Tahereh Jafari; Maryam Kouhestani
Volume 17, Issue 40 , September 2018, , Pages 199-218
Abstract
The proposal ceremony is an introduction to wedding ceremony and starting a family. In the past, the proposal ceremony was held in a traditional way. Over the time, with the communities becoming more sophisticated, the traditional proposal has taken a modern form. The study ...
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The proposal ceremony is an introduction to wedding ceremony and starting a family. In the past, the proposal ceremony was held in a traditional way. Over the time, with the communities becoming more sophisticated, the traditional proposal has taken a modern form. The study is to find out the attitude of the young girls toward the two kinds of proposal ceremony: traditional and modern. For this purpose, 150 subjects were selected randomly from the Refah University students. The study has been performed by a descriptive-explanatory method. An author-made questionnaire was used to collect the data. Descriptive and inferential statistics, including Chi-Square tests and Pearson correlation coefficient, were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the girls are willing to be proposed for in the modern way.
Tahereh Jafari; zahra taleb lo
Volume 16, Issue 38 , March 2018, , Pages 125-148
Abstract
"Virtual Social Networks" are one of the many services currently provided in the world of information technology. Social networks are one of the most significant culture creation tools in the contemporary world and have an important role in shaping of beliefs, attitudes, motivations and behaviours. ...
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"Virtual Social Networks" are one of the many services currently provided in the world of information technology. Social networks are one of the most significant culture creation tools in the contemporary world and have an important role in shaping of beliefs, attitudes, motivations and behaviours. These networks aid the users in maintenance of social relationships and finding new friends, and bring about the groundworks for membership, activity, and targeted participation. Secret language is a type of social language which has a record with particular characteristics. Secret language is made up of a set of words which do not have a background in social class, race, religion, etc. and their advent is heavily influenced by the social media.
The research presented here has been conducted with the aim of assessing the place of virtual social networks in promoting secret language in the Refah University students. The population comprised of Refah University students, 16 of whom were interviewed by the researcher. The main questions of the study including: how and how often students utilise social networks, and the prevalence of secret language within the female social network users, were addressed by conducting in-depth interviews with these students. The primary findings suggest the most significant lingual changes have occurred on the word level (e.g. shortening, removal, etc.). Other results include: usage of social network, types of interaction between the users in social networks, the user’s feeling towards new words, visual language, style of writing, the locations where social networks are accessed, application of words, and methods of creating words.