Muhammad Saeed Zokaee; Mahdi Omidi
Abstract
This paper aims to clarify the relationships between religion, consumption and everyday life. In doing so and relying on new social science theories and key relevant scholars we have identified the interconnections between these concepts and have evaluated their importance in contemporary world from ...
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This paper aims to clarify the relationships between religion, consumption and everyday life. In doing so and relying on new social science theories and key relevant scholars we have identified the interconnections between these concepts and have evaluated their importance in contemporary world from different points of views. Drawing on a plural and multidimensional approach, the joint cause and preoccupation of religion and consumption to create a meaningful life has been discussed. we suggest that the modern life subject has been rather represented as an entity capable of constructing this/her own identity. Religion and consumption as manifested in the forms of religiosity and consumerism forces seek to enjoy the exclusive rights to interpret and make meaning of everyday life and thereby to provide identity for a metropolitan subject. The paper ends reviewing plural, complex and ambiguous and irreducible dimensions of the relationship religion and consumption pose in everyday urban life.
Mahdi Omidi; Masoumeh Qarakhani
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This study aims to identify the space of scientific community of the humanities in Iran. Using a qualitative approach, the research findings were divided and Extracted based on communicative and normative dimensions of the scientific community. The notions such as "incoherent and unstable", "Weakness ...
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This study aims to identify the space of scientific community of the humanities in Iran. Using a qualitative approach, the research findings were divided and Extracted based on communicative and normative dimensions of the scientific community. The notions such as "incoherent and unstable", "Weakness of actors", "dominance of politics over science", and "special relationship between power and legitimacy" are among the prominent characteristics of communicative system of scientific community in the humanities of Iran. The "weakness of criticism", " incomplete socialization", "disproportionate allocation of resources", "avoiding to take the responsibility of professional roles" are also considered as the prominent characteristics of normative system of scientific community in the humanities of Iran. These notions in combination or interaction with each other have concealed the potential of the scientific community in the humanities of Iran both in developing the up-to-date and applied knowledge, and it has also hindered the impact of knowledge on society.
Muhammad Saeed Zokaei; Mahdi Omidi
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Autumn 2017, , Pages 19-44
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In this article we have studied the place of consumption in the life world of the citizens of Tehran. Consequently we concentrate on the place of consumption in the cluster of the living expierences of the citizens and its role on shping of Tehran urban spaces and the liquid identities of this ...
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In this article we have studied the place of consumption in the life world of the citizens of Tehran. Consequently we concentrate on the place of consumption in the cluster of the living expierences of the citizens and its role on shping of Tehran urban spaces and the liquid identities of this metropolis and analyze the effect of consumption on the constructing of the identity of the city and its citizens. This researh has been done using grounded theory and participant and immediate observation and also interview with 31 Tehranian citizens. The consequencies have been organized under 8 primary and some secondary codes. Bridging between analytical levels instead of remaining on micro or macro levels of analysis and also adopting multidimensional approach for surveying paradoxical dimensions of consumption, which is itself an upshot of the paradoxical condition of the historical context of doing consuming practices, are of the traits of this inquiry.
