Marzieh PiraviVanak
Volume 16, Issue 29 , June 2015, , Pages 149-166
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Urban visage is the language of city; the language that is the indicator of human’s perception or thinking of being in the world. "Building" is the symbolic and creative disclosure of thinking that reveals the approach of humans towards life in the world, and his or her view to the world and place. ...
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Urban visage is the language of city; the language that is the indicator of human’s perception or thinking of being in the world. "Building" is the symbolic and creative disclosure of thinking that reveals the approach of humans towards life in the world, and his or her view to the world and place. Contravention of the authentic meaning of a Building- that is dwelling, peace, intimacy, ensconcing, protection – involves contemporary human in the crisis of being "homeless" and insecure. Because of this crisis, contemporary human is alien or unfamiliar with his or her urban space even in his or her own city. Only when urban visage (face) is appropriated with content of the city (culture, beliefs, creeds,…) we have urban space. In this situation every element in the urbanization can bring familiar and meaningful feelings for citizens. Reflections on the authentic meaning of Building, place, space may present proposed pattern for authentication to urban face, the face that is language.
Ahmad Naderi
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The beliefs of Sufis and Dervishes have been one of the most controversial issues during Islamic history and caused numerous challenges and struggles between supporters and opposition groups of these beliefs. There were always some jurists and philosophers among opposition groups who have cited some ...
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The beliefs of Sufis and Dervishes have been one of the most controversial issues during Islamic history and caused numerous challenges and struggles between supporters and opposition groups of these beliefs. There were always some jurists and philosophers among opposition groups who have cited some shortcomings according to their point of views. Jurists’ views covered juridical issues while philosophers’ views emphasized on epistemological problems.
In this article, Talebani Qadiriyya’s order as one of the main sects of Sufism has been reviewedthrough anthropological approach by analyzing their theological components and the relationship between their belief system and real world. The main concern of this article is laid upon what is Qadiriyya order? What kind of belief or value system it has? And how this order is reproduced or emerged in individual and social domains? The field research was done in “Vora” and “Najjar” villages in Oramanat Lehunnear the Paveh. The research method is used in this article is participant observation, interviews and study of documents.
farnoosh shamili; fatemeh ghafoorifar; mehdi mohammdzadeh
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Illumination is one of the most decorative-applied arts that are considered as a subset of art books. Quran-designing is one of the suitable ways for the manifestation of this art that has been developed since the early Islamic Ages. Illumination can be seen in various applications of the Qur'an, including ...
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Illumination is one of the most decorative-applied arts that are considered as a subset of art books. Quran-designing is one of the suitable ways for the manifestation of this art that has been developed since the early Islamic Ages. Illumination can be seen in various applications of the Qur'an, including the decoration of the opening pages, the opening pages of the components and etc. in the form of Shamseh(roundel) or rubrics. Rubric decorations were used by artists during Timurid and Qajar periods. There are reasonable examples from that era. Timurid examples preserved at the Sacred Threshold of Qom and the Qajar examples preserved at the Central Library of Tabriz are Valuable national reserves in the field of illuminated Qur’anic manuscripts which have contemplated until now. The present research answers the following two basic questions: What are the visual and decorative features of the selected rubrics of the illuminated Qu’ran’s of the Timurid and Qajar era? What are the Subscription and differentiation points of Timurid and Qajar Quran’s rubrics preserved at the Sacred Threshold of Qom and the Qajar examples preserved at the Central Library of Tabriz? This research is descriptive-analytical and works has been evaluated using comparative method. Resources have been collected by library method and samples have been collected through field method. The results of the research showed that the rubrics of the Qurans of the Timurid have a coherent feature and visual strength in form and role, regarding page proportions and decorative motifs, but the composition of the motifs of the Qajar rubrics has a rather diffuse structure. To use of arabesque motifs aesthetic, golden and lazuli colored has been seen in both works with variable proportions.
