فصلنامه مطالعات فرهنگی و ارتباطات
پیاپی 23 (تابستان 1390)

Narrative as an element of culture plays a key role in shaping some significant colonial attitudes. Moreover, the nature of the novel almost always opens up a space for interaction. The novel is a literary form that also has much affinity with Orientalism. It is the nature of the novel as a constituent of culture and as an imperial quest that yields an Oriental flavor. Researchers have applied postcolonial theories to a variety of novels due to this narrative nature. The main battle in imperialism is over land, of course, but it is usually fought in the novel when it came to who owned the land, who had the right to settle and work on the land, who kept it going, who won it back, and who now plans its future. This study attempts to define a relationship between the colonial and the narrative in the light of Edward Said’s analyses.

This study attempts to classify cultural forms of Iranian intellectuals’ perspectives and to define and explain changes among these forms. Its path is a documentary method with qualitative content analysis of the works of recent four decades. The conceptual framework is built on the threefold typology of intellectuals’ culture i.e. aboriginal-oriented, transcendental, and communicative culture. Findings show there are diverse cultural forms among Iranian intellectuals and the trend has a tendency towards communicative cultural form. This change can be explained in terms of the effects of social movements and new technologies of communications. By way of these agency and structural effects, now a new pattern of intellectuals’ culture is shaping that is based on dialogical, synthetic and interactive characteristics

Social relationships have always been in the spot of scholars, particularly, inter-generational relationships and objects create a new subject matter. The present article has adopted a generational approach and qualitative methods in examining inter-generational relationships and objects throughout everyday life and within public places. This article illustrates that inter-generational relationships and objects reveal plainly in public places due to the absence of local bonds, concepts of estrangement, instability, degeneration of primary bonds (ethnic or family relationships) and the impact of cultural and social bonds deriving from the family, religion and political systems and the empowerment of secondary bonds e.g. lifestyle, consumption patterns. Results have reflected that the three generations behave variably in South Terminal despite of some similarities in purchase patterns, application of objects and interaction in elsewhere.

As physical characteristics and appearance of people have found an increasing importance in their identity nowadays, in this research, we study the body with a structural approach considering it as a signifying system, to recognize the meanings and identities which convey or represent through it. The signifier of this signifying system is body and its apparent characteristics such as cloths, neatness and adornment, body gestures, speaking tone and accent, and its signification is the meanings and identities which represent trough body. Our theoretical approach is developed using Barthes's semiotics and Bourdieu's distinction theories. In the field study 41 Tehranian women studied which were chosen by purposive sampling method.The results show that studied women are more or less aware of the meanings and identities which are represented by their bodies but this awareness doesnt always conforming the meanings and identities which society assigns to the feminine body. Furthermore, although the social values and gender stereotypes which exist in the social sphere of Iran, play a significant role in the women's body representation, their enjoying of the social and cultural capital, provide them a critical approach to the gender stereotypes in so far as they could perform more freely and reflexively in their body management and body representations.

Style facilitates the solidarity and Coordination of youth consumption subculture be created by a bricolage path. This article is set to the study of relationship between consumption culture and bricolage identity among youth. The statistical sample is 397 youths in Isfahan. Survey method and questionnaire technique, and multivariable regression and Structural equation modeling are used for gathering and analyzing the data respectively. The results show that the rate of bricolage identity is 86 percent, and additionally, the average of consumerism culture is 3.16 per 5. Hypothesis testing represents meaningful relationship between religious trends, cosmetic use, truancy, fitness, cosmetic surgery, advertisements, fashion trends, age, education and bricolage identity; on the other hand there is no significant relation between self confidence and bricolage. Moreover the results show that in terms of beta values fashion trends, religious trends, education, fitness and age are correlated with bricolage. Likewise in order to test in general and in detail of theoretical model we use of structural equation modeling that high fit indices indicates the model is very good

The lifestyles of the youth particularly the university students have changed dramatically in recent years and some of these changes are not in consonance with the prevailing norms and values of the society. On the other hand, granted that cultural issues have gained more importance recently so mabsuch so that issues like cultural engineering are nowadays being debated, studying student's cultural inclinations and lifestyles and the variables that influence them become necessary. In this research, drawing on some postmodern concepts like Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital (1984) and Featherstone's concept of aestheticization of everyday life (1991), social factors that affect student's lifestyles in Isfahan universities are considered. A cluster sample of 361 native students from two large governmental universities is selected to fill out the questionnaires. The findings indicate that social class (=0.155), socializing with friends (=0.159), using the internet (=0.170), and using satellite television (=0.304) are significantly related to lifestyle. Altogether these variables could explain about 37 percent of the variance in lifestyle. Sex has no effects on lifestyle and social class is significantly related to using the internet and satellite television

Ethnic Plurality is among important features of Iranian identity. Before the (1979) Islamic Revolution, a solution to the problem of ethnic Plurality towards accomplishing an integrated national identity was sought by relying on identity policies originating from the imperative Reza Khan-style pseudo-modern process. However, in a cultural turn after the Islamic Revolution, identity policies were mainly focused on indigenous values. On this basis, various cultural policies have been adopted and implemented in line with construction of an integrated national identity. With regard to the importance of type of individuals’ cultural consumption in specifying their identity attachment, this paper evaluates the cultural policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran by using some data on musical consumption (as an example of cultural consumption) of various ethnic groups and their success or failure in constructing national identity. The data of this research belongs to survey of a plan conducted in 1388 (2009 – 2010) to examine and measure the country’s public cultural indexes. After examining the data it was concluded that with due regard to the meaningful tendency of various ethnic groups towards consumption of musical Genres belonging to the official culture, the cultural policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in constructing national identity have been successful and have created a sense of attachment to elements of national culture in various ethnic groups

This study investigates the relationship between national identity and Medias among high-school students of Ahwaz city. This research has been conducted in quantitative method (survey), by the means of questionnaire and Research population is high-school girl students of Ahwaz city. According to Lin table, in 95% confidence level and 4% error; Sample size estimated 600 people. Sampling has been done through the stratified- quota sampling method. In current study national identity has been surveyed in three dimensions consists of: common in-group fate, attraction to the in-group and perception of the intergroup context. According to the results of this survey, from the different kinds of Medias; national T.V, non-Arabic & non-Persian channels of satellite have significant correlation with national identity and all its three dimensions. The findings also show that from Medias, national TV, internal radio, non-Persian sites and non-Arabic & non-Persian channels of satellite confirm the most variance of the variable of national identity. Also, national T.V and internal radio have positive correlation and non-Persian sites and non-Arabic & non-Persian channels of sat have negative correlation with this variable.