Morteza Rajabinejhad; Seyed Alireza Afshani; Ali Ruhani
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Values play a fundamental role not only in guiding behaviors and shaping attitudes but also in forming the basis of individual and social choices. The primary objective of this study was to validate a value-measurement instrument and to conduct its field implementation among young adults aged 18 to 35 ...
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Values play a fundamental role not only in guiding behaviors and shaping attitudes but also in forming the basis of individual and social choices. The primary objective of this study was to validate a value-measurement instrument and to conduct its field implementation among young adults aged 18 to 35 in the city of Yazd, Iran. The research followed a quantitative approach using a survey-based design. The target population consisted of young residents of Yazd within the specified age range, and a sample size of 472 participants was calculated using Cochran’s formula. Data were collected through a researcher-developed questionnaire comprising two main sections: multiple dimensions of values and demographic/background items. After assessing the instrument’s validity and reliability (including CVR-CVI, confirmatory factor analysis, and Cronbach’s alpha), the survey data were collected and analyzed using SPSS and AMOS. The findings indicated that the developed instrument demonstrates satisfactory validity and reliability, and that the extracted value dimensions appropriately reflect core characteristics of the value structures prevalent among the youth of Yazd. Further analyses showed no significant differences in respondents’ values by gender or marital status. Education level was found to be significantly associated with variations in values, while no significant relationship was observed between income levels and values.
Saeideh Sadeghzadeh; Ali Ruhani; Seyed Alireza Afshani
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This study aims to understand the role of media in shaping and intensifying the generational gap among youth in the city of Yazd. The research was conducted using a qualitative approach based on the grounded theory method. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 single young people ...
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This study aims to understand the role of media in shaping and intensifying the generational gap among youth in the city of Yazd. The research was conducted using a qualitative approach based on the grounded theory method. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 single young people aged 18 to 35 who were living with their families. Data analysis was carried out in three stages:open,axial, and selective coding.The analysis resulted in the extraction of 182 concepts,27 subcategories, 9 main categories, and one core category.The core category of the study, “Two Media Worlds in One Home,” reflects the simultaneous presence of two different systems of meaning within the family environment.The findings indicate that new media, by creating differences in patterns of media consumption, attitudes, and communication styles between parents and children in Yazd, provide the context for the emergence of generational tensions within the family. In this regard, young people’s distrust of official media, their stronger inclination toward new media, and differences in the interpretation and evaluation of media messages have led to communicative tensions and emotional distance between the two generations. Moreover, parental control and restrictions on media use are often met with resistance from children, further deepening this divide.Overall, the findings suggest that media are not merely tools for information transmission but also arenas for redefining identity,values, and intergenerational relationships within the family.As such, they can contribute to the intensification or reproduction of the generational gap in the context of everyday life between parents and children in Yazd.
Ali Ruhani; Soheila Haji Heidari
Volume 18, Issue 46 , March 2020, , Pages 247-266
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The entry of network sales to Iran back in 1379 (Hijri Shamsi), which was declared illegitimate in 1384, causing many problems in the country. Subsequently, in spite of the many hardships, a number of representatives of the Ministry of Intelligence, the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, the Ministry ...
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The entry of network sales to Iran back in 1379 (Hijri Shamsi), which was declared illegitimate in 1384, causing many problems in the country. Subsequently, in spite of the many hardships, a number of representatives of the Ministry of Intelligence, the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, the Ministry of Defense, and the Prosecutor General's Office were formed as a monitoring committee for network marketing activities over the course of several years, and its secretariat at the Department of Affairs Tradesmen and merchants of the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade. Eventually, on 6/6/1390, the first license was given to one of the network marketing companies, and since that time, we continue to see the growth of such companies. In this paper, we have tried to use the qualitative approach and the benefit of the critical ethnographic approach in the framework of the five-dimensional business approach, the experience of individuals from the presence of network marketing companies and the process that they understand and experience and, ultimately, the results that they are concerned with. To be Hence, a one-year obscure collaborative observation was conducted in four of the network marketing companies. During this process, interviews were conducted by interviewing and identifying people who refused to respond to profound interviews with 16 people who had a long history of withdrawal from network marketing companies. Findings In the form of concepts and categories such as unbalanced profit and cost, the elimination of two systems of system, extra ambiguity, the creation of distance with society, debris of desires, erosion concerns, erosion of hope and wish, affective vulnerability of members, caricature of network marketing, and ... extracted and explained.
