جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "اجتماع علمی" در نشریات گروه "علوم تربیتی"

This study aimed to present a model for understanding the problematization of the scientific community among faculty members in Iran's higher education system.

This research employed a qualitative meta-synthesis approach, analyzing and synthesizing 25 selected research articles on the scientific community of faculty members using Strauss and Corbin's systematic grounded theory method.

The research model illustrates the conditions under which faculty members find, or fail to find, opportunities to form and develop a scientific community. Consequently, the concept of "opportunity for the formation of a scientific community" was identified as the core category of the model. This model also explains the causal factors that influence the process of forming and developing a scientific community in universities, identifying the context and characteristics under which such a community can or cannot be formed, the interventions and strategies that can impact this process, and how these factors lead to outcomes influenced by the presence or absence of a scientific community.
Conclusions and Suggestions: The scientific community of faculty members in Iran’s higher education does not form in a vacuum; it is continuously shaped by causes arising from the context and intervening variables, leading to different outcomes. Therefore, policymakers must understand this situation and adopt appropriate measures in higher education planning to form and develop a scientific community in Iran's higher education system.

Innovation and originality: 

The innovation and originality of this research lie in its comprehensive, process-oriented approach, relying on a systematic analysis of established knowledge of the subject, providing a clear depiction of the current state and the transition towards the desired state, thus offering guidance for academic and managerial stakeholders in the formation and development of the faculty members’ community in Iranian universities.

Communication is one of the main mechanisms for developing science and considered important among science sociologists. Communication and interactions are essence of science growth. The interaction and communication among students and faculties are regarded also as most important university assets. In this study، the ways of social and scientific interactions and communications of Sharif University''s student was investigated. A quantitative survey research method was chosen for this study. The statistical population included all Sharif University’s students from whom 150 students were randomly selected. Research findings indicated that scientific and social interactions among students were above average، but communication between faculties and students in both scientific and social were low. Students'' scientific communication with each other in terms of gender was significantly different. Scientific communication among girls was higher than boys. But students'' social communications with each other and scientific and social communication of faculties with students in terms of gender were not significantly different. The findings of the present study also indicated a correlation between the faculties'' social and scientific communication with students in terms of students'' educational level. According to these findings the faculties had better scientific and social interactions with the students with higher educational level.

As a sociological investigation, this study aims to examine the problems of sociology’s graduate students in finding dissertation research topics. This study was carried out as a descriptive and qualitative survey in which 30 students and professors at the Tehran, Alzahra and Allameh Tabatabaei universities were interviewed. Difficulties among students in finding research topic (problem) were explained by “socialization”, “paradigm” and “scientific community” concepts. Therefore, the weakness in creating scientific communities and paradigms in sociology were considered as research assumptions resulted in some difficulties through which students will be faced a problematic circumstances in their socialization processes. This at the end causes that students will confront with difficulties in finding research problem for their dissertations. The findings indicated that graduate students are confronting some relevant difficulties including the lack of interesting field, the lack of sociological questions, being doubtful about finding research problem, problems which are related to school and university educational system, the lack of scientific debates at the departments of sociology and little interactions amongst professors with each other and with their students are among problems.

The purpose of this research was to examine internal and external challenges of scientific communities in Mazandaran University. A research survey method and a questionnaire were used to collect data. By means of proportionate stratified method، two hundred eighty faculty members and master students were randomly sampled from a population of 1095 people across Mazandaran University. The findings were as follows: 1) There is no significant difference between faculty members and students'' attitude toward external challenges of academic system. 2) There is significant difference between faculty members and students'' attitude toward internal challenges of academic system. 3) There is significant relationship between internal and external challenges of scientific communities in Mazandran University. In addition، results suggested that there are bonds and relationship between scientific communities'' problems and problems of society’s social system.

The present study aims to examine and understand the sociological factors involved in scientific output Esfahan University’s scientific community in an exact and scientific way.The study starts with the investigation of different approaches used in the study of scientific output and is followed by the identification of the factors which are involved in scientific output. At this stage, the researcher approaches the issue from the standpoint of a number of theorists in the field of scientific community such as Randall Collins, Hagstrom, Kuhn, Latour and Woolgar. This study is designed as a survey and gathered through quota sampling. The statistical population is comprised of all the full time academic members, PhD candidates and second year MA students who were present at Esfahan University in the academic year 2009-2010 and yields a total of 2,865 individuals altogether. Amongst the population, a sample of 340 individuals was selected as the actual participants of the study.The following are the most important results obtained from the present study:- of the different departments, the Department of Basic sciences showed the highest amount of scientific output which is in sharp contrast to the results obtained from the Technical and Engineering Department showing the lowest amount of scientific output.-The variables, “interactions and relations”, “emotional energy”, and “epistemic consensus” also indicate a positive and meaningful relationship with scientific output.-In the regression model, however, the variable “symbolic attention space” showed no meaningful effect on scientific output and was eliminated from the equation.

The present study, based on an ethnological approach in sociology, studies the mentalities of researchers in regards to the scientific community in Iran. The theoretical section of the paper presents the sociological views concerning social system and social action and institutionalist and ethnological standpoints about the scientific communities. This study used a qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews with 69 leading researchers, mainly in basic sciences, who had published large amounts of papers in refereed journals indexed in ISI. In the findings section of the paper, researchers’ mentalities are classified. These mentalities include categories of existence or not-existence of scientific communities in Iran, their characteristics and their definitions by researchers. In the concluding section, different viewpoints are compared with each other and the study results are reviewed against Merton’s ideas as a leading figure of institutionalist theorist of sociology.

The purpose of this research was to study the Quality of Work Life(QWL) among public university faculty members in Iran and providing strategies for its improvement. A descriptive and analytical survey method was used and a researcher made questionnaire to gather data. Population of this study was 21045 public university faculty members affiliated with Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and a total of 693 individuals were randomly selected.. Findings illustrate three areas of activities including teaching, research and scientific and administrative services. In addition analysis revealed that quality of work life among faculty members was not in a good condition. Faculty level of utilization in development and professional growth opportunities was assessed low to average. Amount of interaction, communication and collaborative activities among faculty members were considered average by most of the correspondents. According to the majority of respondents (53%), misbehaviors and lack of observing ethics in scientific and professional lives was below average. Among a set of potential factors, motivational, professional challenges and organizational culture were identified as factors influencing the faculty quality of work life.