bahareh hagihosseni; ezatallah samaram
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In this article, the reformist discourse of Khatami's Administration is analyzed and the status of poverty alleviation is designated. The authors presume that discourses construct realities, so discourse analysis is important for tracing the roots of any phenomena. Therefore, the authors have examined ...
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In this article, the reformist discourse of Khatami's Administration is analyzed and the status of poverty alleviation is designated. The authors presume that discourses construct realities, so discourse analysis is important for tracing the roots of any phenomena. Therefore, the authors have examined the related texts (including the selected speeches and development plans) by using Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory and Fairclaugh's Critical Discourse Analysis. Findings indicate that in the reformist discourse of Khatami's Administration, "political development" was the master signifier and other signifiers, including poverty alleviation, gained their final meaning as the result of subjection to it. In other words, poverty alleviation was postponed until the achievement of political development. According to the theoretical findings, the reformist discourse was constituted by articulating the signifiers of liberalism discourse and the Islamic Revolution meta-discourse. As poverty alleviation is not the master signifier in liberalism -it is in fact a by-product of political and economic development- the reality which is produced by this discourse does not pay attention to poverty alleviation as a main issue and marginalizes it.
hossein basirianjahromi; hadi khaniki
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This Article is intended to examine the current Iranian policy towards social media & the effective forces ruling this policy & future trends. So, during the interviews with 20 key Iranian policy-makers of virtual space, it provides a different & new cognition towards this challenging issue ...
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This Article is intended to examine the current Iranian policy towards social media & the effective forces ruling this policy & future trends. So, during the interviews with 20 key Iranian policy-makers of virtual space, it provides a different & new cognition towards this challenging issue in Iranian social media policy-making. The statement of problem, concerns the conflict between policy-maker's mental paradigms & how the users use these media, which provide a proposed model to ameliorate the status quo between their media consumption & some determinative policy (like Filtering). Commixing the findings of systematic reviews of selected researches, with implementation and analysis of interviews through open, axial and selective coding with qualitative data analysis software MAXQDA, conducted to a proposed model for policy-making in this field. The research outcome determines that policy makers viewpoint to the social media is not necessarily in conflict with the users usage, but the inadequacy of existing structures, ignoring legal, administrative or controlling tools, as well as scattered policy making methods, provide too many challenges for social media policy-making. This has made it too difficult for policy-making institutions to converge & synergize. This article also emanates from the first academic research as a Ph.D thesis in social communication sciences, which is done after the establishment of "Supreme Council of Cyberspace" (by Iranian Supreme Leader in 2012) & the "Computer Crimes Law", passed by the Iranian parliament in 2010.
sadegheh salehe; aliasghar ferozjaian; fatemeh gholamrezazadeh
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Today, addressing environmental issues as well as planning for environmental protection for creating a suitable environment for human life, has become one of the main concerns of governments around the world. This resulted in confronting and problem solving environmental policy issues to site on the ...
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Today, addressing environmental issues as well as planning for environmental protection for creating a suitable environment for human life, has become one of the main concerns of governments around the world. This resulted in confronting and problem solving environmental policy issues to site on the agenda of governments. The Islamic Republic of Iran has considered the environmental issues in the form of Five-Year Programs for Economic, Social and Cultural Development plans. The main questions of this study are as follows: A. what is the place of environment in strategic national development plans of the Islamic Republic of Iran? B. What kind of environmental discourse has dominated on the five-year development programs? This study has utilized documentary method. The results of the study show that the first and third Development Program were affected by discourse of environmentalism and in the fourth and fifth ones, development discourse of ecosystem were dominant. The result also indicates that environmental justice was not considered in the Five-Year Economic Development Plans. The paper ended up with the suggestion that regarding ecosystem discourse as well as environmental justice, there is a critical need for setting up National Environmental Policy.
somayeh sadat Shafiee; zahra porbagher
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The article studies women situation in Iran and Turkey in terms of the main indicators of human development. Comparatively documentary and data analyzing, it attempts to answer how is the gender gap and what is the Gender Development Index in these two countries. To do this, human development with indicators ...
