Sociology
H. Afra
Abstract
In a contemporary individualistic world with a significant diversity of groups, institutions, identities, and attitudes, cultures are likely to collide, especially among young people. In such circumstances, it is social tolerance that prevents the eruption of violence and conflict in a culturally diverse ...
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In a contemporary individualistic world with a significant diversity of groups, institutions, identities, and attitudes, cultures are likely to collide, especially among young people. In such circumstances, it is social tolerance that prevents the eruption of violence and conflict in a culturally diverse society. Therefore, the present study aims to study the relationship between individualism and social tolerance in the youth of Bojnord. A total of 825 young people were selected by the multi-stage cluster sampling technique and interviewed through a questionnaire. Its reliability and validity are confirmed by Cronbach's alpha technique and face validity. The findings show that there is a significant and direct relationship between moral individualism and social tolerance, extreme individualism and social tolerance, as well as between moral individualism / extreme individualism and the three dimensions of social tolerance (political, identity, and behavior). The results of the regression coefficient show that moral individualism and extreme individualism explain about 34% of the variance of social tolerance. Thus, with the spread of one of the cultural consequences of modernity, namely individualism, social tolerance increases in society.
Psychology, Video Games
H. Aakbari; A. Majdi; M Heydari
Abstract
Seeking to expand communication technologies, new diversified architecture of the process of transferring meaning is evolving media in the world. One of these methods, conveying the fabric in virtual games. Virtual games as a text, concepts to transmit users. One of the ...
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Seeking to expand communication technologies, new diversified architecture of the process of transferring meaning is evolving media in the world. One of these methods, conveying the fabric in virtual games. Virtual games as a text, concepts to transmit users. One of the implications of the media in the field of work on it has been less, individualism. The notions that in terms of sociological significance is also due to sign method cognitive Barrett, mobile phone Games were investigated. Five codes on the basis of the five Barrett, four five codes concept of cultural field as individualism, summing up the findings provided urban space, alone, relying on the individual capabilities, human challenge with human.
Sociology
S. Shari’ati Mazinani; S. Ebrahimzadeh
Abstract
In recent decades, Maktab Qur'an(MQ),founded by Ahmad Muftizadeh (Iranian Sunni Kurdish scholar and political activist) in 1977,as the oldest Iranian Sunni Islamist group, has experienced different phases in its evolution, bothstructurally and discursively. In this study,using grounded theory,we have ...
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In recent decades, Maktab Qur'an(MQ),founded by Ahmad Muftizadeh (Iranian Sunni Kurdish scholar and political activist) in 1977,as the oldest Iranian Sunni Islamist group, has experienced different phases in its evolution, bothstructurally and discursively. In this study,using grounded theory,we have examined the social mechanisms affecting Iranian Sunni Kurds' tendency to Islamist movements (MQ as the case study, in the fourth phase of its structural evolution since1995). This study argues a major reason for Sunni Kurds’ orientation to Maktabis a tendency among people to live in a "community", and what makes this community ideal is a collective life that strengthenspersonal relationships and collective solidarity. Also, the dominant social relationships in society have moved toward a kind of "societal" relationshipcharacterized by impersonal relationships, alienation and increasing individualism. In this study it is argued that while the influence of societal world is increasing, some of its alienated inhabitants try to leave it and dwell in a new community. Therefore, currently, due to lack of other supportive structures in today's Iranian society, MQ, with its community-like characteristics, functions as a kind of haven for Iranian Sunni Kurds who feel alienated from the individualistic society.This is a new kind of "Hijra" in our modern era, which is not place-based but is rather characterized by transformations in Maktabi Muslims’ social ties and beliefs, which virtually provide them with a new Ummah–MaktabQur’an–to live in.
Mahnaz Farahmand; Yasin KhorramPoor; Zohre Parsaeeian; Farzane Mandegari
Abstract
During the last decades, the institution of family and kinship system effecting from entry modernization process, has experienced so many change and evolutions. so transition of our society from traditional to modernity has been caused to family institution and its functions are severely changed, for ...
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During the last decades, the institution of family and kinship system effecting from entry modernization process, has experienced so many change and evolutions. so transition of our society from traditional to modernity has been caused to family institution and its functions are severely changed, for this respect, the article attempts for explores this issue whether components of modernization have had role in the kinship support of Yazd families or not? Finding of the article which have collected of survey method, questionnaire tool and sampling of multiple cluster among 384 Yazd families, show that response to this question is positive. In this manner, between background variables (means income, age and sex) and kinship support was a significant. Relationship certainly it must states that age variable communicates a significant and inverted relationship with kinship support, and education with kinship support didn’t show relationship. Among components of modernization, there wasan inverted and significant relationship between vertical individualism, mercantilism, collectivism with kinship support. Likewise, between pluralism and kinship support was a positive and significantrelationship. Among modernization components, the rationality variable and horizontal individualism didn’t have relationship with kinship support. As well as, results of regression showed that the study explains variance of kinship support more than 17% among Yazd families.
mohammad saeed zokaei; Vahid Valizadeh
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Iranian youth’s leisure culture has been immediately affected by the digital media culture. As a communicative media, cell phone has crossed borders of youth norms and identity; and in addition to facilitating their communication, has changed its patterns. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of ...
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Iranian youth’s leisure culture has been immediately affected by the digital media culture. As a communicative media, cell phone has crossed borders of youth norms and identity; and in addition to facilitating their communication, has changed its patterns. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field, and relied on the qualitative and quantitative data gathered from the mobile youth users, the present study argues that mobile has produced a new field in which youth’s opportunities for leisure, entertainment, communication, and independence have extended. In addition, cell phone has facilitated and compensated for some defects in public sphere, and therefore empowered youth agency, individuality, and power. Despite this strengthening, cell phone does not cross borders of gender and class differences, or the levels of social capital.
