فصلنامه راهبرد اجتماعی فرهنگی
پیاپی 38 (بهار 1400)

Migration is currently one of the top ten issues in the world and its management has taken a considerable importance. Since Iran as a country of emigrants’ origin is facing an outflow of human and economic capital, it is important to recognize and analyze the attitude of the institutional environment towards migration management. According to the neo-institutionalist approach, the governmental higher order documents, as an institutional environment governing migration management, determine other countries’ approaches towards the way they take advantage of the opportunities and ensure greater coordination at the level of executive institutions. This paper aims to interpret and analyze the institutional environment of migration management through thematic analysis method. According to the thematic model of the governmental higher-order documents relevant to the issue, migration management is based on the following four criteria: paying enough attention to human dignity and high  humane values, strengthening the social consensus and convergence, participating in  and being attracted by the national development,  and preventing the emigration of the elite. Three different approaches, namely support-oriented, opportunity-oriented, and threat-oriented ones, with the dominance of the second one, have been deduced from the content of the relevant governmental higher-order documents.The orientation of policies on regulating the migration flow of the skilled labor is mainly based on the participatory policy approach rather than the policy of  retention and return. As the obtained results show, it is necessary to introduce a national migration management discourse in all policies and executive programs within the framework of a national strategic migration management document.

This study aims at designing a culture-creating model through Grounded Theory Approach (GTA) for the optimal consumption of drinking water in Semnan the province. The statistical population of the study included 21 experts of the Urban and Rural Water and Wastewater Industry (URWWI)in this province. Because of the constructive nature of the research, the GTA was followed and snowball sampling technique was adopted for drawing the sample. The main data collection tool used in this research was in-depth interviews with the experts of the URWWI in this province. Findings of the research, after completing the three steps of the open, axialو and selective coding process showed that the paradigm model of the study consisted of 172 final codes, 18 main concepts, and 6 general categories. The results showed that social and individual factors, governmental bureaux and organizations ,senior managers, legal factors, and technical-engineering factors as causal factors; individual underlying factors and social issues as underlying factors; managers’ mindsets and support, performance of those in charge , the will of the society as intermediary conditions; proper performance, continuous training at various levels, advertising and media information as strategy; individual consequences, short-term results, long-term results, national and regional results as implications lead to the emergence of a pattern of culture-creating in the optimal use of water resources of the country.

Governments have recognized cyberspace, after the three domains of  their national territories,  as the fourth realm of their national sovereignty but some elements of nation-states including borders have not yet emerged in cyberspace. This study aims at examining the feasibility of generalizing the border phenomenon from real space to cyberspace and the necessity of this generalization, and providing a clear definition of cyber border. Then, the requirements for the realization of borders in cyberspace, including the methods of demarcation in this space and the feasibility of technical realization of cyber borders, are examined. In terms of its purpose, this study is an exploratory-descriptive research with qualitative data collected through library method and analyzed qualitatively. Findings show that not only is the existence of borders in cyberspace possible, but also due to the types of hard and soft threats in cyberspace, their necessity is double that of the real space. As a result of the remarkable developments of the cyberspace era, the real meaning and main functions of border have not changed while merely some methods of border demarcation and border guarding in information and communication technology have undergone some considerable changes. Accordingly, the borders of cyberspace like those of the real space have established the boundaries of the sovereignty of nation-states in digital space and, in accordance with certain rules, prevent the hard and soft threats of cyberspace.

