پژوهشنامه علوم انسانی و اجتماعی
پیاپی 34 (نیمه اول 1388)

Iranian society typically is patriarchal that and this results in massive social, political & global changes. One of these changes is transformation in family values and behaviors. Decision making in houses is one of the critical areas in sociological studies. The relationship between globalization and household decision making remains to be looked into. The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between globalization and household decision making in Tehran, Shiraz and Estahbān. After reviewing local and international literature, in the context of theories related to household decision making, a synthesized theoretical framework using Gidden's theory about globalization was formulated. The research methodology was a survey one. The population under consideration was 1223 married women from the three cities selected systematically at random. The findings show that talking in family, respecting to female laws in family, sex-role attitudes and ICT's use on the whole could explain about 32 percent of household decision makings.

This paper examines the imposed war’s poem from the view point of the Sociology of Language. The imposed war’s poem is a new genre in Persian literature that has binary approach towards language; related to the date of poems and to the poets classification. Regarding the date of poems we have two groups: a) during the war, especially during the early years; b) in the last years and after the war. Referring to the poets classification, we have the poets who participated in the war and have only poems concerning the Holy Defense and the poets that poems about the war is a part of their poetry. The approach of the first group is based on propaganda, approval and ideal; while the second approach is critique and realistic.

Given the role of women at home, the present paper employed psychological and sociological theories to examine the relationship between fulfilling the expectations of married women from their husbands and marital satisfaction. It employed survey with questionnaire. The sample size was 226 married women from three districts in Tehran. The findings showed significant relationship between the independent variables and marital satisfaction.Among expectations substantiation, the sexuality dimension (70.3 percent) is maximum and the cooperation dimension (8.6 percent) is minimum. The majority of women (52.6 percent) have expressed high marital satisfaction. The determination coefficient for the independent variables was 0.532; it means that 53.2 percent of variation in the dependent variable is related to the spotted independent variables.

Iran is a country with a multicultural ethnic population. Following Castles, in a global age of emerging “resistance identities” intensified by social movements, that’s a significant phenomenon for national Identity formation and nation- states building question in Iran. However, a critical analysis of the national Identity discourse articulated by the Iranian intellectuals during the past century shows many contradictions. These contradictions will be clear just when they try to depict ethnic policies in Iran. The mentioned contradictions can activate ethnic gaps and conflicts, promote political consciousness of ethnic groups, and lead to a dangerous situation in near future. This paper, by a critical discourse analysis method, tries to deal with these contradictions during the past century and their potentials for activating ethnic conflicts. Finally, the paper tries to propose some necessary points to achieve a more sustainable and comprehensive ethnic policy in Iran.

Rapid urban growth is one of the developing countries characteristics. Economic change, rural – urban migration, labor force transfer from agriculture sector to industries and service sectors are the main cause of rapid urban zones and city size in the south countries. Many models and techniques have been developed to measure the relation between city size and their rank. This paper analyzes the evolution of city size distribution in Iran.Data of Cities with over 100.000 dweller in Iran, from the Iran Census data for 1950–2006, were used to appraisal the validity of Zipf’s Law, Lorenz Curve and spatial Autocorrelation Coefficient. The analysis elucidate the evolving nature of urban clusters that can help us better understand urban phenomena, and make inferences on how socioeconomic processes influence city size especially in large cities.

This study, investigate the socio-economic factors on the universalistic value orientation of Yasouj residents. The main aim of this study is the cognition of the degree of universalistic orientation in the mentioned society, and the effective factors on this orientation. This study has been done via survey method and questionaire technique. The statistical society is the 15 years and older peoples in Yasouj, and, the sample size determined, based on the Lin sampling formula, 400 cases. Finally, 385 questionaires were used in analysis. The data were analyzed via SPSS software. The analysis, showed that there are significant relationship between universalistic orientation (dependent variable) and education level, father education, mother education, welfare accessories, socio-economic status (independent variable), there is negative relationship between age and universalistic orientation. Just using the internet, among the mass media, has negative relationship with universalistic orientation. The other independent variables(such as social trust, ethnicity, geneder, job situation, and income) have not significant relationship with universalistic orientation.