Maryam Tafaroji Yeganeh
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The aim of this study is an investigation of type and amount of taboo application in Rosvaee, Asre yakhbandan, and Ab va Atash Iranian cinematic films. Taboos are words and expressions which have unpleasant meaning and the member of society avoids using them directly. This study wants to investigate ...
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The aim of this study is an investigation of type and amount of taboo application in Rosvaee, Asre yakhbandan, and Ab va Atash Iranian cinematic films. Taboos are words and expressions which have unpleasant meaning and the member of society avoids using them directly. This study wants to investigate the application of taboo and its relation with gender. This work is a kind of content analysis, corpus base study. The corpus of the study composed of actors/actress dialogues in these three films. 84 taboos were found which have been analyzed by content analysis with the help of SPSS and t-statistic used for investigation. The results show that among different kind of taboo, like general, animals, family and etc., general taboos have the highest rate of application and animals, family and disease have the lowest one. Besides, there is no significant relation between gender and the use of taboo. Which means the males and females used the same amount of them. But the only difference is about the type of taboos used by males and females. Females mostly used the animals, but males mostly used general taboos. Besides, males never used of taboo related to diseases.
Iman Zakariaee Kermany
Volume 16, Issue 31 , December 2016, , Pages 153-176
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Today, facing globalization, national and ethnic identities have become more important in micro and macro cultural fields. In globalization process, pride worthies of one nation have direct relation with cultural identity. Pride worthies are person or Phenomenon that we can be proud of them. In various ...
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Today, facing globalization, national and ethnic identities have become more important in micro and macro cultural fields. In globalization process, pride worthies of one nation have direct relation with cultural identity. Pride worthies are person or Phenomenon that we can be proud of them. In various cultures and civilizations some research has be done about figures but more of them are about persons who are elites or famous in one or several fields like science, art, culture, politics, religious and etc. The main purpose of this research is redefinition of the concept pride worthy in Iranian contemporary culture. In order to achieve this purpose, the following questions must be answered. What is the meaning and scope of pride worthies and are there any factors or the criteria for identifying these pride worthies? Although in the first section of this paper, concept and scope of pride worthies have been studied and in the other part, identity dimension as the most important function of pride worthies’ cognition has been studied. Maybe professional dimension of one pride worthy be attractive for expert persons of that field but identity dimension could elevate public culture and national and ethnic identities in wider area. This research is done with exploratory-explanatory method and the main result of it is introduction and cognition of cultural and artistic pride worthies of one nation and effort to make models for members of society, will be effective to elevate individual, social and national identities.
n n; mohammad mazlom khorasani; Mohsen nogani dokht bahmani
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This study investigates the relationship between variables related to agency of actor-structure in the knowledge-based business culture and based on the concept business habitus.The statistical population is all members of the growth and knowledge based enterprises in Ferdowsi University ...
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This study investigates the relationship between variables related to agency of actor-structure in the knowledge-based business culture and based on the concept business habitus.The statistical population is all members of the growth and knowledge based enterprises in Ferdowsi University with a sample size of 204 people. The habit of business is measured and conceptualized with four dimensions of innovation, social interaction, market orientation and business plan development based on Bourdieu's theory. Agency variables are included Social Support, Supportive Policies and Knowledge Support Network. Correlations of relationships between variables show that all agent variables have a direct and meaningful relationship with business habitus and they increas with the increases of the rate of business habitus.In step-by-step regression analysis, it is also determined that about 0.5 of dependent variable changes is explained by agent variables that the share of social support variable is more than other variables. The result of the research shows that the habitus of actors has played a fundamental role in the knowledge based business culture and actors should have regular planning and purposeful and mutual interaction to increase their business's ability in order to establish a relationship and attract and receive various resources from different sectors.
