mohammad reza javadi yeganeh دانشیار جامعه‌شناسی، دانشکده علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه تهران author armin amir دانشجوی دکتری جامعه‌شناسی نظری و فرهنگی، دانشکده علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه تهران author text article 2015 per Although Seyed Mohammad-Ali Jamal-zadeh is known as one of the three founders of contemporary Iranian literature in the field of story, it's not the only reason for his fame. He has also published a book named Iranian's Character in 1345 (1966) which has been read and referred much more than any book written in the field of national character, in Iran. In the book, Jamal-zadeh acts like a physician, not a literary man, to diagnose the pain of Iranian society which he calls ‘decay’. But, what is that decay which holds Iran from becoming as developed as the West? Surely  it’s people character, Jamal-zadeh says. In short, it is because of our ethic that we are such undeveloped. Fortunately, western travelers, intellectuals and politicians diagnosed those ethics and told us about them. Then, the only thing we should do is admitting our weaknesses and following their instructions. But this is not the whole story. We ask: what allows Jamal-zadeh to call Iranians with such negative and humiliating accent? Edward Said knows the answer: self-orientalism or self-orientalizing. Publishing Orientalism in late 1970's, Said created a new wave in the post-colonial studies tradition. He believes that Orientalism is not just an academic discipline, but also a discourse facilitating European countries colonization and exploitation over the East. In order to reaching this purpose, Orientalism had to create a new orient which hadn't any relationship with the real one; rather, it was something useful for colonizing purposes. It means that the Euro-centrism governing the orientalists had colonial benefits in developing the Orientalism discourse. So, this essay aimed to test Jamal-zadeh's Iranian Character against the touchstone of Said's Orientalism and self-Orientalism. We will show that Iranian Character can be considered as a self-orientalizing book. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 4 no. 2015 1 18 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1720_e13f548f0b1706e679fc3cedf494428e.pdf Bijan Khaje Noori Khaje Noori دانشیار جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه شیراز author Seyed Ebrahim Mosavat دانش‌جوی دکتری جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه یاسوج author Zahra Riyahi کارشناس ‌ارشد‌‌‌ جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه شیراز author text article 2015 per Adolescence is a valuable time to learn social responsibility, since in this period person likes to have more independence and should make decisions about some values ​​and behavioral methods. One of the major factors which can lead teens to make better choices is the levels of personal and social responsibility. In this way, this study is investigating the relationship between life style, and social and personal responsibility among Shirazian students. The study has been conducted using the survey method and the needed data have been gathered applying self-report questionnaires. In general, findings show that although the personal responsibility and responsibility among girls is more than boys, but boys’ social responsibility is more than girls’ social responsibility. In addition social and personal responsibility and responsibility in school have significant relationship with different dimensions of life style. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 4 no. 2015 19 36 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1721_81af6c9ee841610f660a34dd2d03057a.pdf seyyed abootorab siahpoosh مربی پژوهشکدة مطالعات اجتماعی، پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی author text article 2015 per At the beginning of the 5th century BC, in a small geographic part of ancient Greece, a civilized way of life in the form of the prominent organization of Police was constituted. This ancient land and its coastal shores were inhabited by various ethnic groups one of which called ‘Achaean’. A tribe of that ethnic group took the place of them in the region of ‘Hellas’ and from this point onwards, the Greeks called themselves ‘Hellenistic’. Surpassing the old world and the ‘dark ages’, original Hellenists established a brilliant civilization from the 5th century BC onwards. An articulated and regular organization was one of the prominent elements of Hellenistic culture, on which Greek education and upbringing founded. After the conquests of Alexander, a blend of defeated nations’ culture and knowledge and Hellenistic civilization formed a new civilization, which is ascribed as hybrid Hellenistic (Heleni Maabi) against pure Hellenistic. One of the valuable elements in the hybrid Hellenistic, was natural philosophy, a philosophy which was common among thoughts of scientists and educated people all around the Greek Empire, and influenced the East and the West in various aspects till a few centuries AD. The reaction against it began in the Middle East and led to diminution of regressive thoughts toward the wisdom of Hellenism. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 4 no. 2015 37 58 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1722_66c2491bed7754ebc203fa54862b80f9.pdf Ali Ashraf Sadeqi کارشناس ارشد جامعه‌شناسی، دانشگاه رازی کرمانشاه author Homayun Moradkhani دکترای جامعه‌شناسی، استادیار دانشگاه رازی کرمانشاه author text article 2015 per The aim of this research is to study the way the discourse framework of identity is represented in primary-school Persian textbooks. In the same vein, the texts were analyzed based on the theory of Laclau and Mouffe in this study. The results suggest that although the nodal point in these text books is religion, other identity elements and resources are also observed in these texts where each is articulated in a certain way in religious discourse. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 4 no. 2015 59 88 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1723_04cedced369ec667a443c32885543972.pdf Roohangiz Karachi دانشیار پژوهشکدة ادبیات، پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی author text article 2015 per This study considers Mowlana's views on women, who are affected by social factors and patriarchal society. 13th century, Mowlana’s time, was marked by political crisis and social unrest in Iran. During that period, while fatalism, moralism and anti-rationalism were prevailed, Sufism flourished as an escape route from the harsh realities of the society and found many followers. Asceticism and meditation were the main Sufis’s practices and the suppression of the carnal desires was greatly encouraged. In this cultural and social context, Sufis naturally regarded women as seducers and sensuous creatures who could lead them astray and therefore restricted and disparaged them. This attitude gradually led to the total seclusion of women and keeping them back from active social life. Mowlana’s major work, Masnavi, the most influential work in Persian literature, involves many instructive stories in some of them women are the main characters. Considering these stories, we want to know whether the picture in which women are represented in the work is symbolic or somehow reflects women’s social place in the patriarchal culture of the time, or they are involved only for instructive purposes. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 4 no. 2015 89 106 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1724_3dc8f2a3c8d4297f64f5b9afb2611464.pdf Soraya Maknoon دکترای تعلیم و تربیت، دانشیار پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی author text article 2015 per To recognize the public sectors needs, ‘social welfare’ is the main variable in the field of governmental macro planning, and the way to achieve that, for each social strata, is depended on geographical, cultural and historical conditions of the region. The purpose of this paper is to report a part of a socio-cultural needs assessment study of Tehran metropolis (approved by the research council of Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies) concerning the relationship between education and occupation, choosing three categories of material, moral, and spiritual needs. IHCS 2383-0468 5 v. 4 no. 2015 107 128 https://socialstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_1725_57491a9ff00220b9311662fec6acfbb7.pdf