The Chain of Lacks: Exacerbation of the Crisis in Marginal Areas (Facing of the Citizens of the Suburbs of Sanandaj with Covid-19)
Yaghoub
Ahmadi
Associate professor of Sociology, Payamnoor University
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Mohammad
Siddiq Mohammadi
Ph.D. in Sociology of Social Problems, Kashan University
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Farhad
Ebrahimi
M.A in Sociology, Kashan University
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text
article
2020
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The consequences of the Coronavirus outbreak are so widespread that many social scientists expect the formation of a different world with distinct features called the post-corona world. Such a statement shows the importance of the issue and the extent of its impacts on various aspects and areas of human life around the globe. Undoubtedly, such consequences will have long-term and severe effects on marginal and less-favored areas around the world, including Iran. This study aims to examine how the citizens of Sanandaj’s suburbs confront social problems with a focus on the strategies, facilities, and opportunities of the citizens in the particular case of the Coronavirus. The research was conducted using the grounded theory method. Required data were collected using interviews and was analyzed using Atlas T software. Following the coding process, which yields 56 codes and five key categories, the central category "chain of lack" was introduced as the output of how to deal with the Coronavirus and its surrounding components of Sanandaj’s suburban residents. According to the paradigm model, the term “chain of lack” originates from causal conditions such as social deprivation and social inequality, which can be described with the emergence of mediating factors such as lack of skills, knowledge, and support with underlying conditions such as recession, inflation, mistrust, frustration, depression and lack of access to cyberspace. In brief, marginalized people are victims of their own social and economic circumstances and are more likely to experience problems, indicating that the coronavirus, is not a "democratic" virus, contrary to common belief.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
14
v.
2
no.
2020
4
35
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_243848_312888d6aacb2f2c78635a284a180a70.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22034/jss.2020.243848
A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Elderly 60-90-Year-Old of Shiraz with Corona
Reza
Esmaeeli
Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Cultural Planning, Islamic Azad university of Isfahan (Khorasgan)
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Zeinab
Ghadarbandfard Shirazi
Faculty Member, Department of Social Sciences, Payame Nour university of Tehran
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text
article
2020
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The outbreak of the unknown COVIID-19 virus quickly became a world pandemic, challenged collective life in economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions, and became the most important socio-medical issue. As the elderly are identified as the main vulnerable group to this virus, it is important to investigate their experience of the corona pandemic. The present study is based on a qualitative approach with a phenomenological method of Colaizzi’s practical plan. It aims to explain the experience of elderlies in Shiraz during the Coronavirus outbreak. Purposive sampling was used to select 15 participants who were surveyed in a semi-structured in-depth interview. The elderlies lived experience was classified into 10 main categories of a shift in daily life flow, mental, and family anxiety, redefining concepts, pleasure, opportunity, stigma, resilience capacity, fatalism, expediency, and expediency along with fatalism.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
14
v.
2
no.
2020
36
58
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_243851_62eff2c3d4707b17bf08477a111345a7.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22034/jss.2020.243851
Sociological Explanation of Resilience of Women in Tehran in the Face of Covid-19 Disease
Masoumeh
Cheraghi
PhD student of Sociology of Social Groups, Islamic Azad University Research & Science Branch
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majid
kaffashi
Associate Professor, Islamic Azad University Roudehen Branch
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Nayyer
Pirahary
Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University Garmasar Branch
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Ali
Baghaei Sarabi
Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University of Central Tehran Branch
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Majid
Kashani
Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University of Central Tehran Branch
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article
2020
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Crisis management is in poor condition in Iran, and people, especially women, suffer greatly as a result of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and disease outbreaks. In these situations, usually injured people are not able to easily return to a balanced and adaptable status. This article has been conducted to explain the sociology of women's resilience in regards to corona disease in Tehran’s districts 3 and 12. The research was based on survey method and made use of research tools to measure resilience, Mohammadi Questionnaire (2016), Lifestyle (LSQ Questionnaire), Belief Perspective (Allport Religious Orientation Questionnaire), Childhood Education (Quality of Life Questionnaire), and Life Satisfaction (SWLS Life Satisfaction Questionnaire). The sample size included 402 women 15-69 years old living in two districts of 3 and 12 who were selected using a quota sampling method. According to the findings, there is a relationship between resilience and variables of belief perspective, childhood education, and physical ability of women in district 12. And the link between resilience and lifestyle variables, childhood education, and the life satisfaction of women was found in district 3. Women's beliefs have the greatest impact on resilience in both areas.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
14
v.