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The article studies women situation in Iran and Turkey in terms of the main indicators of human development. Comparatively documentary and data analyzing, it attempts to answer how is the gender gap and what is the Gender Development Index in these two countries. To do this, human development with indicators such as education, health, economy and politic base on sex ratio were studied. Domestic data of Statistical Centre of Iran, Turkish Statistical Institute and international ones such as World Bank organization, human development reports and global gender gap report of world economic forum were referred. Findings clarify that with the exception of determinants of Health indicator which are reported by and large similar situation; the situation of women politic and economic indicators in Turkey implies higher level of development in Turkey. This is somehow because of protective legal measures of state. Also it should be mentioned that significant improvement of education indicator among Iranian women is an issue which necessitates strategic management with taking to consideration other indicators of human development.
soheli alirezanejad; sahar khakpor; sorosh fathi
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The precise question in this research is which financial resources are at women disposal in the family? Can they make financial decisions? Answering these questions, a theoretical framework based on Bordiou, Giddens’s and Hakim’s view was made and a mixed method of qualitative and survey ...
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The precise question in this research is which financial resources are at women disposal in the family? Can they make financial decisions? Answering these questions, a theoretical framework based on Bordiou, Giddens’s and Hakim’s view was made and a mixed method of qualitative and survey was designed. In the qualitative phase data was gathered by using semi structured interviews; and a questionnaire was designed to gather data in the second phase. There are four types of financial resources for women: 1- domestic money 2- pin money 3- heritage 4-salary. Salary is the only income which is not due to women’s traditional social roles. According to data women cannot make decision for important financial matters. It doesn’t seem that by increasing women’s financial resources, the same trend about their supervision on these resources happens. But by increasing women’s access to financial resources, shared decision makings on key financial matters between couples was seen.
vakel hedari sareban; hamdallah sojasighedari; tahereh sadeghlo
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The job satisfaction is one of the important factors in increasing efficiency and productivity and individual satisfaction of farmers. Former studies show that social capital is one of the important factors in increasing farmer's job satisfaction. This study with descriptive and analytical methodology ...
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The job satisfaction is one of the important factors in increasing efficiency and productivity and individual satisfaction of farmers. Former studies show that social capital is one of the important factors in increasing farmer's job satisfaction. This study with descriptive and analytical methodology has been done with purpose of analyzing the role of social capital on farmer’s job satisfaction in MeshkinshahrCounty. Using survey method, data gathering was done by document and field study via questionnaires among 185 farmers of Meshkinshahr which were selected randomly. The other data were gathered through interview, observation and documentary study. Validity and reliability of questionnaire were approved by academic experts of this fields and significant level of Cranach's alpha in pilot study. Regarding Pierson correlation, findings show all dimensions of social capital with the exception of conflicts and disputes’ level and membership in local institutions and social relations, there are direct and meaningful correlations among variables and level of job satisfaction of rural farmers. Ultimately, based on the results of Beta coefficient, the role of social solidarity in explaining the advancement of farmer's job satisfaction as a depended variable is more than the other variables.
karam habibporgatabi
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Present paper do investigate the educational policy in Iran by conceptual system of governmentality and accordance to Mitchel Dean’s “analytics of government” framework in three dimensions such as rationalities/discourses, technologies and subjects of government. Mmethodologically, ...
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Present paper do investigate the educational policy in Iran by conceptual system of governmentality and accordance to Mitchel Dean’s “analytics of government” framework in three dimensions such as rationalities/discourses, technologies and subjects of government. Mmethodologically, mixed method of both Focaultian discourse analysis and genealogy were used. Statistical population consists of texts of educational policy such as laws of development plans in Iran’ Islamic pre and post-revolution era. Findings showed that governmentality which run educational policy in Iran is neo-conservative governmentality. The ideas of this governmentality are signified with returning to past, preservation and stabilization of order, attention to values, state hegemony and centralism. Educational policies in Iran operate with mixture of technologies of domination/power (governing on others) and technologies of self (governing on self). In addition, subjectivities of educational policy in development plans in pre and post-revolution have different forms. So that in pre-revolution ones, the most properties of subjects were vocationalism, professionalism, job-generation and entrepreneurship, while in after revolution ones, the ethical and value aspect of subjects were dominated. Results implies that the ultimate goal of educational policy in Iran is conducting subjects’ behavior in accordance with final values of neo-conservatism governmentality.
mozhgan farsi
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مقاله شناسی20 شمارة فصلنامه برنامه ریزی رفاه و توسعة اجتماعی. مژگان فارسی
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مقاله شناسی20 شمارة فصلنامه برنامه ریزی رفاه و توسعة اجتماعی. مژگان فارسی
