Volume 17 (2024)
Volume 16 (2023)
Volume 15 (2022)
Volume 14 (2021)
Volume 13 (2020)
Volume 12 (2019)
Volume 11 (2018)
Volume 10 (2017)
Volume 9 (2016)
Volume 8 (2015)
Volume 7 (2014)
Volume 6 (2013)
Volume 5 (2012)
Volume 4 (2011)
Volume 3 (2010)
Volume 2 (2009)
Dialectic of Distinction and De – differentiation

Abbas Kazemi; Mohammad Rezaei

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 1-24

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.001

Abstract
  Although the concept of wandering has not been applied popularly in Iran, it could explain many cultural phenomena. The present article first outlines the history of wandering and its used meaning. Then, it describes a form of wandering as the distinctive lifestyle of urban subordinate groups in the ...  Read More

Modernity and Housing

Nematollah Fazeli

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 25-63

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.002

Abstract
  This article analyzes rural housing from a cultural point of view in the past and present. It studies housing as one of the main elements of lifestyle to understand the rural life as a whole. The author, first, studies the effects of modernity on housing culture in the areas such as modernization, rationalization, ...  Read More

Lifestyle and Women’s Clothing in Tehran

Nafiseh Hamidi; Mahdi Faraji

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 65-92

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.003

Abstract
  This article aims at finding different lifestyles of female clothing in Tehran. To this end, it describes women’s diverse types of clothing in different social and cultural environments. The main questions advanced in the article are about special lifestyles and logic of choosing clothes by women. ...  Read More

Coffee Shop Youth Lifestyle

Vahid Shalchi

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 93-115

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.004

Abstract
  This article has a review on the third zone coffee shop youth life style and looks forward to note the features of this group’s life style. Some of the other objective of this article are notifying the importance of different elements in life, consumption norms and the types of leisure. The results ...  Read More

The Youths, Body and Fitness Culture

Mohammad Saeed Zokaei

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 117-141

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.005

Abstract
  A recent interest in body issues on the part of academic and scientific circles should be seen as a reaction to the radical changes in relationship between body, economy, technology and society. The growth of nutrition, health and sport technologies along with the increasing importance of agency and ...  Read More

Cultural Minorities and Life Styles: Iranian Trends

Naser Fakouhi

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 143-174

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.006

Abstract
  The Globalization accelerated the paradoxical processes of modernization by introducing the cultural homogenizations and heterogenizations: construction and deconstruction of local-communitarian identities. This is why we are facing on the one hand, the increasing of local identities and visions and ...  Read More

An Image of students cultural Lifestyle

Mohammad Fazeli

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 175-198

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.007

Abstract
  Most of the theories argue that the main functions of universities in the contemporary is to promote culture, to train participative citizen as well as specialists. Consumption of cultural products is one of the significant ways of promoting cultural capital and of getting prepared to accept them some ...  Read More

The concept of style of life and its field in social sciences

Mohammad Saeed Mahdavi Kani

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 199-230

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.008

Abstract
  Concept of life style is one in social sciences which has drawn a great deal attention. But its various and relatively paradoxical use have made it ambiguous, and in the eyes of some researchers, futile. Here, first the article prodives an loxicological explanation from the concept and then addresses ...  Read More

Political Impact of Consumerism

Fardin Alikhah

Volume 1, Issue 1 , May 2008, Pages 231-256

https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2008.01.009

Abstract
  The main goal of this article is to study the outcomes of consumerism. The article mainly focuses on the political impact of consumerism. It also intends to analyze the role of television programs and advertisement to foster consumerism. Author’s basic speculation is that the rapid increase in ...  Read More