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Volume 1, Issue 2 (4-2021)
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The notion of the characteristics of an ignoble human being in Gabriel Marcel's thought revolves around components such as establishing an "I - s/he" relationship with others, unpreparedness and unopenness in relations with others, and presence in the realm of "having." To that end, it will become clear that by establishing an "I-you" relationship, being present to other human beings in the realm of "being" becomes noble, but by examining Marcel's ideas it became clear that the dominance of science and technology over human beings paved the way for the formation of a mass society and further, it intensifies the functional view of human, and as a result all these factors, increases the intensity and speed of ignobility of contemporary mankind. In this study, which aimed to explain the factors of nobelity and ignobility from Gabriel Marcel's point of view, it became clear that he believes to emerge from unoriginality. a human being should be able to freely choose, to accept responsibility, to communicate with the secret and to have characteristics such as love, loyalty, faith and hope.

Volume 4, Issue 1 (10-2012)
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The institution of family has faced important evolutions in recent decades. Transition from traditional society to modern one has caused changes in cultural and social imaginaries and structures. Recent evolutions have affected family law as well as therights of women, men and children. This article, focusing on the Bill on Family Protection, tries to study family's evolution from the sociological and legal points of views. The first section (sociological view) considers the changes as to the role and place of women, men and children in the contemporary Iranian family. In the second section (legal view), advantages and disadvantages of the Bill are reviewed with respect to the sociological evolutions. Finally, based on legal and sociological findings, we examine the conformity of the Bill on Family Protection with current family evolutions and the possibility of solving family issues and problems

Volume 5, Issue 1 (9-2013)
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This research has been done to determine and explain graffiti of historical sites and its influencing factors. Direct observation is selected as the method and content analysis as the technique among 23 monuments of the city of Yazd and stratified sampling is used (systematic) concerning frequency of shapes and Images and carved terms. Research findings are based on 2204 entries such as words, shapes and images and categorizations: date (time), writing graffiti, age, city of residence, ethnicity, gender, genus or materials and tools used, poem and lines, carved first and family names, and the English letters. One of the most important factors that influences graffiti phenomenon is the lack of attention and neglecting toward these monuments. The preservation of monument is not considered as a value, so the distortion and preparations for destruction is not a counter value and nothing is done for maintenance and preservation of the monuments

Volume 5, Issue 2 (3-2014)
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  In this article, formation of the first modern state in Iran has been studied within the framework of sociological analysis of agency and structure. Each structure is formed of joint actions,which will be the basis for future actions. Each action, on the other hand, also happens within a structure that can cause its contiouity or discontiniouity. In this article,the aforesaid dialectical effects have been reviewed in a way that social structures on the eve of the conflicts of modernity process in the Constitutional history of Iran will be the reason of social tensions and they eventually turn in to authoritarian political structure to overcome the crises by social forces. The theory construction of this study has been formed by the using of the theory state of "Bertrand Badie" and "Pierre Birnbaum", and the research hypothesis has been extracted based on the relationship between social crises and essence of state. Data collection has been done by documentary method, and data analysis by historical method. The results showed that social crises accumulation in Iran and attitude of social forces towards centralism to overcome the crises of society have paved the way for a weak society and a maximal state in Iran.    

Volume 6, Issue 2 (6-2018)
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Aims: Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Organizational Justice (OJ) improve the effectiveness of work groups, in which they are exhibited. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between organizational citizenship behavior and organizational justice among Textile Industries’ Employees of Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Instrument and Methods: The population of the present descriptive-survey study, which was conducted in 2015, comprised 180 employees of Textile’ Industries in Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, using simple random sampling method. The employees who participated in this study were asked to complete 3 questionnaires, containing demographic questions, OCB (Mark´oczy and Xin,), and OJ (Fernandes and Awamleh,). The data were analyzed by SPSS 19 and LISREL 8.54 software, using Pearson Correlation Test (PCT) and Goodness-of-Fit indices.
Findings: There was a positive and significant correlation between OJ and its dimensions and employee’s OCB (r=0.560; p<0.01) and its dimensions, indicating that the employees, who perceived their organization, managers, and supervisor’s gestures fairly, represented high levels of organizational citizenship behaviors. Given the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) normal χ2 and indices of GFI, CFI (comparative fit index), NFI (normed fit index), and IFI (incremental fit indices) showed high fitness of model and that the associations between variables were logical according to theoretical of the study.
Conclusion: Organizational justice has a direct and positive effect on employees’ organizational citizenship behavior.

