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Reza Pishghadam; Aida Firooziyan Pour Esfahani
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Considering the Hymes’ SPEAKING model (1967), the current qualitative research examines the use of the expression "I don't know" (/nemidānam/) in Persian language to come up with its different discourse functions. To achieve this goal, 450 natural contexts in which this linguistic sample was used, ...
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Considering the Hymes’ SPEAKING model (1967), the current qualitative research examines the use of the expression "I don't know" (/nemidānam/) in Persian language to come up with its different discourse functions. To achieve this goal, 450 natural contexts in which this linguistic sample was used, were recorded, transcribed, and later analyzed. Therefore, the required data was collected purposefully from the natural context through observation. Hymes' model was then applied, and finally the uses of this label were sociologically investigated. The hidden motivation behind the use of ‘I don’t know’ in Persian language in the condition that the speaker has the demanded information is to consider the principles of politeness and to save the face of the addressee. Based on the findings of the research, different functions of ‘I don't know’ in Persian can be classified under five broad categories of ‘Minimizing face-threatening acts’, ‘Avoiding explicit disagreement’, ‘Marking uncertainty’, ‘Displaying indirectness’ and ‘Avoiding commitment’.
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ali rabiee; zahra zakerinasrabadi; nasrin ghalani
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Identifying the providing factors of common identity in the areas of immigration is essential to prevent multiplicity of identity and cultural conflict. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of three types of social capital – bonding, bridging and linking- on the construction of social ...
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Identifying the providing factors of common identity in the areas of immigration is essential to prevent multiplicity of identity and cultural conflict. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of three types of social capital – bonding, bridging and linking- on the construction of social and national identity in the immigrants. Population is all of the 15 to 45 years old immigrants who have migrated to "Shahinshahr", one of the immigrants absorber cities in Isfahan. 150 of those were selected by stratified sampling and were studied. The results show that, despite its high level of participation and confidence in the bonding networks rather than other networks (mean equals 4.2), just the linking social capital, in the sense of relations between people with different levels of power, explains %23 of the variance in social identity and 41% of the variance in national identity. Therefore, the main factor providing common identity and consensus is to go beyond the limited family and kinship networks. These results adapt with conditions of social networks in developing countries. In these countries, the useful and long connections between individuals and governmental networks is effective in the elimination of alienation and commitment to national common values.
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maryam soroush; Mohammad T. Iman
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The object is to compare leisure patterns in adolescents (15-18 years) and adults (35-55 years) and the logic of their formation in Iranian families. Gender identity and religiosity role in these patterns are also investigated. 2615 adolescent and adult using cluster random sampling in 15 districts ...
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The object is to compare leisure patterns in adolescents (15-18 years) and adults (35-55 years) and the logic of their formation in Iranian families. Gender identity and religiosity role in these patterns are also investigated. 2615 adolescent and adult using cluster random sampling in 15 districts of Isfahan were chosen in this survey. Leisure practices were analyzed in three groups (individual, family base and friend base leisure) using factor analysis to obtain patterns. Family leisure in adolescents had two patterns. Individual leisure had three patterns and friend base leisure in two patterns was categorized. Individual and family leisure in adult group had 3 patterns each and finally friend base leisure was categorized in 2 patterns similar to adolescents. Findings show that individual patterns are different in adolescent and adults qualitatively. Film and music are matter a lot for adolescents and it is religiosity which makes the patterns different. In adult group gender identity and education make patterns distinct. Some individual and family patterns had significant negative relationship with religiosity. We did cluster analysis using individual leisure patterns for age groups. We found a high religious and three less religious clusters in adolescents and an educated, less traditional cluster along with a less educated, traditional group of adults. First group got high scores in religious patterns of leisure and second group had lower scores in religious patterns but they are more active in family base patterns.
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hadi khaniki; mohammad atabak; farid azizi
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With increasing of the expanding role of the cyberspace in social life, fundamental questions has been created such as about the social and political effects of the cyberspace and its related technologies. The aim of this study is to analyze the situation of Facebook social network with the approach ...
