Reification of television images is facilitated by the western bias of logocentrism which itself is an attitude born of the modern mental-rational, perspectival consciousness structure. Before proceeding further it is useful to clarify what is meant by "logocentrism", and "perspectival consciousness". This paper proceeds in three stages; first an investigation into logocentrism, second a clarif...

wide-ranging sociological studies have been conducted on the history of iranian intellectuality and modernism. the findings jointly acknowledge that due to communication with the west and following the effects that was received from modernism, the first generation of iranian intellectualism was emerged. it is said that having benefited from the translated works in its general concept, i.e. incl...

The aim of this article is to analyse, on the one hand, relation between modern ideas utopia and post/decolonial criticism Eurocentric sources such conceptualizations and, other expand critique historicism teleological approaches with help ecofeminist visions. Current forms everyday utopias – especially those driven by young people are deeply influenced a new attention towards plurality differe...

An element shared by sociology and history, and to a certain extent by social or cultural anthropology as well, is their claim to study society as a whole. Whereas economy, law, political science, religious studies or linguistics concentrate on a single aspect of society, the aforementioned disciplines aspire to integrate all aspects into a comprehensive and coherent picture. This requires, fir...