Ali Entezari استادیار دانشکدة علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی author Atefeh Aghaie دانشجوی دکتری ارتباطات، دانشگاه تهران author text article 2014 per The purpose of this research is to explicate the characteristics of the culture of criticism and dialogue among Iranian humanities scholars. This research is a quantitative, descriptive, and interpretive one. Documentary research and content analysis method have been employed in this research. The statistical population of this study consisted of all criticisms, dialogues, critical letters, and rebuffs published in specialized journals of humanities from 1385 to 1391. The sampling method was purposive (intentional) and the sample size involved 45 critical scripts (i.e., something about 200 pages). The results of the survey indicate that the characteristics of the culture of criticism and dialogue between humanities scholars are more destructive rather than constructive, more rational and perceptual rather than sensational, and more source-oriented rather than message-oriented. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 1 no. 2014 1 32 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1414_d897ac09d689602a4449cfaa103a9b31.pdf Fariba Zamani کارشناس ارشد توسعه و برنامه‌ریزی، پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی author text article 2014 per Today, the escape of girlsfrom home and its consequences is one themounting social concerns in lots of countries. The general statistics reveal that the issue is reaching crisis point, particularly in Iran. The present paper, which is part of a research project, explores the roleof families ingirls’ home-runaways, as a vulnerable group of the society. The adopted research method is descriptive-exploratory. In collecting data, instruments like documents and reports, questionnaires and interviews—conducted in Evin prison and rehabilitation centers—were employed. Relying on available sociological theories, the present research aims to investigate the family statuses and other factors effective in girls’ home-runaways, and subsequent delinquency of teenage and young girls in Tehran. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 1 no. 2014 33 58 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1415_3971412ee98bafb292aa8f4ca7bd3ae9.pdf Elham Karami کارشناس ارشد پژوهش علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه علوم و تحقیقات تهران، پژوهشگر author Bagher Saroukhani استاد گروه جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات تهران author text article 2014 per The main purpose of the present research is to study the imageprojected by the movies, as a mass medium, in terms ofculture, values, social norms,and life style in general, to the audience. To that aim, thirty movies out of the screened movies in the 1380s were selected and taken into consideration. In analyzing the movies, two criteria of “social genre”,as registered by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and “being a bestseller” (having the largest audience) were taken into consideration. The theoretical framework for analyzing the movies’ lifestyle has been a combination of Shariatitheory and that of Rashad, in which three types of lifestyles, namely, Traditional and Dogmatic", "European and Modern", and "Religious and Innovative" have been proposed for the Iranian society.The findings of the research reveal that in the investigated movies of the 1380s the criterion of "European and modern" lifestyle has been broadcast and publicized more widely than the two other lifestyles. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 1 no. 2014 59 86 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1416_105fd8a7fffc2390e04f8f82d4beaf81.pdf Majid Movahed دانشیار بخش جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه شیراز author Soha Azemat کارشناس ‌ارشد جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه شیراز author Zahra Moaven دانشجوی دکتری جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه شیراز author text article 2014 per The aim of this study is to evaluate the cultural factors associated with attitudes toward abortion. The research population consisted of six-hundred youngstersin Shiraz, ranging from 18 to 29, whowere selected randomly. The data was collected through conducting questionnaires. This study included eight hypotheses; two of which were rejected.Among the demographic variables (age, sex, and number of children), all the variables except for number of children were seen to be statistically significant in the youth attitudes towards abortion. Among the cultural variables (religious values, religious beliefs,rate of using local and foreign media, attitudes towards opposite-sex relations prior to marriage, and abortion experience of the respondents),  all the variables were seen to be statistically significant except for the abortion experience of the respondents whichdid notshowa significant relationship with the dependent variable of the study. The results of multivariate regression and unvaried and multivariate testsshow that women holda more favorableattitude towards abortion than men, and religious values and religious beliefs were effective in more negative attitudes towards abortion. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 1 no. 2014 87 111 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1417_4776f2e532abf0ffe485ad4223ff4d5d.pdf Mehrdad Noorayi دانشیار پژوهشکدة علوم اجتماعی، پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی author text article 2014 per Culture, due to its dynamic nature, is the origin of novel experiences which are gradually engraved on the collective memory of the individuals. Cultural transformation occurs in a way that emergence of any new mentality does not necessarily lead to disremembering the previous ones. This characteristic of culture forms a collection, which through the passage of time, from past to the future, keeps being enriched and gaining deeper roots. Among the outstanding characteristics of culture, we need to refer to its coordinating role through which a social being could be linked with the environment. In this sense, the environment is not limited to an individual’s surroundings, but expands to involve the relationships with other cultures. Thus, cultural adjacency, due to the existing interactions between cultures, is not tensioning for the societies, and does not result in cultural identity crises. Contrariwise, the one-sided influence of the foreign values, particularly as a result of expansion of media relations accompanied with time-space separation, can pave the way for cultural identity crises. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 1 no. 2014 113 121 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1418_470e9c5dff6692c1a622651641d7f2ea.pdf Mohsen Niazi استاد گروه علوم اجتماعی، دانشکدة علوم انسانی، دانشگاه کاشان author Elham Shafaiimoghaddam دانشجوی دکتری بررسی مسائل اجتماعی ایران، دانشگاه کاشان author text article 2014 per Today, fatalism isconsidered by social sciences experts as both a type of cultural belief and a socio-cultural barrier. Investigating this concept as viewed by women is of great significance, given the fact that they form half of the body of the society. Accordingly, the present paper aims to investigate the rate of fatalism in women and factors affecting that among the participants of this study. The study is a social survey and the data was collected through conducting questionnaires. The Cranach alpha value confirmed the reliability of the research scales. The research population consisted of women over the age of fifteen in Kashan and Aran&Bidgol in the year 2011. Through Cochran measuring formula, four hundred women were selected as the sample size and were studied by employing Quota method. The values of Pearson correlation coefficient indicate significant relationships between the variables of conventionalism (r=.574), gender-based generalizability (r=.409), lax disciplinary treatment (r=.155), authoritative disciplinary treatment (r=.256), and totalitarian disciplinary treatment (r=.367), and the rate of fatalism among the respondents. The results of regression analyses reveal that the most effective factor in fatalism relates to the variable of conventionalism, rating B= .48. The second most effective factor is gander-based generalizability, and the third stance belongs to authoritative disciplinary treatment, rating B=.084. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 1 no. 2014 123 147 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1419_7cbdbc6f64ec74b29f1ff9616db24480.pdf