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With increasing of the expanding role of the cyberspace in social life, fundamental questions has been created such as about the social and political effects of the cyberspace and its related technologies. The aim of this study is to analyze the situation of Facebook social network with the approach of the Habermasian’s public sphere and possibility of the formation of virtual public sphere. For this purpose 8 Groups through active facebook groups purposefully have been selected and by using qualitative content analysis have been studied. The findings show that users by tracking issues discussed in virtual networks in connection with their social world, can have a more active role in public sphere. Findings also showed that Facebook, despite providing access for citizens to various information and the opportunity to speak on various topics, for reasons such as the uneven distribution of different capitals, superficial nature of the information, discontinuation of raised issues, Overcoming the display on the idea, fun aspect of the content, the lack of critical nature of the content and so on does not have the ability to become a virtual public sphere
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Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh; leila bagheri
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In recent years, the life style has been taken into consideration by experts and of different fields, particularly the social sciences as a new mechanism for different individuals in spending their leisure time, body management and cultural In recent years, the lifestyle has been taken into consideration ...
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In recent years, the life style has been taken into consideration by experts and of different fields, particularly the social sciences as a new mechanism for different individuals in spending their leisure time, body management and cultural In recent years, the lifestyle has been taken into consideration by experts and different fields, particularly the social sciences as a new mechanism for presentation of people’s taste differences in quality of leisure time spending, body management and cultural consumption in order to planning and policy making. One of the aims of the present study was to determine the procedure of conducted study with emphasis on the quality and quantity of the produced knowledge in this field. That’s why 59 scientific sources (i.e., article, dissertation and book) were collected by searching “life style” word on the scientific databases, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology, national library, Noor specialized journal, Scientific information of Jihad University, and the libraries in Tehran universities and then data were analyzed using systematic review. The obtained results suggested that more than two thirds of studies concerning the lifestyle has been conducted during 2006 – 2011. Six types of lifestyle has been extracted where the quasi-modern lifestyle (34.12%), pre-modern or traditional lifestyle (28/94%), pleasure-centered, science-centered, local- world, and sport-centered were among the types that was highly analyzed. The attention to the lifestyle with emphasis on its relationship with variables of cultural capital, economic capital, religiosity has been highly studied and analyzed.
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Homayun Moradkhani; Ali Asghar Esmaeilzadeh
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The aim of this paper is the study of crime and criminal images in Iranian Cinema. The main question is that how Iranian films represent issues of crime and criminality. In this study, theoretical framework is representation theory, and analyzed based on 57 films. The films are produced in period between ...
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The aim of this paper is the study of crime and criminal images in Iranian Cinema. The main question is that how Iranian films represent issues of crime and criminality. In this study, theoretical framework is representation theory, and analyzed based on 57 films. The films are produced in period between 1380 to 1394, and research method is quantitative content analysis. The hypothesis of this study is that films present a type of popular knowledge about crime and criminality to audiences. The findings supported this hypothesis, they show that Iranian films represent different information about criminals, age, gender, social class and family situation. Also, films usually display social problems related to criminals, and try to explain criminality in their discourses and narrations.
Research Paper
Hasan Khojasteh Bagherzadeh
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Over the time, the media produce their products based on defined normative models demonstrated by organizational structure. This models have been transformed into powerful cliché which is not became possible to be released. Hence, finding a different model to present content ...
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Over the time, the media produce their products based on defined normative models demonstrated by organizational structure. This models have been transformed into powerful cliché which is not became possible to be released. Hence, finding a different model to present content is always one of the important concerns in media organizations. It is affected not only content type but also different scopes of organization, including production procedure, Arrangement of organizational structure and human resource model. Accordingly, in this article it has tried to present An Alternative normative model for media content production by descriptive- analytic method and categorization, while presenting the current and common models of classifying content production, based on twenty years of experience in the line and staff management sections at national media. Although, these Models are distinct from each other due to categorization, they might be tolerably put on the general content categories like social, political etc. This normative model of content classification is based on people’s ordinary life and the events surrounding it, having the ability to use them for content production in different types of media.