Ali Ruhani; Abbass Askari Nadoushan; Saeid Keshavarzi
Volume 18, Issue 44 , September 2019, , Pages 237-256
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Although wishes have been considered as one of the most indispensable concepts with many social consequences, but little attention has been given by sociologists to them. Furthermore, psychologists also have reduced this concept to the just some psychological features. In this study, with highlighting ...
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Although wishes have been considered as one of the most indispensable concepts with many social consequences, but little attention has been given by sociologists to them. Furthermore, psychologists also have reduced this concept to the just some psychological features. In this study, with highlighting some special characteristics of wishes, we attempted to shed a light on their roles and influences on the social orientation of society. To do so, an extensive research has been done in order to identify and assess the Youth social wishes. In this vein, a first exploratory and interview-based study resulted in 18 identified categories of wishes. Then, we assessed the importance level of wishes and the impacts of structural-demographic variables (including gender, age and field of study) on them through a multi-stage cluster sampling survey among 2712 adolescents in Yazd city. According to the results, family-based and political wishes have been chosen as the most and the least important categories of wishes respectively. Furthermore, results showed that the importance of wishes for girls has been more than boys and in general, the importance of wishes decreased as they grew up. In addition, there has been significant relation between their field of study and some category of wishes. Finally, with discussing on the probable social consequent of wishes, the fields requiring planning and policy were introduced.
Ali Rouhani; Somayyeh Hashemi; Masoud Anbarloo
Volume 17, Issue 40 , September 2018, , Pages 241-264
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In today’s world, the speed of changes has been increased as many sociologists believe that the main feature of the new world is its rapid and unpredictable changes. These rapid changes have occurred not only in the modern technologies but also in the social and cultural fields. With development ...
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In today’s world, the speed of changes has been increased as many sociologists believe that the main feature of the new world is its rapid and unpredictable changes. These rapid changes have occurred not only in the modern technologies but also in the social and cultural fields. With development of information and communication technologies, many behavioral and social fields of people have been changed too. In this regard, many values, norms, habits, manners, life styles and characteristics of people have been changed accordingly. Therefore, the study is an attempt to analyze the relationship between foreign visual media and value system of Shiraz’s youth and teenagers. For this purpose, 400 young people of Shiraz—youth and teenagers—were selected based on multi-stage cluster sampling and were asked to answer the questions of a researcher-made questionnaire. The dependent variable of the research included different clusters and a range of values including eight clusters of native, national, global, religious, economic, scientific, social/cultural and familial values. Foreign visual media were also studied extensively. The findings of the study show that there is a meaningful relationship between foreign visual media and all eight value clusters (native, national, global, religious, economic, scientific, social/cultural and familial). Finally, the proposals of study have been presented at the end of article.
Mohammad Taghi Iman; Ali Rohani
Volume 12, Issue 19 , April 2013, , Pages 29-48
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Today in modern societies, differentiation process and diagnosis of lifestyles vetween individuals and groups nor by their heredity bases of social, economic,political rather than achoice based on the consumption of materal and spirial and spiritual goods will be. Among the context of social inequalily. ...
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Today in modern societies, differentiation process and diagnosis of lifestyles vetween individuals and groups nor by their heredity bases of social, economic,political rather than achoice based on the consumption of materal and spirial and spiritual goods will be. Among the context of social inequalily. People have different tesources; different ways of lifestyle and consequently their lesisure patterns would be formed. Ownership of social capital in the similar way forms their lifestyle and leisure. The present study attempted to empirically examine the theoretical point (Pierre Boutdieu’s analysis plan). For this tcason the “shiraz university” as a scientific.social field were selected and 430students by systematic random sampling were examined. The results showed that the zmount of social capital xvailable to students in both formal and informal social capital kind are medium and low; however, informal social capital with individyalistic leisure patterns and colleetivist leisurepatterns both is correlated. The results were discussed and practical solutions were proposed.
