فصلنامه جامعه پژوهی فرهنگی
سال پنجم شماره 2 (تابستان 1393)

Today، due to the expansion of the Internet in higher education and universities، an important part of the students'' everyday life is linked to the Internet. This study is based on the assumption that students in the process of their academic lives keep shaping and strengthening their dimensions of identity. The adopted research methodology is ethnography. In this research، 21 university students of Ramsar Payame Noor University and 36 students of Ramsar Islamic Azad University، both male and female، were interviewed. The results of this study indicate that the Internet has a significant presence in the students'' everyday life and plays a substantial role in all aspects of their identity، i. e.، Student Identity، Generational Identity and Citizenship Identity. However، the role of the Internet in the students'' everyday life was more considerable in case of Generational Identity، i. e.، Entertainment and Leisure Time.

The purpose of this research is to compare the demographic, cultural and religious variables between those couples who have applied for divorce and the rest of the population in the city of Tehran. Statistical population includes all couples who had referred to family court and filed a divorce petition, and ordinary couples. The sample was 156 applicants and 164 ordinary couples; among which 132 couples from each group were included in the study. Two kinds of questionnaires, one for demographic data and the other for religious beliefs were used. After the questionnaires were completed, the data were analyzed through SPSS software with Q-square and Cochran tests. The results indicated that high cultural and religious differences, age of marriage before 25 years for men and before 20 for women, less than 6 months pre-marriage acquaintance, and high education differences between couples, were significantly associated with more probability of applying for divorce.

Post phenomenology tries to put man, world, and technology in a closed relationship with each other and specifies the relation made by technology between man and his world. Camera as a technology tool and cultural media, with regard to the context it is located in, creates special socio-cultural concepts. In this paper, attempts have been made to investigate the technological role of photography in the Iranian culture and society. The author attempts to find the relation that photography has created between man and his world in Iran, which has ultimately resulted in a decisive cultural turn. The author also attempts to present an analysis, based on Foucault`s archeological ideology, to identify the epistemological roots of this cultural turn. The results reveal that photography has led to a new ideology based on mundane phenomena and interrelations, and has also made Iran subject to modern cultural changes.

This study aims to determine the effects of hidden curriculum components on social dimension of Islamic-Iranian identity of secondary school girl students of Tehran. The research methodology is a combination of documents analysis, ethnography, and qualitative content analysis. Accordingly, five schools and 30 students were selected purposively (through chain sampling). Data was collected through instruments like Interviews (semi-structured), participatory observations, and note-taking from documents. The data was analyzed through open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The findings showed that the hidden curriculum components have both positive and negative effects on social dimension of Islamic-Iranian identity of secondary school girl students in three cognitive, emotional, and behavioral levels. Such results have been explicated in tables.

Science historians often refer to two main theories about the status of science in Islamic culture. Some believe that science has been a marginal issue in Islam, has not had an outstanding position in the Islamic education system, and has been brushed aside. The advocates of this theory subscribe to Marginal Thesis. According to this thesis, the great scientific achievements and undeniable accomplishments of the Muslim philosophers resulted from private communities that were not under the pressure and coercion of righteous believers and traditionalists. Nonetheless, another community believes that science has had an elevated status in the Islamic culture, and the terms “science” and “knowledge” have had no such elevated status in any other civilizations except that of Islam. In other words, “science” is a key term in this civilization. The advocates of this theory subscribe to Appropriation Thesis. According to this thesis, although in the Islamic world logical sciences did not dominate over traditional/narrated sciences, yet they were in close affinity with them. The present paper, through using valid documents, aims at studying these two theses.

This paper seeks to examine the cultural consumption of classes and various groups of students in Mazandaran University. In the theoretical part, the view of Pierre Bourdieu has been employed. The research was conducted using survey method, questionnaire, and cluster sampling among 400 students of the University. Results indicate that despite the approval of class distinctions and differences between groups in some aspects of cultural consumption, low correlation coefficients and insignificant differences in other dimensions make class theory in Iran, or at least in Iranian academic community, ineffective. In fact, in the conducted research and among these university students, Bourdieu's theory of classification of cultural consumption failed to provide an appropriate explanation.