Social Consequences of Sexual Identity Disorder:
A Study on Transsexuals’ Social Capital and Quality of Life
Fatemeh
Javaheri
دانشیار گروه جامعه شناسی دانشگاه تربیت معلم تهران
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Morteza
Hosseinzadeh
کارشناس ارشد دانشگاه شیراز
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2012
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In Iran, like other countries, there are a small number of people who are not satisfied with their sex, and do attempt to change it. Although the Iranian legal system has legitimized sex rearrangement conditionally, transsexual people encounter many limitations during the process of sex change and even later in their personal and social life. Thus, such situation decreases their stock of social capital and the level of life quality. This paper is based on Lin’s approach that considers the quality of life as a kind social capital return. Firstly, the amount of transsexuals’ social capital and their quality of life is described. Then, the relation between social capital and quality of life is analyzed in accordance with Lin’s approach. The data was gathered via survey method and interviewing 168 persons who were under supervision of Welfare centers across the country. The results indicate that the mean figures for social capital and quality of life among respondents are lower than the expected statistical mean. Therefore, there is a significant and direct relationship between these two variables. Any decrease in transsexuals’ social capital leads to weakness of their social capital return especially in the aspect of expression.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
5
v.
3
no.
2012
3
22
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_21448_563bcde36bf5b92ebb0632e7f11ff475.pdf
Discourse Analysis of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Tenth
Presidential Election of the I.R. of Iran
Jahangir
Jahangiri
استادیار گروه جامعهشناسی و برنامهریزی اجتماعی دانشگاه شیراز
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Sajad
Fattahi
کارشناسارشد جامعهشناسی
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text
article
2012
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The present article attempts to analyze the discourse presented by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one of the candidates of the tenth presidential election campaign, by using the method of critical discourse analysis. The methodtheory used for extraction of discourse signifiers is Fairclough theorymethod. Then, the signifiers and nodal point are put in the theoretical framework of research means of Laclau & Mouffe's theory-method which represents the total view that would help us to understand the way signifiers articulate together, the way of defining and redefining the signifiers by nodal point, the way of integration around prominent signifier and also to produce antagonistic borders for hegemonic victory to other discourses that exist in the field. The prominent signifier that integrated this discourse and articulated other signifiers around it was popular management.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
5
v.
3
no.
2012
23
47
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_21449_69e4ce99a45144be472ed0714585d282.pdf
Virtual Communications and Cyber Psychology:
Studying the Relationship between Students Enjoyment of the
Weblog with their Attitude toward Virtual Communications
(Case: Students of Technical School of University of Tehran)
Hadi
Khaniki
استادیار گروه ارتباطات دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
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Reyhaneh Sadat
Rouhani
کارشناس ارشد روانشناسی عمومی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
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2012
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This research aims to study and utilization of the new communication theories in the field of psychology and media psychology. Therefore, it can open a door through a new subject on cyberspace and cyber-psychology in an interdisciplinary perspective. In this regard, upon completion of the theoretical studies, an investigation was conducted to explore the relation between blog usage and attitude towards blog virtual relationships. So, 310 undergraduate students of University of Tehran based on spending time on blogs were divided into three major groups, each one includes two subgroups based on gender. All groups were asked to complete one questionnaire: Attitude towards Blog Virtual Relationships. The results show significant Pearson correlation between attitude and the time spent on blogs. Furthermore, it assessed the value of participants’ reliance to virtual relationships and its relation with blog usage through Rely Index. The results showed no significant Pearson correlation in this matter .
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
5
v.
3
no.
2012
48
71
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_21451_930c0826a89798079124128faa0f4951.pdf
Cultural Studies and Memory Studies
Mohammad Saeed
Zokaei
استادیار گروه جامعهشناسی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
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text
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2012
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Value and structural transformations influenced by cultural turn, having taken place and grown in contemporary societies, have given a boom to memory studies. Cultural memory has turned into an important tool in producing discourses and representations and also in shaping the cultural identities of social groups and kind of communication people make with many of social institutions and structures. The connection between memory and popular culture and the role of cultural industries in the production, reproduction or the changes in cultural memories, also explain the strategic role memory plays in culture politics. The present paper aims to clarify the background, functions and the impacts of memory studies’ prevalence as an academic tradition, particularly within the area of cultural studies. In addition to providing important new agendas in the study of everyday life and popular culture, memory studies has important contributions in connecting humanities and social sciences and in offering a better understanding of the complexities that social and cultural processes display.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
5
v.