Ali Naghi Faghihi; Susan Bahrami; Reza Jafari Harandi; Sohrab Abdi Zarrin
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The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the cultural programs of University of Qom in training students from the perspective of professors and students in the academic year of 2018-19. This study was done by descriptive survey and analytical method. The statistical population consisted of all ...
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The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the cultural programs of University of Qom in training students from the perspective of professors and students in the academic year of 2018-19. This study was done by descriptive survey and analytical method. The statistical population consisted of all undergraduate female students and female professors in University of Qom. Subjects were selected from professors and students, that with purposive sampling 152 female professors and 357 female students were selected by random quota sampling. Data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire of cultural activities of the university that its validity and reliability were confirmed. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 23 using T-test, ANOVA and LSD tests. Students believed that the role of cultural programs in training students was moderate, which was more than average in religious, moral and social training, moderate in political training, and less than average in cultural/artistic training, respectively. Also, from the professors' point of view, the role of university's cultural programs in training students was less than average, which has had a less than average effect on religious, social, political, and cultural/artistic training. Cultural planning is a tool for achieving cultural development and it is the most important tool for achieving sustainable development. It is necessary that the university's cultural programs be linked to the needs and interests of the students in order to increase the effectiveness of these programs.
Gholamreza M. Mehr; Abdollah Bikaranlou
Volume 15, Issue 26 , December 2014, , Pages 155-176
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This article by content analysis of Iranian prize-winner movies in international festivals, examines the depiction of Iranian-Islamic cultural components in these movies. The research method is content analysis and its sample includes 20 feature films. The findings show that in two movies i.e. "The White ...
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This article by content analysis of Iranian prize-winner movies in international festivals, examines the depiction of Iranian-Islamic cultural components in these movies. The research method is content analysis and its sample includes 20 feature films. The findings show that in two movies i.e. "The White Balloon" and "The Wind Will Take US ", the Iranian-Islamic cultural components are represented more boldly and they are much paler in other movies. On the basis of other findings, such characteristics as being untamed and being different have been the most prominent characteristics that probably have paved the way for their international success.
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Volume 14, Issue 21 , May 2013, , Pages 157-178
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One of the most important missions of mass media is enlightening public opinion and enhancing their knowledge in various fields of life.
Commercial advertisement is one of the fields of mass media.
The planners of mass media must observe the jurisprudential laws and ethical advices in this field and ...
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One of the most important missions of mass media is enlightening public opinion and enhancing their knowledge in various fields of life.
Commercial advertisement is one of the fields of mass media.
The planners of mass media must observe the jurisprudential laws and ethical advices in this field and the benefit of the people in general and not to just focus on their financial benefit or the producers' or the merchants'
In this article we would like to introduce some of the damages in this ground.
Some of them are: deceiving the consumer, encouraging them to consume more, abusing the beauty of women for advertisement, denying the other goods or other merchandise, assuring the people (consumers) about the quality of commodity meanwhile the quality is not very high, and in brief, trying to benefit the owner of goods and not the benefit of people and consumers in general.
mahboubeh barand; hamed bakhshi; mahdi kermani; masoud eimaniyan
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Despite the rise and expansion of knowledge and technology, We can still easily observe the presence of strong superstitious attitudes amongst people in human societies. Such attitudes are socially damaging, because they are essentially misleading people about how they can solve their own problems. Superstitious ...
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Despite the rise and expansion of knowledge and technology, We can still easily observe the presence of strong superstitious attitudes amongst people in human societies. Such attitudes are socially damaging, because they are essentially misleading people about how they can solve their own problems. Superstitious attitudes are simply the by-product of people’s socialization in different stages. Media are key factors in process of socialization which to a great extent cover people’s cultural consumption. Depending on what sorts of contents are promoted by the media, they are creating an attitude either in favor of or against superstitions. The current study is seeking to explore the Relationship of cultural consumption on having superstitious attitudes amongst the university students in Mashhad. the research methodology in this study is based on survey and it has been conducted by means of researcher-made questionnaires. The population was university students of Mashhad (97146 persons) of whom, we have chosen 363 university students (all of whom live in Mashhad) by cluster-stratified method as a statistical society. The result has shown us that in one hand, there is a negative or inverse relationship between having superstitious attitudes and informative cultural consumption such as books and newspapers. On the other hand, there is a positive or direct relationship between having superstitious attitudes and entertaining cultural consumptions such as social media and satellite channels. On the whole and after taking everything into consideration, there is a meaningful inverse relationship between the amount of cultural consumption and having superstitious attitudes.
