Despite the ongoing "war" between methodological camps this paper will argue for an integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in the sociological research process. For this purpose a short overview about important methodological discussions addressing basic questions of mixed (qualitative and quantitative) method designs will be given focusing on the term "triangulation" which is seen...

The purpose of the present paper is to peruse the sociological effects of media on youth domestic values. The statistical population consists of the cities of Mazandaran in 2016 which have access to the sociological effects of media on youth domestic values with utilizing a simple random sampling technique. The statistical population consisted of 110, 321 youth (men and women) at Mazandaran. A ...

In recent years, there has been a great deal of collective rumination about social scientists' role in society. In the post-1997 UK context, public policy commitments to 'evidence-based policy' and 'knowledge transfer' have further stimulated such reflections. More recently, Michael Burawoy's 2004 address to the American Sociological Association, which called for greater engagement with 'public...

We present a two-assignment series that developed students’ sociological imaginations and could be done in face-to-face or online course. The used the Sociological Images blog own visual images (e.g., photographs) to meet course learning goals: (1) link theories concepts social events/trends, (2) apply these ideas real life by identifying sociologically relevant daily life, (3) communicate anal...