فصلنامه مطالعات فرهنگ - ارتباطات
پیاپی 1 (بهار 1387)

Globalization is a concept that has voracious tendency to extend in various aspects, and numerous organs, especially technologies, are used at this course. A worth thinking issue is that today, globalization phenomenon has surrounded anyone in anywhere. Cultural, technological, economics and political development in 21st century is not limited to a group, nation and government, but everyone are affected by and connected to it. Such evolution has also affected the area of culture of the countries. Cultural space definition would be changed in affected by globalization which means development of universal culture that has led to reform new outputs in cultural, social, economics and political areas. The form and sort of affecting by globalization process depends on countries universal position and richness of their native and religious culture. There is difference between performance of those countries with and without cultural richness and old civilization history or have been suffered or transmigrated by passing history evolutions. This article tries to investigate if globalization, which affected everyone, has influenced Islamic Iran in the area of culture? And basically for our country, what are the most reasonable attitude and strategy to deal with this phenomenon? And this dealing will set what opportunities and what threats against Islamic Iran.

Although human physical figure has numerous social-cultural indications, pioneers of sociologists have not considered its study so much. This paper is prepared for signalizing the importance of studying body, sociologically. So, writer has tried to achieve following aims in a frame of theoretical analysis: - Introducing sociology of body; Investigating the reasons that pioneers of sociologists neglect to study body; - Investigating growth areas of studying body sociologically, in recent years; - Investigating social-cultural indications of body. Mentioned viewpoints indicate this fact that sociological necessities of body are insomuch that we can not account it as a just physical and biological nature. Sociological study of body, not only nurturing our sight to convergence of society and individual, but contributing inner growth of sociology by nurturing convergence of sociology and some other scientific courses

This article explains tourism influence on convergence and cultural development in an analytic-descriptive way. Various factors of tourism stagnation among Islamic countries can be divided into inner and outer factors. Considering background of tourism industry, especially pilgrimage one in Islam world, different forms of tourism, such as recreational, commercial, religious, pilgrimage and athletic, influence on the process of cultural convergence of Islamic countries. This investigation results that tourism industry is an effective factor in local, regional and international level. Considering technological development in third millennium, cultural development can be achieved through reasonable planning and managing tourism. Tourism industry influences on scientific transactions, growth of social-economics productions, Islamic society union, and evolution of conventions and values. To enforce and stabilize peace, friendship and cultural development among Islamic countries, some effectual tourism development strategies are: governments’ cooperation in establishing and developing security; developing bases; conferring tourism reasonable services; setting tourism rules; informing and using information technology for advertising and marketing; educating manpower and researching into tourism.

This research investigates the link between youths’ social rank and their religiosity. Therefore, after reviewing sociologists’ viewpoints, there is mentioned the conclusions of studies and theories into the link between social rank and religiosity. Then religiosity and its aspects are investigated through factorial analysis of data. In the analysis of data, descriptive and definitive results of data are mentioned. In descriptive part, youngsters’ religious tendency and awareness were high enough. So the link between their religiosity and social rank were evaluated positive. However, the stand of youths’ religiosity (according to the conclusion of other researcher) among three social ranks indicates that the religiosity of youngsters of low and middle social rank is stronger than those of high social rank. As a result, at this research Veblen’s theory, that suggests the religiosity of middle rank is lower than others, is not confirmed

This article investigates relative influence of new technologies of communication and information in general, and internet specifically, on development of society. To recognize internet influences on development, especially social development, first it is required to obtain the reasonable recognition of internet and its capabilities. This paper is an effort to investigate and discuss the influences of internetas one of the effective technologies in development of society- on some indexes such as earnings and poverty, education, health, and access to equal opportunities.

In contemporary world and after renewal of life of the Islamic thought, which is one of the accomplishments of blessed Islamic revolution in Iran, considering Mahdaviat as the essence of Quran great prophet’s relatives(etrat) and top of honorable prophets’ vocation is increasing remarkably. This process has heightened the regards to the evidences of appearance (zohur) in contemporary society. Research in verses and narratives related to the evidences of appearance and the end-time period, and effort to extract shiite’s basic strategies in the periods of absence and nigh to the appearance, establish a new attitude in Mahdaviat and the end-time studies that can be called “Efficient Attitude to Mahdaviat”. Requirements of the appearance and the end-time period can be imaged by investigating these narratives and evidences; it shows that the evidences won’t be emerged in a low level and in the form of sectional rebellion, or regional revolution or changing a political government. The range of this emergence is universal and it is deep enough to influence all angles of human life. And this means nothing just a downfall and transfer of civilization, and then, constitution of a godlike universal civilization. This attitude, alongside of efficient one, can be called “Civilized Attitude to Mahdaviat”. In developing this concept and investigating historic literatures of civilization, the point is that each one has selected an idea as a pivotal concept of analyzing history and tried to analyze human civilizations history accordingly. On this course and in a Mahdavi attitude, it is a feasible effort to explain the idea of “right and lapsed contrast” as a pivotal concept in a well different observation to history and civilization.