Seyed Meisam Motahari; Mas'ud Delkhah; Esmae'l Baniardalan; Majid Sarsangi
Volume 16, Issue 30 , December 2015, , Pages 161-184
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One of the most fundamental problems in today's cinema is a discussion of what is referred to lack of mutual understanding between officials and artists. The record review in Hoze Honari as one of the major determinants of coordination in Iranian cinema, it can be a reference for all those involved in ...
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One of the most fundamental problems in today's cinema is a discussion of what is referred to lack of mutual understanding between officials and artists. The record review in Hoze Honari as one of the major determinants of coordination in Iranian cinema, it can be a reference for all those involved in Iran's cinema and efficient. But what Hoze Honari as a critic the revelation of values in The New Iranian Cinema refers to Debate success in the sacred films as a cinema with special audience and yet have a value. Avini’s theory of cinema of the 60s, has raised him as the "Benchmark Index" of this movement. In this paper with the comparative methods, we scrutinize the sacred defense, with an emphasis on the Avini’s theory in 6 movies chosen from this current artistic movement in Iran. These films are: “Mohajer” [Immigrant] (Hatami Kia, 1989), "Gozargah" [Crossing] (Bahrani, 1986), "Radde Payi bar Shen" [A footprint on the Sand] (Honarmand, 1987), "Chashme Shisheii" [the eye of glass] (Jami, 1995), "Haras" [The Fear] (Bahrani, 1987), “Balami be souye Sahel” [The Boat toward shore] (Mollagholipour, 1985) Results show that Cinematic works produced by Hoze Honari has not Substantial coordination with Avini’s opinions and even contradicts. The films “Mohajer” (Hatami Kia, 1989), "Rade Payi bar Shen" (Honarmand, 1987), and "Chashme Shisheii" (Jami, 1995), are coordinate with Avini’s Point of view. But the films "Gozargah" (Bahrani, 1986), "Haras" (Bahrani, 1987), “Balami be souye Sahel” (Mollagholipour, 1985) were Uncoordinated with the Avini’s opinion.
Mohamadm Abbaszadeh; Samad Adlipour; Tavakol Aghayari Hir; Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam,
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Family sociologists believe that modernization is the most important factor in family transformations of developing countries. After the appearance of modernization in Iran, the family institution has experienced many changes in recent decades. After the Iranian Revolution, many policies and programs ...
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Family sociologists believe that modernization is the most important factor in family transformations of developing countries. After the appearance of modernization in Iran, the family institution has experienced many changes in recent decades. After the Iranian Revolution, many policies and programs have been implemented to protect the family from the challenges of modernization. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to study the changes and transformations of the family in the context of modernization and its impact on Iran's policy makings in the field of family. The research is conducted by a qualitative method and the grounded theory approach has been used as the operational method of the research. The statistical sample of the research includes the citizens and the experts of Tabriz city. The sampling strategy is theoretical and the sampling method is purposeful. The findings indicate that modernization has made some changes in family patterns, in marriage rules, in family practices, in attitudes and patterns of childbearing, balance of power in the family, in leisure patterns and in attitudes and patterns of divorce. Also, the policies adopted by the governments after the revolution were not able to address the harms and challenges of the family. These policies are associated with some problems such as lack of a non-comprehensive policies or holistic approach to the family, having a harm-oriented approach to the family, existence of gnumerous family custodians, unclear family policies, unclear approaches achieving policies, ignoring family diversity, lack of a sociological insight into policies and the reduction of the semantic and conceptual meaning of the family to meet the basic needs.