Volume 7, Issue 3 (10-2016)
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Since the beginning of emergence of Pakistan as an independent country, the conflict about Islamic state had begun between the secular and religious groups. “What is the role of Islam in the government?” was the question that Pakistan was facing in the last decades of 20th century. In response to the question, Muslim scholars proposed two answers: the first group suppose that Islam is equal to government and second group believe that the government in Islam has only one dimension and other dimensions of Islam are much more important than political dimension. .Ghamidi with passing from the first approach, that was evident in the opinions of Maududi and he was the chief spokesperson, placed his interpretation of Islam, Qur'an and Sunnah based on the second approach. From view of Ghamidi, politically Islamic society establishment is precedence over the Islamic government. This society is possible through an Islamic Revolution and Revolution will pave the way for an Islamic state. The Islamic state is combination of three groups: Muslims, Mu`ahids and Zimmis. Such a state based on pluralism in religion and politics.  

Volume 8, Issue 1 (4-2016)
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The purpose of this paper is to explain the sociological analysis of the divide of Iran in Qajar age. So by bringing up the question “the divide in Qajar age is the product of central government weakness or change the balance of power in central governments in the capitalist world (global) system” use sociological approach to study this socio-historical reality. Accordingly, this paper argues that the dissociation of some parts of Iran and geographical change in the country in Qajar age is a social change that according to Valrshtayn the change is took into account in the texture of a global system historically. For this purpose, In explaining the factors affecting the separation, The role of internal factors and external factors both are examined. The research method is historical case study and the data collection method is the library collection. For this purpose, In explaining the factors affecting the separation, The role of internal factors and external factors both are examined. The research method is historical case study and the data collection method is the library collection.

Volume 8, Issue 1 (4-2016)
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Serel ʹs Speech Act Theory and its Connection to Gender and classes of society in Garshasbnameh: Speech act is considered as one of the bases creating speech act in literal texts. Due to this theory, speech is information interaction in form of structure and speech act. The individualsʹ social position and situation can be analyzed according to the speech act in one certain text. Garshasbnameh, written by Asadi Tusi, dates back to 5 A.D and it is identified as one of the historical verses presenting remarkable speech acts. Theses speech acts varies from people’s gender. The current essay aims at bringing out, defining and analyzing the speech acts of both men and women in Garshasbnameh based on Serelʹs speech act theory. The speech acts of these characters have been evaluated by their social situations. The results of this study represent that there are gender inequalities between the males and females introduced in Garshasbnameh.

Volume 8, Issue 2 (10-2016)
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Zab basin is in the south part of Urmia Lake. The little Zab River in northwestern Iran rises at the Piranshehr mountains and flows from the northwest to the southeast to join Iraq through Alan passage. The river basin contains many ancient settlements. Based on pot sherds it can be inferred that this basin has been a residential zone since the prehistoric period. A noteworthy feature of this basin is the presence of Uruk pottery, including the beveled-rim bowl, at 5 sites in Zab basin. This pottery has not been seen either in the northwest of Iran or in the higher regions of Hamadan. For the first time this material is identified in the Little Zab basin. This pottery belongs to the late Uruk period, i.e. late fourth millennium BC. Geographical position and settlement patterns could be signs of commercial and cultural relations between societies of Northwestern Iran and northern Mesopotamia in late Chalcolithic.
 

Volume 8, Issue 4 (9-2020)
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Aims: Aim of the present study is to describe the history and outcomes of the Iranian Conference on Watershed Management Sciences and Engineering (WMSE) from 1973 to 2019.
Instruments & Methods: The archives of 14 WMSE conferences were first collected. Then, important information was derived and analyzed. 25 questionnaires were also analyzed.
Findings: The WMSE conference activities interrupted from late-1970s to early 1990s because of the Iran-Iraq war, Iranian Cultural Revolution and closure of the universities. Then, after 18 years from the 3rd WMSE conference, the Watershed Management Society of Iran (WMSI) decided to continue holding the series of watershed management conferences. According to the analysis of the last 11 conferences, 2794 papers with 5029 authors have been presented. In total, 2635, 2177, and 47 students respectively with PhD, MSc, and BSc students were contributed. In addition, 862 and 238 contributions were respectively made from university and research institute parts. The temporal pattern of number of papers published in the WMSE conference showed a cyclic pattern during 11 conferences which increased one and a half times (i.e., 54%) in seven years from 2008 to 2014, followed by a sharp decline in 2016 (71%; Yasouj City) and 2017 (77%; Malayer City).
Conclusion: Despite a large number of papers presented in the WMSE conferences, knowledge about the watershed governance needs to be improved. It was proved that 48, 32, 16, and 4% of the WMSE contributors respectively anticipated the medium, good, bad, and very bad future for WM state in the country.

