Document Type : Scientific Research Manuscript

Authors

• A, Morshedi ¹
• M. Hadjizadeh Meimandi ²
• M. Mashalchi ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

² Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

³ M.A. Student in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

This article tries to inspect the typology of the mourning communities in Yazd based on the content of monodies and their general orientation. This research is interpretive and the research method is based on grounded theory. Data collection was done by semi-structured interviews with 22 informed people. The sample have been selected from the group’s chief, the poet, the weeper, the panegyrist and the active group members. The researches have shown that the mourning communities in Yazd were have been put into type such as reflexivity, identity oriented and ideological (movement oriented) communities. The properties of the reflexivity community can be such example as: “time coverage glance at the Ashura history”, “critical vision to contemporary Islamic societies”, “putting an emphasis on human general concepts” and “critic of the discourse of the Islamic republic of Iran”. The property of identity oriented can be as the following “the static vision in the Ashura history”, “mournful and consolatory vision”, "emphasis on Shiite identity", “bound to the borders of the Shiite identity of the Islamic republic of Iran. The property of the ideological community is “the time coverage glance at the Ashura history”, “the school vision”, “putting an emphasis on the Shiite jihad” and “bound to the discourse borders of Islamic Republic of Iran”.

Keywords

• mourning community
• typology
• reflexivity
• identity oriented
• ideological

Main Subjects

• Sociology