based on a new approach to the holly qur'an and to the behavior of the wise, the present paper studies political taghiyyeh (act of concealing one's own belief). after elaborating on the concept of taghiyyeh briefly, personal and socio-political taghiyyeh are explained. with respect to personal taghiyyeh, there is a discussion over the obligatory precepts of the types of taghiyyeh base...

the main purpose of this article is to study comparatively the political participation of young and middle-aged people in noorabad mamasani and its related social factors. to explain the research problem, we have used the theory of political socialization and milbrath’s theory. we distributed questionnaires among 610 young and middle aged people in noorabad mamasani, who were selected through a...

the present research seeks to answer the fundamental question of how the belief in the plot of conspiracy as a cultural barrier to the achievement of the Iranian society of political development has worked. In this research, using the documentary, historical and analytical method, the sociological analysis of the influence of the belief in the plot of conspiracy in the failure of the Iranian so...

Novel communication technologies significantly influence proactive behaviours by expanding and developing information highways and using satellite and computer facilities in the world. These influences can be examined in political, social, economic, and cultural aspects and so on. The main purpose of current research is to study the cyberspace role in political development from the student's vi...

this paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in southwestern nigeria. the data comprised purposively selected political visual artefacts from political rallies across the six southwestern states in nigeria (osun, oyo, ondo, ekiti, ogun, and lagos). the data were analyzed using halliday’s (1985) syste...

Due to its artificial and unnatural structure, Israeli society has since the beginning of its establishment, been a context for the emergence of different kinds of cleavages and tensions. This state of affairs has endangered the political stability of the Israeli regime. The present research is trying to answer this question: what is the effect of religious-secular cleavages in Israel on the fu...