Volume 9, Issue 38 (5-2021)
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the status of women and their role in literature of Qajar era in classic religious schools. We have selected seventy fairy tales from popular folk tales in the Qajar era. The conceptual model of this research is a combination of literary and sociological theories as well as qualitative research method and content analysis. After reading the textual body and extracting the data, we used the conceptual model of the study to examine the actions of women in the stories. The aim was to explain the various roles of women in stories. The findings show that considering the predominance of masculine discourse and gender-biased mentality, the political and social role of women in stories is prominent and their cultural, educational, and legal roles are very limited. The rest of the women's roles are located these two maximum and minimum poles.
 


Volume 10, Issue 1 (5-2020)
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The National Relics Society was one of the institutions established in the late years of the Qajar era and began its activity in the early Pahlavi era. During its activity time, the Society has undertaken a variety of activities in various fields, such as preserving historical buildings, building monuments for historical figures, and publishing books on various subjects. The main aim of this article is to investigate the factors that underlie the establishment of the National Relics Society. The main question of this article is that which groups and to what extends had a role in the establishment of the National Relics Society? This research is based on the historical research method and relies on the analysis of the content of the first-hand sources of the period in question. The Findings of the research show that three influential groups had a role in the establishment of the Society: modernist scholars, political elites and orientalists. The ideas of the scholars, mainly reflected in journals such as Kaveh, Iranshahr, and Namehyeh-Farangestan, seem to provide the idea of the Society. Moreover, political elites became the practical power of this idea to founding the society, and finally, the orientalists played a significant role in outlining its activities.


Volume 10, Issue 2 (7-2018)
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this paper tries to explain the relations between ideology of modern state and the Iranian society utopias under era of Pahlavi regime and attempts to use the views of social and political scientists to analyze the ideological nature of the Pahlavi government for social change. Article shows that what was the main cause of social resistance and “antagonism” in Iranian society against the demands of the Pahlavi government? The sociology of knowledge which is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context is the methodology of this paper and the present paper uses a descriptive and analytical method of the “Migdal” theory of “weak state”, social control theories, and social change views as well as Carl Mannheim's views to assess the relationship between government and society in Iran. The main idea of the paper is that, since the ruling ideology did not respond to the Utopia of the “weblike” community, the ideological government and the Utopian weblike society in Iran failed to come together and eventually enter into a pattern of contradictory embedding.


Volume 11, Issue 1 (10-2019)
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This study examines One of the socio-cultural categories of contemporary Iranian history, The rate of early marriage for girls in in Tehran city During the last two decades of the Pahlavi regime. This article, In other words, With emphasis on the project of modernization of the second Pahlavi regime during the two decades of the forty-fifty, examines The effects of this modernization project on the Tehran city Focusing on the three indicators of urbanization, the social status of women, and the level of education and literacy in society, And then in the framework of the theory of modernization Analyzes the relationship between these components of the macro-scale transformation at the community level with one of the social phenomena, namely, the rate of early marriage among girls During the same period of time. The research method in this paper is a secondary analysis based on quantitative and qualitative data, in addition, Methods and Tools for the Data collection was the Library and Documentary study that was conducted by taking notes and Calculation of the Statistics and raw data. The findings imply as the second Pahlavi regime's efforts to modernize and develop in the Iranian society increased and as a result, urbanization, the social status of women, and the level of literacy in the urban community of Iran followed a rising trend, On the other hand, Reduced the Early marriage rates for girls.


Volume 11, Issue 1 (10-2019)
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Social institutions in the Islamic society of the Prophet era were formed while observing the position of women and their presence in various fields. Granting human values to women and enhancing their social standing in Islamic society, has led to the emergence of Islamic norms in line with Qoranic values, based on divine teachings concerning the promotion of women's status in society. Removing barriers to women's social presence and removing social prohibitions and correcting ignorant assumptions about women have opened up new social arenas for women's active participation and the humiliation of the ignorant age has given way to human values and cultural encouragement, which has led to empathetic and active women in various social aspects such as scientific, cultural, governmental, political, and economic spheres. Accordingly, this thesis attempts to study the role of women in the history of the Prophet's era, based on Qoranic and prophetic roles, and to identify their presence in the development of Medina's social institutions and factors affecting them and describe the growth of women's cultural and social struggles in this field through a descriptive-analytical approach and answer the questions.


