فصلنامه علوم اجتماعی
سال بیست و هشتم شماره 3 (پیاپی 94، پاییز 1400)

Even though it can be argued that inequality, distance, and social exclusion have always existed across societies, one can not ignore reflecting on the reason why and how it is created together with its consequences for today’s various groups and social systems. The aim of this study is to explain the relationship between religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion by considering the mediating variable of social distance between two groups of Shiite and Sunni students. The statistical sample includes 279 graduate students of the faculties of social sciences in the three universities of Allameh Tabataba’i, Tehran and Beheshti, in which Sunni and Shiite students were chosen through snowball method and random selection, respectively. The findings indicate that the mean values of feelings of social exclusion, social distance and religious identity among Sunni students are higher than Shiite ones. Also, there is a direct relationship between the level of religious identity and the feeling of social exclusion, and the same is true for social distance and the feeling of social exclusion. Multivariate regression analysis reveals that the variables included in the equation have been able to explain a significant part of the variance of the changes related to the dependent variable. The results of path analysis also demonstrate that the variables of religious identity, ethnicity and social distance are related to the feeling of social exclusion.

In theories of ethnic identity, belonging to an ethnicity varies with respect to ethnic policies, economic conditions, the extent of social system closure, etc., which may lose its role and importance in one period and become the dominant identity in another. The goal of this article is to evaluate the of ethnic identity in the city of Ahvaz from the second Pahlavi era to the Islamic Republic period. The research data were obtained based on the life history technique and through semi-structured qualitative interviews to identify and understand the mentality of people whose lived experience was formed in Ahvaz. To analyze the interviews, the matic content analysis method was used, through which ten primary themes and three central themes were identified. The central themes in the second Pahlavi period is "Ethnic Identity in the Path of Integration", in the period of the revolution until the end of the war is "Ethnic Identity in the path of Differentiation". The results show that compared to the past periods, the Bakhtiari and Arab people in Ahvaz have a greater tendency to identification based on ethnicity, and ethnic identity has become a strong and effective identity in the urban society of Ahvaz.

This article deals with reviewing theories developed from the middle of the last century about countries with abundant natural resources. In this regard, related theories in development literature as well as discourses and theories of Rentier State, Dutch disease, resource curse and also institutionalist theories that tried to evaluate the political, economic, cultural and social structures of these countries have been analysed. Furthermore, their changes to date were also explored.  While referring to the main claims of these theories as well as the internal and external criticisms, the current article tries to highlight their theoretical and empirical gaps. An attempt was also made to allow criticizing and reformulating these theories and discourses by emphasizing on their strength and weaknesses points. This can pave the way for future empirical studies while also providing a critical review of available theories. On this basis, the problems neglecting the historical roots of the formation of the state and economy in many of these research currents, special feature of addressing the issue of politics and state in other currents, and the analysis of the social systems of these countries based on standard patterns in most related discourses, have been emphasized in the narrative presented in this article.

One of the common approaches for explaining how a revolution is constructed is to analyze the ideology of revolutionaries. Ideology legitimizes the conflict and facilitates the mobilization of forces by providing an answer to the question ‘What should be done’ and developing a semantic system for the revolutionaries. But some thinkers such as David Snow believe that such semantic systems can’t be reduced to ideology and besides that, the attention must be paid on the frames that conduct the action of protesters. Frames are semantic systems that conduct the choice and position of revolutionaries in an unwritten and even unconscious way and as a mediating factor, they materialize revolutionary ideas and facilitate political mobilization of forces. This article deals with the memories of student movement activists during Pahlavi II in the Oral History Project of Harvard University to examine the process of politicization of student activists by analyzing the dominant frame of their action and choice. The findings show that Tayefe-Keshi is the frame that plays an important role in this process which has the function of developing boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and reproducing the political conflict and competition in the university.

The existence of numerous economic and livelihood problems due to reasons such as: lack of industrial infrastructure, uneven development, inefficient economic policies and lack of fertile land have caused many residents of the villages of border areas of Kurdistan to turn to special border trade in the form of Kolberi. This has resulted in various negative cultural consequences. One of the cultural fields that have been greatly affected by border relations is education. Therefore, the main goal of the article is to analyze the meaning and the point of view and experience of the people of the border villages of Baneh and Marivan regarding border relations and its consequences in the academic life of the students of that region. According to the objectives, a mixed method has been chosen. The findings have been collected by questionnaire technique, in-depth individual and group interviews, as well as observation. In the quantitative section, 380 students were selected by random sampling. In the qualitative section, according to the type of subject, individual and group interviews were conducted with 38 people. The findings show that the mechanism of cross-border relations on youth education can be analyzed with such things as: transformation of the field and habits - smuggling as a cultural act - rupture of educational identity - encirclement of the mentality of dropping out of school - value transformation of confirmation - academic failure. The results in the quantitative part indicate that border relations (formal-informal) have a negative effect on all three dimensions of academic enthusiasm (behavioral, emotional and cognitive). This means that the more students are involved in economic issues, the less motivation and enthusiasm they have for learning and active participation in school and class, and they will be indifferent to doing their assigned homework.

Although tradition religious association in traditional Iranian society had specific and well-established religious and social functions, with the extensive changes in Iranian society and its increasing modernization, the relationship of these tradition religious association with the characteristics of the new society has been "Problematic". This means that although on the one hand, all tradition religious association, as "Intermediary Institutions" that provide an opportunity for people to interact and collaborate, play an effective role in strengthening the characteristics of civil society, but on the other hand, not all of them act in the same way. In this study, the three "Ideal Types" of the tradition religious association, reflexivity, Identity-oriented and Movement-oriented, were separated and their relationship with some components of civil society was examined. The type of reflexivity moves towards strengthening civil society by striving for "Civic Education" of members of society and spreading civic messages. By focusing on strengthening the "Shiite Identity", the Identity-oriented type moves more towards the creation of "Traditionalist Societies", and Movement-oriented type, focusing on strengthening the "Jihadi organization", pursues the ideal of "Wilaii society".