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Definition of culture There are many different definitions of culture available with various emphasis, however I personally mostly agree with Allan Blooms' definition: Culture allows rich social live at high level, it constituted humankind as one, his customs, style, taste, holidays, rituals, gods, virtually everything which bind individuals to group, to his origins. Its integrates people to community, which is expression of their common will and mindset, moreover community members are producing moral unity within group (Allan Bloom, as cited in Gazova, 2009, p.20.)                             Iranianstudies-Ivan...ادامه مطلب

Iran could be considered as special case, when it came to role of inteet in society. In Middle East, Iran has biggest number of inteet users, but in same time inteet penetration is just 68.5% which put country in 9th position in Middle East. Moreover, Iran host the biggest Middle Easte Facebook community with approximately 17,200,000 users even when use of Facebook is banned by govement. (InteetWorldStats, 2016) Censorship in Iran could be tracked to 2002 when Supreme leader issued order to Inteet service providers to block access to morally questionable websites. (Halderman, Sim Iranianstudies-Ivan...ادامه مطلب

This post will briefly enlighten on regional differences in Iran at issues of marriage and divorce rate, with aim to promote regional approach. Graphs are in email annex. According to statistics provided by National Organization for Civil Registration, marriage rate (later MR) in Iran is quite stable with increase of 0,04% between year 1383/1394. But, when population growth will be taken to consideration, which was 6,6% from 2006 to 2011 recorded by National Housing and Population Census, stabilization of MR means it's decrease. For this crisis, some people blame housing situation especially i Iranianstudies-Ivan...ادامه مطلب

Iranian national identity Identity is the way, how we are perceiving ourselves. It represents our place in society. Its summary of our identification with various groups according to categories, which we considered significant as religion, language, nationality, gender etc. With states its similar.                                                  Iranian national identity is quite aptly presented in country name: Islamic Republic of Iran.  Iran understand itself as part of Islamic world, ruled by Sharia law. It is important to note that even when official state religion is Twelver Shia Islam, Iran does not represent itself as distinctive Shia state.                                                                                                                                         Secondly term Islamic Republic represents revolutionary, democratic modeity, in compar Iranianstudies-Ivan...ادامه مطلب