Volume 11, Issue 4 (12-2023)
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Psychological analysis of character is one of the sub-branches of psychological criticism in which behavioral patterns of characters are explained by analyzing the content of the story. In the theory of mutual behavior analysis, Eric Berne divides human personalities into three behavioral patterns: parents (imitative and internal beliefs), children (excited behavior and uncensored instincts) and adults (processors and rationalists) and states that the dimensions The above exists in all humans. But one dimension is more dominant and evolved man should be able to use all three dimensions in their place. Because this leads to mutual understanding and improved relationships between people. In this research, referring to the interdisciplinary nature of psychological criticism of literary works, two novels are part of the whole work of Steve Toltz and Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum has been compared and analyzed using Eric Burn's interactive behavior analysis theory with descriptive-analytical method. The research results show that the main characters of the mentioned novels change freely and at their own will by using the power of choice and give logical responses to new stimuli. In addition, although the main characters of the two selected novels were created in two different languages and two different cultural environments, and with a time gap of about 10 years, in two different countries, they follow a similar pattern perspective. Analysis of mutual behavior, such that the framework, structure, pillar and main message of both novels are based on the formation of mature thoughts.


Volume 12, Issue 3 (10-2008)
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The performance of criminal justice, which is the aim of each criminal proceedings, will not have any chance to be appeared without holding a fair trial, in which the rights and freedoms of the accused, victim and other individuals engaged in the criminal process are respectably recognized. The public trail occurs in a situation, in which the hearings charging to the accused are held and managed without any obstacles for the attendance of the ordinary persons and the public media. This situation is considered nowadays as one of the main elements of fair trials and a right of human rights in the criminal actions. Any departure from the principle of the public trial shall be deemed and considered as the breach of the conditions of fair trials and ignorance of the primary rights of individuals, except in the cases specified and contained in the law, which are applied just in the democratic conditions and as a result of the balance of interest and contradictory values. In spite of some early conceptions that generally recognize the elements of a fair trial as the defender of the rights of the accused, the public trail guarantee some advantages and interests for the society. Thus, the individual right of the accused together with the public interest of society should be defined and explained in the frame of the principles of the public trial. This paper describes the subjective principles of the public trial after introducing and presenting the initial problems.

Volume 13, Issue 2 (3-2022)
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Urban planning of Tehran until the period of Naser al-Din Shah continued in the style of urban planning of the Safavid period. This method only met the needs of a traditional city in various limited political, economic and social dimensions. From the time of Nasser al-Din Shah, Tehran as the capital of Iran in the Qajar period and in the face of the Western world became a platform for developments in the field of urban planning and a model for other cities in Iran in this field; However, these developments did not enter the city in its pure Western form and appeared in a mixed and influenced by the traditional Iranian society. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the impact of Western civilization and urban society of Tehran on the continuity and physical-spatial evolution of the city in the Naseri period. This research based on descriptive-analytical method has investigated this issue. The findings of this study show that the physical part of Tehran entered a new phase during the reign of Nasser al-Din Shah, influenced by Western civilization. These physical-spatial changes were not simply influenced by the modern Western world; Rather, indigenous cultural and artistic forces combined new influences with Iranian architecture. These developments were achieved on the one hand in the method of urban renewal in various dimensions and on the other hand in the quantitative dimension and the growth, reproduction and multiplicity of elements of the city.

Volume 13, Issue 4 (9-2010)
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Researchers that have analyzed the digital divide complain about the lack of a standard set of indicators, which appropriately measure the digital divide between countries, Their statistics can be collected by the majority of countries and serve as a basis and a standard for internationally comparable information society statistics. In this article, a framework of these indicators, which are called “core indicators of digital divide”, is presented that can narrow the ICT data and statistics divide through formulating standards and synchronizing ICT statistics throughout the world. To extract the core indicators, we are encountering the limitations of the nonexistence of data for some indicators in the majority of countries. Such a limitation does not allow us to apply the statistical methods to extracting the core indicators of digital divide. To overcome this problem, the information and the knowledge of 45 digital divide models were employed as experts' opinions to extract the core indicators. To do so, the entropy method was used and the importance of these models was considered. Finally, comparing the previous global core indicators of digital divide and the proposed ones, it was revealed that the global core indicators ignored three important dimensions: e-learning e-government, and networked world enablers.

Volume 16, Issue 4 (12-2016)
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According to the Holy Islam, there are mutual relationships between citizens and the state in an Islamic society; which imply complement duties for both sides. The Sharia has defined different responsibilities for the citizens, which in accordance with the Islamic state will result in a better society. Among these responsibilities is the reaction of a Muslim when witnessing a crime in the society. By using the game theory approach we have studied the consequences of two Islamic orders, i.e. enjoining right and forbidding wrong. We have modeled the reactions of the people when seeing a crime in the society in the framework of a strategic game with VNM preferences. The results show that not paying enough attention to these two valuable orders would reduce the individual and social utility. In other words, if people follow the enjoining right and forbidding wrong, the economic and social costs of crime for the society will decrease and the social welfare will increase.

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