3
no.
2012
72
96
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_21452_98f99d713e9d61a72883b7e07f366ac3.pdf
Level of Socio-Economic Development and Rates of Violent
Crimes in the Provinces
Bizhan
Zare
استادیار گروه جامعهشناسی دانشگاه تربیت معلم تهران
author
Ali Akbar
Zandilak
کارشناس ارشد جامعهشناسی
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article
2012
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Considering the theoretical and experimental background reached abroad to the effect that an opposite relationship often exists between development and violent crimes, this same question was raised here as to whether a similar pattern exists in Iran? Therefore this study assumed that higher the level of the socio-economic development in Iran’s provinces the lower their rates of violent crime. The theories of structural pressures and violence sub-culture were used to explain the research problem. This is a statistical-method research which uses the secondary and formal data. The analysis is conducted at a macro-level and units of analysis are country’s provinces (28 provinces). The study covers the period of 1997 to 2001. The Pearson correlation, the Spearman correlation, and multiple regression analysis were used for testing the hypotheses. Findings of research indicate that there is a positive and relatively weak relationship between the socio-economic development, in its dimensions, and violent crime rates among the provinces, but when each of the components of violent crimes index (homicide, assault, collective disputes) were brought in relation to socio- economic development and its dimensions, it was observed that only murder (that involved 2.2 percent of all violent crimes index) had an opposite relationship with socio- economic development and its dimensions.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
5
v.
3
no.
2012
97
125
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_21453_2ba19208f39a9b2e07cab6847ed0ee59.pdf
Ashoora Ritual in Ardabil Township: An Anthropological
Analysis
Ahmad
Mohammadpur
استادیار جامعهشناسی دانشگاه بوعلیسینا
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Ramin
Shahizadeh
کارشناس ارشد مردم شناسی دانشگاه بوعلی سینا
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2012
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The lamenting ritual of Ashoora in Ardabil should not be thought as a simple religious phenomenon; instead, it represents a highly lived and active sociocultural occurrence. The aim of this paper is to describe and understand the lamenting ritual of Ashoora in Ardabil as a cultural heritage as it bears sociocultural functions in the society that was studied. Using ethnographic fieldwork method, we have tried to present a close, precise and thick description of the Ashoora ritual based on Clifford Geertz and Emile Durkheim perspectives. The research findings categorized in two ways: the first is the order and quality of the lamenting ritual; the second deals with the symbols and signs of Ashoora. This paper demonstrates that the lamenting ritual of Ashoora constitutes a collective identity and unity in which individuality serves in favor of collective consciousness. The symbols and signs used by participants in the ritual are drawn from the cultural systems which in turn distinguish their identity and belongings.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
5
v.
3
no.
2012
126
146
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_21454_3d57add73cdf1fbf42dd4a0361559daa.pdf
Value Priorities of Teachers and its Relationship with some
Socio-Economic Factors
(Case of Boroujen Township)
Asghar
Mirfardi
استادیار گروه علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه یاسوج
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Sirous
Ahmadi
استادیار گروه علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه یاسوج
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Zohreh
Rafiee Baldaji
کارشناس ارشد جامعه شناسی
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2012
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Values are among the most substantial factors orienting human behaviors in any society and they play a major role in the economic, social and political development. Value priorities which differ from one society to another reflect different experiences of various people. The present study, using the cultural shift theory of Inglehart, seeks to determine the value priorities of teachers and the economic, social and cultural factors affecting it. The data of the research were collected via 343 teachers who are employees of the education office of Boroujen. They were selected by multistage random sampling and through survey-method and the questionnaire. The results of the findings of the research showed that the teachers possess materialistic value priorities and there was no significant difference in value priorities of different age groups. The extent of religiosity among respondents was measured to be very high. Out of independent variables of the research, "feeling of social security", gender, and income had significant relationship with value priorities.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
5
v.
3
no.
2012
147
168
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_21455_656c310d445b7fa194e079ab083e5e45.pdf