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Volume 10, Issue 5 , May 2008, , Pages 163-185
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The system of public management in developing countries as “in transition societies” has some characteristics which have greatly changed in developed societies. Managing administrative system of countries can not afford providing public services through bureaucratic mechanisms and mechanical ...
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The system of public management in developing countries as “in transition societies” has some characteristics which have greatly changed in developed societies. Managing administrative system of countries can not afford providing public services through bureaucratic mechanisms and mechanical structures and is seriously criticized.
Volume 15, Issue 27 , February 2014, , Pages 163-184
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The widespread evolution of economic, social, and cultural structures in the recent decades has deeply influenced human experiences. One of the most important transitions is domination of communicative media’s logic over the modern life, which has challenged many traditions of societies. Life style ...
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The widespread evolution of economic, social, and cultural structures in the recent decades has deeply influenced human experiences. One of the most important transitions is domination of communicative media’s logic over the modern life, which has challenged many traditions of societies. Life style and leisure practice is an area of human’s social life, which has experienced some changes under the influence of communicative medias. This article is investigating youth leisure practice in communicative medias. In other words, aim of this research is investigating the effects of communicative medias on the leisure practice. Research method is qualitative and the technique is narrative interview in which 35 students of Mazandaran University has been interviewed. Research findings are showing that media power relations and the underlying ideology in which is encoding commercial texts, influences the youth leisure practice. Practice of media leisure, debilitates real communication and has transferred communication into the cyber networks. Leisure practice in this situation is a kind of personal experience rather than being social. Although the communicative medias are apparatuses of leisure control, they can also be apparatuses of resistance and causing the feeling of release (even being superficial). This experience can be defined as releasing from the prison of routine life. Subjective release does not mean releasing from the activity of routine life, but the right to choose the leisure
Hashemi Foroud; layla azimi; Ali Roshanaie; Mohammad Hossein Asadi Davoodabadi
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Age of modern communication technologies and their expansion with its new conceptions such as virtual reality, cyberspace, etc., caused lots of changes in couples' relationships in Iranian families. By cultural changes, mass media made major changes in attitudes of couples towards emotions of each other ...
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Age of modern communication technologies and their expansion with its new conceptions such as virtual reality, cyberspace, etc., caused lots of changes in couples' relationships in Iranian families. By cultural changes, mass media made major changes in attitudes of couples towards emotions of each other in their married life. The present research aimed at studying the effects of virtual social networks and the foreign satellite TV channels on emotional sources of women. The framework and the theoretical model of this research is based on Thompson's "self-experience in a mediated world", but in order to enrich the research, theories by Gerbner, Campbell and Collins were also being used. The method of the research is casual (explanatory). The statistical population is 20-55-year-old women of Borujerd city of Iran. The sample includes 400 individuals based on Cochran formula. Disproportionate stratified sampling was used. Through directed questionnaire the required data was gathered and processed by SPSS software. The results show that degree and kind of use of foreign satellite TV channels has direct and positive relation with changes of emotional sources of women. Multivariate regression showed that factors related to foreign satellite TV channels in general could explain 37 percent of variance related to emotional sources of women. Virtual social networks, memberships in the networks, using rate, with the exception of attraction of use have also a direct and positive relation with emotional sources of women. Multivariate regression could explain 44 percent of the variance related to the emotional sources of women. Thus, the results confirmed the theoretical framework and showed being proportional with it....
Vahid Khashei; Sayyed Mahdi Mirhaji
Volume 16, Issue 32 , March 2016, , Pages 165-196
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Movies picture our imaginations about social, economic, and political issues creating the approaches within which we comprehend them. Since management category is currently one of the difficulties in Iran, giving attentions to how the characters of the governmental managers are shown in the movies can ...
