety discussed. The results show that national identity in Iranian educational system has no desirable situation and as this factor has effective role, it needs to take into more considerations for developmental issues.
Mohammad Baqer Alizadeh Aghdam; Mohammad Shiri; Sajjad Ojaghloo
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This article reviews social identity among students of secondary school with emphasis on national identity. This paper is to answer how we can increase students` belonging to national identity. Two high school students in two areas of Zanjan city with 700 people are the sample of this study which 30 ...
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This article reviews social identity among students of secondary school with emphasis on national identity. This paper is to answer how we can increase students` belonging to national identity. Two high school students in two areas of Zanjan city with 700 people are the sample of this study which 30 persons were selected to attend the workshop. This research, based on objective, is practical and problem solving and based on time is longitudinal and panel study. The Research method is qualitative and the technique is based on PCM (Project Cycle Management). Theoretically, Tajfle, Giddens, Jenkins and Pyter Burk`s approaches are used in addition to micro, macro and combinational perspectives. Data collection in this study is through workshop and questionnaire. Research findings showed that students` belonging to national Identity have 10 percent increases since the workshop performance. Belonging to the national identity in male students has increased to 15 percent and in female students 5 percent after the workshop. Both female and male students` belongings to national identity have doubled after the workshop. Moreover, students’ familiarity with Iranian national figures, elements of national culture, the historical and national monuments and some national myths, which are all elements of national identity, have doubled after the workshop.
Mohammadreza Javadiyegane; Jalil Azizi
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Social and cultural identity constitutes one of the most important aspects of identity. This article tries to answer the question that to what extent the youth interest in their social and cultural identity and which factors affect this. To answer this question, the authors studied different identity ...
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Social and cultural identity constitutes one of the most important aspects of identity. This article tries to answer the question that to what extent the youth interest in their social and cultural identity and which factors affect this. To answer this question, the authors studied different identity theories in the fields of psychology, sociology and social psychology. Having designated a theoretical framework, they formulated a casual model for research. This study was conducted by using the field method, surveying techniques and questionnaires. The statistical population of this research consists of the high school students in Shiraz. A four hundred persons sample including boys and girls was studied. To analyze data, the authors used described and inferential statistics including the technique of multi variable regression analysis, critical path analysis and factor analysis. The findings showed that the respondents have high interests in social and cultural identity with 92 and 75 percent respectively.
