Journal of Iranian Social Studies

Abstract The main objective of the study was to investigate the simultaneous effects of social structures and learning processes on the attitude towards honor killings. This study is cross-sectional and conducted using survey method. The population of the study consists of all men and women over 18 years of Marivan in Kurdistan province that 384 of them have been selected by applying Cochran's sampling formula as the final sample. Using cluster sampling method, researcher made questionnaire, distributed among the respondents and required data were collected. The theoretical framework of the study is the Social Structure - Social Learning (SS-SL) of Ronald Akers. The results of the study indicated that 19.4 percent of respondents have a positive attitude towards honor killings (27.6 percent of men and 5.3 percent of women), while the attitude of 38.2 percent (28.1 percent of men versus 55.6 percent of women) were negative. In addition, the analytical results showed that the social learning variables are the most powerful and important predictors of attitude toward honor killings. Among the structural factors, variables such as feeling of gender inequality, the acceptance of patriarchal beliefs, and religiosity, are the most important predictor variables of attitude toward honor killings. The findings support the theory of Social Structure- Social Learning (SS-SL), indicating that the impact of structural variables on attitude toward honor killings, are mediated by social learning variables.
 

Abstract Stress Process Paradigm (SPP) is configured in 1980’s to study the impacts of social factors on the production and distribution of stress related to mental disorders. Over the past three decades, this paradigm maintained its dominance in the field of sociological studies of stress. Stress process as a conceptual model is consisting of three main components: Stressors (social sources of stress production), Mediators (psycho-social factors which mediate stress), and Health outcomes (reactions to stress). According to SPP, all of the suitable and unsuitable life events are potentially the sources of stress production; though in terms of time sequence, it is possible to draw a spectrum from trauma to chronic stressors. Furthermore,the social support (structural or functional) and coping responses are the most important mediators of stress. Finally, a reaction to stress is determined by sociocultural factors, such as; emotions, cultures, social norms, and social learning of emotions expression. SPP as a sociological framework is concentrated on the role of social structures and social contexts in the shaping the patterns of distribution of stress related mental disorders. The main purpose of present paper is to discuss those issues which must be considered by sociologists at the time of studying stress process. Since, the main strategy of social research in this field is to identify the connecting circles between social arrangements and individual stress, therefore the paper is trying to propose a conceptual as well as analytical framework, to assist the presentation and elaboration of sociology of stress in Iran.