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Movies picture our imaginations about social, economic, and political issues creating the approaches within which we comprehend them. Since management category is currently one of the difficulties in Iran, giving attentions to how the characters of the governmental managers are shown in the movies can be effective to recognition of general understandings of the managers. Present study has focused on quality of their representation in Iranian movies after the revolution in Iran. The method of this study is semiotic analysis. By adopting this method, five top selling movies made in this period, have been studied. The findings indicate that the behavioral characteristics of the managers have been concerns of the movie producers more than other areas.
Seyyed Hossein Sharafoddin; Nematollah Karamokllahi; ali vahidi ferdowsi
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This research is trying to make a religious critical means for criticizing dramatic religious programs by using thematic analysis method and then, on the basis of this means, the study tries to criticize one of the religious Iranian serial made in Iran by the name of “Yousef”. In this study, ...
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This research is trying to make a religious critical means for criticizing dramatic religious programs by using thematic analysis method and then, on the basis of this means, the study tries to criticize one of the religious Iranian serial made in Iran by the name of “Yousef”. In this study, we have used narration studies and especially characterization studies and as a result, it can be said that Yousef and Yaqub characters in Yousef serial have not been characterized on the basis of the themes of prophets that they represent in Quran. In the case of Yaqub, it can be said that “patience and trust in God” are the core themes in the Qur’anic narration, but in characterizing Yaqub in the serial, the character has not been characterized thoroughly. Also In the case of Yusef, it can be said that “patience and virtue” are the core themes in the Qur’anic narration, but in characterizing Yusef in the serial, the character has not been characterized thoroughly as far as "virtue" is concerned, although characterizing “patience” is a proper one in the serial of Yousef.
zohreh saeidi
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Kant has discussed the subject of culture for the highest good of the human being which expresses man's desirable perfection in the midst of virtue and happiness which is its ultimate goal of him. He previously presented an abstract and ideal concept of the highest good in the second critique ...
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Kant has discussed the subject of culture for the highest good of the human being which expresses man's desirable perfection in the midst of virtue and happiness which is its ultimate goal of him. He previously presented an abstract and ideal concept of the highest good in the second critique that it was based on God's help. In the third critique, he uses the concept of culture to show the concrete aspect of the highest good which two components of it are discipline and skill. these two are the virtue and the happiness respectivly. The concept is based on human automomous struggle and activity and it will be realized as a social aim through the human subject. According to Kant, the greatest emergence of culture is reasonable freedom. Reasonable freedom involves inner freedom which observes morality and exterior freedom which observs social happiness. Growth and development of reasonable freedom in the human race and throughout history and over generations will lead stubbornness of reason over the world and domination of the culture of freedom.
Mohammad Mahdi Vahidi; Seyed Mohammad Mahdizadeh
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September 11, 2001 was an important historical turning point for the United States. On this day, the contentment of the peace among people of the world, which began with the end of the Cold War and the destruction of communism, ended symbolically with the appearance of a new enemy. After that event, ...
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September 11, 2001 was an important historical turning point for the United States. On this day, the contentment of the peace among people of the world, which began with the end of the Cold War and the destruction of communism, ended symbolically with the appearance of a new enemy. After that event, we have witnessed a discursive shift in the US mainstream media about the "Other" and the "East". In this article, by referring to the "Bildungsroman" idea and by using analytical tools of social semiotic of images, we will analyze the construction of the "Self" and, in contrast, the Other in US television. In our opinion, television is a suitable place for the production of what social semiotic theorists refer to as "Semiotic Resource". In this article, we have focused on an exceptional sequence from the Homeland television series, and after a thorough review of this sequence, we have found that the Self has found a specific definition in this TV-Series. She is a white woman of European descent (Authentic American). On the other hand, we have a male character with authentic American appearance which has turned into an enemy of the United States and he is planning an attack on US land. We have pointed out that the producers of this TV-Series have emphasized on the danger of apparently Americans who serve the enemies and can threat and attack USA from inside. In our article, we have also examined representational frameworks of post-racial and multicultural identity in this TV-series.
