Journal of Iranian Social Studies

Abstract The main purpose of this research was to investigate students’ social networking in learning-innovation process. This research was carried out using qualitative exploratory approach through the method of grounded theory (systematic method, Strauss & Corbin). The purposeful sampling of study included 47 students from Shahid Beheshti University, Sharif University of Technology, and University of Tehran. The collected data were analyzed via coding procedures (open, axial & selective coding). The results of student’s learning-innovation network model indicate that “management of learning system” is regarded as the core category of student’s social networking. Therefore, the learning system develops interpersonal networks of students. Thus, there is a wide range of consciously and multi-dimensional social participation and social wandering in context of education, which ultimately leads to a variety of consequences from innovation to academic burnout.    

Abstract The name of the children indicates the identity and traits of parents in most places. The selected names for children can be indicative of cultural, political, and ethnic orientations of individuals. The selection of different names, and their changes over time are influenced by different subcultures and indicate the strength and weakness of different ideational traits in different societies. Evolution of name selecting for children from the view point of national and ethnic identities shows the tendency towards integration in society. Therefore, this study investigates the changes of the names during 2003-2013 and explain the factors causing these changes The results of the study indicate that a series of factors have changed the naming of children in Kurdistan province. These factors include the dysfunctions of the political system, the expansion of communication and communication tools, the weakening of national discourse, the ineffectiveness of the educational system, religious differences, and the existence of ethnic discourse in this province  

Abstract In this article, the conditions, interactions, consequences, and activities carried out on women's addiction in the province of Alborz have been understood from the view point of the officials of the Alborz. The method is qualitative and in the process of research, grounded theory has been used. The data were collected using the deep interview technique method. According to theoretical sampling method and theoretical saturation criterion, 19 officials from the Alborz province participated in the study. The results of categorization indicate 10 major categories. Social learning and coping pressure, family tension, weakness of control system, lack of support after addiction ceasing, treatment centers for cured people, awareness and education for preventing addiction, culture of various institutions, healing centers in the Alborz province, NGOs, and increasing prevalence of women addiction were the major categories. The core category was "Increasing trend of women addiction due to structural pressure and inconsistencies of organizations".  

Abstract Increase of spiritual, athletic or therapeutic groups with mental soothing functions is evident in current Iranian society and represents its cultural changes. One of these phenomena is the Energy therapy, about which, there is no reliable theoretical and empirical recognition in our society. Related discussions indicate that Energy therapy emerges in different theoretical and practical forms. It is probably based on one reality which is not recognized scientifically and objectively yet, as its therapeutic effect neither is denied nor is proved. Nevertheless,Energy therapy exists as a social reality in our society. This study is a field-qualitative research based on coding the interviews produced from the report of participants' observations in the energy-clinics. The findings describe the relations of these activists to their social environment, the features of their classes, their beliefs about Energy therapy, the distinctions of their particular style, and finally, the consequences of their participation in the classes. One of the results is that contrary to popular perception, pure Energy therapy is not related to the spiritual traits of participants.
 
 

Abstract Tourism is a complex social, economic, political, cultural process, and requires a sociological look that can accurately and scientifically analyze all these relations between tourism and other sectors of society. One of these relationships is the relationship between travel experience and the personality system. Travel experience is considered as a variable that is related to the personality system of the people, and travel and recreation can give special attributes to the personality of the individuals. This study aims at explaining the relationship between travel experience and the personality system. In this way, Eric Cohen and Parsons' theory has been used to configure the theoretical framework. Data were collected through a quantitative method. The results of data analysis showed that there is a significant correlation between all three types of travel experience and personality system. The variables of existential experience and recreational experience have a direct and positive correlation with personality system and the experimental experience has a negative correlation with the dependent variable.  

Abstract Urban spaces, streets, squares, and parks in a city are among places where public activities are occurring. Some other spaces, where due to the lack of visual outlook, are unprotected and more capable of committing crime. The current research was conducted in unprotected urban spaces in the Navab street of Tehran. It aims to study the origins of criminal activities in this district and to provide solutions to increase security based on women participation in society. This qualitative study was conducted via grounded theory approach, emphasizing on Durkheim’s anomie theory, Wilson and Kling’s theory of broken windows. The participants included 40 individuals who resided in Navab Street and neighborhood of Salamat Park in District 11 of Tehran. Social and cultural conditions of residents, the degree of satisfaction of families living in this area, disruptions have been occurred in the functioning of residents were under examination in the survey. The findings indicated three major categories of social security including threat to family health (physical and psychological), and disruption in socio-cultural constructive actions. According to the results, local women considered participation in solving district’s problems to be inconclusive. Dominance of this view in the families had adverse effects on the quality of their life. The study encourages women to occupy these spaces for selling their hand works, trying to put an end on the dominance of criminals and offenders in these spaces.