2
no.
2020
59
82
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_243854_0a345234f6b1c2849a2b901abb80618f.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22034/jss.2020.243854
Corona and the Closure of the Shrines: Reinterpretation in the Face of Denial of Access to the Sacred Place
Neda
Razavi Zadeh
Assistant Professor, Sociology Research Group, Tourism Research Institute, Jihad Daneshgahi of Mashahd, n.razavi@gmail.com
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somaye
Varshoei
PhD in Sociology, Sociology Research Group, Tourism Research Institute, Jihad Daneshgahi of Mashad
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text
article
2020
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Although the pilgrimage to holy places is a spiritual experience at the first glance, it is full of materialistic, embodied, and emotional components. With the outbreak of coronavirus in late 1398, to prevent the spread of the disease, holy places and mass rituals in most parts of the world, as well as Iran, were closed for an unknown period. This situation created an experience that was unprecedented in the collective memory of contemporary Iranians. These conditions severely questioned the boundaries of the sacred concept and the scope of the sacred agency. Considering that such an event and experience has not been studied in sociological studies of religion in Iran, the present study, relying on the phenomenological approach of material manifestations of religion, aimed to explore the experience of the pilgrims. In this article, in addition to presenting the typology of positions against the closure of the shrines, the emotional experience and cognitive exposure of pilgrims to this prohibition is described.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
14
v.
2
no.
2020
83
110
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_243856_5ba74362610965fb53eab9a23079f21a.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22034/jss.2020.243856
Sociological Analysis of Coronavirus-Related Jokes
(Emphasizing the Jokes Exchanged on the Telegram)
Parnia
Razi Pour
PhD in Sociology, Islamic Azad University of Central Tehran Branch
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text
article
2020
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This study aims to conduct a sociological analysis of jokes about the Coronavirus in the Telegram social network. Paying attention to the origin and social concerns presented in the content of jokes about the Coronavirus plays an important role in understanding the opinions and the reactions of people in the community to this virus. The present study uses the qualitative content analysis approach to investigate the content of jokes shared on Telegram. The results show that jokes, like popular social texts, can reflect a broad range of issues, from family and healthy relationships to economic, political, and social issues in critical situations.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
14
v.
2
no.
2020
111
134
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_243857_1da2467fb877988292c65227204f1259.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22034/jss.2020.243857
The Lived Experience of Subordinates during Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of Construction and Cleaning Workers of District 17 of Tehran
Mohammad
Yazdaninasab
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University
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article
2020
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This study explores the lived experience of cleaning and construction workers in Tehran’s District 17 during the Covid-19 pandemic. The reason for selecting these groups of workers was their marginal situation. The theoretical concepts of objective inequality, interpretive inequality, subjective powerlessness, and stigma were used to analyze the data in this study. The study’s methodological approach is interpretative phenomenology, with in-depth interviews and narrative analysis. Seven male construction workers and five female cleaning workers made up the sample. The participants lived in Tehran district 17 and were selected using targeted and snowball sampling. The results indicate that the pandemic has intensified the marginalization of these two groups. A wide gap between Coronavirus policies and the reality on the ground was obvious. All policymakers' plan and programs are limited to cash and non-cash donations, thereby reducing policymaking to institutional charity work with little concern on the structural position of the lower classes of society.
Journal of Iranian Social Studies
انجمن جامعه شناسی ایران
2008-3653
14
v.
2
no.
2020
135
160
http://www.jss-isa.ir/article_243859_29160bbac73b475e9bbf6ffc99b8e33c.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22034/jss.2020.243859