Zahra Zamani
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Identical Foundations is changes with Rapidly Progress Technology, the depth changes in society’s, Pass of Productivity society to Consumption society and Body as Identity Media.In this condition body is an social media. This Research with Qualitative method about plastic surgery and Identity Types ...
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Identical Foundations is changes with Rapidly Progress Technology, the depth changes in society’s, Pass of Productivity society to Consumption society and Body as Identity Media.In this condition body is an social media. This Research with Qualitative method about plastic surgery and Identity Types among 21 Hemadanian Youth whit help Granted Theory. Obtained Results Show that Me with Stigma, I in negative my, face Dine causal Condition in plastic surgery. Body Ideal Image, religion Belief Basically Condition to plastic surgery. Age situation, Youth Culture intervene Condition in Cosmetic surgery. In counter with this Condition, doctor and noise model select as strategic plastic. Researcher Participant according with abstained or not abstained to body ideal image, change or not change in self-identity and contained or not contained secondary idea change indicator to 3 type Reconstruct identity with positive experience, reconstruct identity with negative experience and Legitimatized identity recognized which resulted plastic surgery different according to identity type.
mohsen zarifineya; mahmood bashiri
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Lifestyle is a set of behavioral principles in different areas of life. In recent decades, in order to "apply" its concept in literary circles, the audience has encountered the positive and negative functions of lifestyle in fiction literature, and by studying mental and objective cases, his mind has ...
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Lifestyle is a set of behavioral principles in different areas of life. In recent decades, in order to "apply" its concept in literary circles, the audience has encountered the positive and negative functions of lifestyle in fiction literature, and by studying mental and objective cases, his mind has been drawn to superior styles. The important point is to reread the warriors' lifestyles in the fictional literature of the Holy Defense. this rereading can reflect the cultural, military, social, and political identities of Iranian border guards to realize the idealism of "defending" the land and society's beliefs in individuals in order to preserve its precious achievements, especially in times of crisis. In fact, recognizing the source of the behavioral motivations of the defenders of the homeland reveals the capacities of Iranian thought and culture and the power of the "defense" strategy. The aim of the present study is to analyze the characteristics of lifestyle in the novels " Heedless Palm Trees " and "Roots in the Depths" with the discourse method of "Ernstolaclau" (Laclau, E). In this method, the connection of lifestyle components express how the jihadist identity of the fighters is created. Research findings show that the behavioral causes of the characters are based on adherence to the principles of religious beliefs and national zeal, which has also led to the achievement of independence and security of the country.
Ali Rabiee; Rezvaneh Erfani Hossein Pour
Volume 14, Issue 23 , December 2013, , Pages 171-194
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Media usage, as a form of cultural consumption, is the process of communicating with the media products and using the content to reach particular goals. The increasing accessibility and consumption of international TV channels in Iran and the competition between these channels and Iranian ones, is important ...
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Media usage, as a form of cultural consumption, is the process of communicating with the media products and using the content to reach particular goals. The increasing accessibility and consumption of international TV channels in Iran and the competition between these channels and Iranian ones, is important for media studies. Studying the audiences' readings, as well as content and organizational analysis, would be helpful to understand the hidden aspects of this subject.
Present paper is a try to understand Iranian students' readings of one of the programs in Voice of America TV channel: The Parazit. Applying the perception theory, we studied the functions and read the media content in different ways and, therefore, their consumption of political gratifications of their consumption. The results of the deep interviews with 15 students show that the youth opponent channels does not mean disagreement with whole positions of Islamic Republic of Iran. Instead, the critical approach of the Parazit to some public behaviors was interesting for them.
