جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « خردگرایی » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

The present paper attempted to measure the sense of belonging to the Iranian society and studied its influential factors. The social belonging variable was defined in two dimensions: emotional belonging and practical belonging. For this purpose, we selected 1016 people from the 22 regions of Tehran as our sample and distributed the researcher-made questionnaire to them. The research findings revealed that belongingness in Iranian society is at an average level and the variables of religious belonging, social trust, rationality, and socio-economic status have associations with the belongingness. They also demonstrated that the background variables such as educational level, age, and marital status are related to the dependent variable explained 0/325 changes in emotional belonging and 0/321 in practical belonging. We also realized that rationality and religious belongings had influenced social belonging differently.

The present paper attempts to study fairies and fairy-like women in the folk-tales in Hormozgan. The folk-tales and myth in Hormozgan, like other components of the folk culture, are full of diverse mythological motifs, the old beliefs, and rituals of the nation. Therefore, it has the potential to be used as an important source for studying the Iranian culture and thought, anthropology, sociology, and generally cultural studies. Fairy as a mythological and super-natural being in the structure of Hormozgan’s folk-tales has been embodied as an earthly and wise being, and has turned to a beautiful girl. Nevertheless, it is still a marvelous creature who displays its fairy-like characteristics and attributes in many tales. In these tales, fairies and fairy-like women appear to men as a human being or an animal in order to fulfill their reproductive roles. Then, they try to marry them through love expression. Their roles end after giving birth to a baby, and then they disappear from the tale.

The present paper aims to study the Iranian-made movie “Aroos-e-Atash” (The Bride of Fire), using semiotic methodology at the three following levels: description (social codes), representation (technical codes) and ideology (ideological codes). The process of interconnections and interactions between these three types of codes resulted in these findings: although the movie enjoys an emancipation dimension and tries to challenge an inhumane tradition (violation of women rights), it totally ignores cultural considerations and adopts a modernist approach (populist, intellectualistic, individualistic, etc.) to review tribal traditions and customs. The film attempts to employ various signs at the three abovementioned levels to place the average urban culture in contrast with tribal culture and judge the tribe’s customs and traditions without considering tribal cultural-social attributes. Such a judgment is far from leading to understanding of cultural differences, but rather would bring about the “marginalization” of the “other”.