In today's world, the international nature of science is one of the universal principles of scientific development. In clearer terms, the knowledge acquired in a country is recognized as science when it can be presented and accepted in the global and international sphere. The efforts of the scientific and research institutes to achieve a top international position and to be present in the global networks of science and technology can be clearly explained in this process. This paper mainly aims at examining the process of internationalization of research institutes in Iran and its main purpose is to explain how to promote the position of Iranian research institutes in the international arena. Now, the main question is: what is the future prospect of internationalization of research institutes in Iran? This question has been answered through using the theoretical framework of structure-agent analysis, the theory of globalization, case study, and Manuel Castells’ world of networks. The research methods used in this article are: documentary studies and process research in a way that in addition to examining the documents and output of policy-making institutions, the experiences of five selected research institutes in the fields of humanities, engineering, and basic sciences through using case study method have been analyzed. The main achievement of this study is that the internationalization of research institutes requires the realization of the relevant indicators at three levels; namely, macro (policy maker), intermediate (research institute), and micro (institute members). In this process, creating a suitable ecosystem and planning at macro level are of the first priority. Within this ecosystem, on the basis of the structure-agent model, the role of the surrounding structures as well as determining the activities of research institutes along with the role of the will of the actors within the research institutes should be considered.

This study aims to examine the strategies of the supreme council of cyberspace for modern communication media policymaking. It is mainly aimed at identifying the most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of this council on the area of modern media policymaking and developing some  scientific and operational strategies in this area. In this regard, the normative theories of media, use and satisfaction, new media, identity and cyberspace, and media policy-making have been used. In this research, the policies of this council have been examined through the quantitative-qualitative method of SWOT analytical matrix and purposeful interviews with 14 academic experts and pundits in the field of media and policy-making. In total, 15 strengths and opportunities have been identified as the advantages of this council and 16 weaknesses and threats as its limitations. A score of 3.15 of the Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix and a score of 2.51 of the External Factors Evaluation (EFE) Matrix show that the strengths of the supreme council of cyberspace in policymaking of the modern communication media outweigh its weaknesses and the opportunities facing this council also outweigh its threats; accordingly, offensive strategies have been suggested

Recently, Iranian temperament has been considered by sociologists as one of the obstacles to development. The main purpose of this study was to identify the basic dimensions of Iranian temperament in the university context. Using a survey study and through available sampling method, 833 students and 266 university teachers from Allameh Tabatabai and Kurdistan Universities were studied. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data, the content validity of which was confirmed by experts in sociology and higher education and its reliability based on Cronbach's alpha at the level of 0.9. Data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis using principal components method. The results showed that the moods of Iranian students include; The six basic factors of stereotypical behavior and resorting to deception in scientific matters were multifaceted personality and jealousy, authoritarianism and uncriticism in interpersonal relationships, prejudice, bias and prejudice in scientific activities, the spirit of exploitation, narcissism and inclination to work. Also the temperaments of the educators include; The six factors of self-interest and violation of the rights of others in doing scientific affairs were the spirit of exploitation and multifaceted personality, authoritarianism and expectation, bias, prejudice and compliments in scientific activities, the spirit of inquiry and scientific persistence, narcissism and desire for personal work. . Overall, the results showed that the temperament of teachers and students is a manifestation of the general temperament of Iranian society.

This study, through mixed exploratory method, seeks to explain the model of social responsibility of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting(IRIB) in order to strengthen the convergence of ethnic groups in Sistan and Baluchestan(S&B) province. The data collection tool was semi-structured in-depth  interviews with 15 experts aware of the research topic including academic experts, managers of the  IRIB, and the leaders of the ethnic groups of the province who were all selected through theoretical sampling and targeted and Snowball techniques. The initial model was obtained in the form of data-based theory through content analysis method used in analyzing the collected data. Then the model was modified and approved by the experts through Delphi method. Confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis using SPSS and PLS software were used on the information obtained from the questionnaires distributed among 242 heads of the ethnic groups and tribes in S&B province to test the model,The findings of the study are: 121 key concepts, 34 categories, and 13 main categories which were compiled in the form of the central category (social responsibility of the IRIB in strengthening the convergence of ethnic groups in S&B province), causal conditions (observance of citizenship rights, a tendency to the truth, responsibility and professionalism), underlying conditions (internal and external media environment), intervening conditions (environmental challenges and organizational constraints), strategies (ethnic strategies and organizational strategies), and implications (strengthening the convergence of the ethnic groups in S&B province and promoting IRIB accountability) in the conceptual grounded theories model.