Zahra Hamedi Shirvan; Shahla Sharifi
Volume 15, Issue 25 , June 2014, , Pages 171-196
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Abstract Importance and significant role of the media discourse in general, and newspapers, in particular, on awareness, as well as directing and shaping public opinion is clear for every individual. In the second chapter of the press law that is related to the mission of the press; one of the missions ...
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Abstract Importance and significant role of the media discourse in general, and newspapers, in particular, on awareness, as well as directing and shaping public opinion is clear for every individual. In the second chapter of the press law that is related to the mission of the press; one of the missions is "To enlighten public opinion and raising the level of their knowledge". This paper examines the level of awareness, clarity of expression (explicitation) or vice versa, implicitation in some literary texts within the framework of the analysis of critical discourse of Norman Fairclough. Discourse-oriented structures of these texts include nomenclature and references, metaphors, irony and allegory. Data examination of this paper suggests that the application of the three components of metaphor, irony and allegory in the texts leads to the explicitation and implicitation. Regarding the manner of application, nomenclature and reference component can be resulted in the explicitation or implicitation and the fact that the newspapers describe the events based on their own views, ideologies and intended targets.
Fatemeh Mehrabi; Behrouz Avazpour
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The proliferation of technology and the development of artificial intelligence in modern life, especially in the field of human communication, has become an opportunity to make fundamental changes in this field, both in human-machine and human relationships. These developments, as much as they can make ...
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The proliferation of technology and the development of artificial intelligence in modern life, especially in the field of human communication, has become an opportunity to make fundamental changes in this field, both in human-machine and human relationships. These developments, as much as they can make human relationships successful, may also be responsible for their decline. Therefore, the present study has examined this issue in the context of cinema and in particular Spike Jonze' film "Her" by considering one of the areas that have presented the opportunities and challenges in recent years. Artificial intelligence in shaping human relationships and human-machine relationships. The chosen method for the analysis of this film is the myth-analysis method, which provides an analysis of the artworks concerning their social background. The findings of this study indicate that the most important factor in the success of the film is its adherence to shaping patterns in intelligence-related mythical narratives, so understanding and analyzing relationships in mythical narratives can lead to an understanding of human-machine relations in modern life and Under the influence of artificial intelligence.
ayoob omidi; maryam mosharraf; abolghasem esmailpour
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One of the methods has been common for Badness-removing from the past to the present is the sacrificial ritual. This ritual is one of the manifestations of worship and is believed to be religious and ideological practice. This research which is a qualitative study, tries to study the ritual of sacrifice ...
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One of the methods has been common for Badness-removing from the past to the present is the sacrificial ritual. This ritual is one of the manifestations of worship and is believed to be religious and ideological practice. This research which is a qualitative study, tries to study the ritual of sacrifice in the popular culture of Ivan city using a phenomenological approach; The sampling method was a snowball using semi-structured interviews to investigate beliefs about sacrifice among 18 elderly people in Ivan City and its six villages. The results of the research show that the sacrifice in the Ivan's popular culture can be analyzed in five sections and is often carried out for the purpose of Badness-removing and malevolent ward off. The important point is that due to the lack of financial resources in the traditional community, most sacrifices are made without blood except in important celebrations and events such as birth, marriage, mourning, difficult illness and pilgrimage trips that blood sacrifices being offered. In such cases, they believe that if no blood is shed, that disaster won't be repelled. Regarding the moderation of the sacrifice in popular culture, it can be said that the first sacrifice is more commonly in the bloodstream and the more we go, Animal corps replaces with the non-bloody sacrifice, as blood donations are limited to a limited extent today. Mostly sacrifice is offered in the form of prayer, sacrifice or donation of charity and money; including the vow of hair, which is later moderated by the replacement of money, jewelry and forgiveness. One of the most important factors of moderation is the expansion of awareness and understanding of superstitions and the importance of animals such as cattle and sheep in agricultural life and activity.
