Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Associate Professor, Sociology Dept., Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural sociology, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Professor, Regional Development Planning Dept., Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The abundance of research on automobile studies, the dispersion of results, the interdisciplinary nature of the relationship between the automobile as a new technological artifact and the various dimensions of the social system, reveal the necessity of critical reading of relevant articles to achieve the adequacy and deficiencies of studies with consideration to the theoretical approaches of the sociology of technology. The aim of the research is to describe the dimensions of domestic automobile-related studies in the fields of social sciences and art from 2003 to 2024 in terms of multiple components. 26 related articles were selected from 893 articles indexed in Iranian scientific databases based on inclusion criteria. The selected articled were explored under matrix and thematic analysis methods. According to the results, many articles were written under the requirements of the survey approach and secondary data analysis either in data gathering or data investigation. Playing with a set of urban police-oriented variables as independent and dependent variables was a common featue of the explored articles. In addition, in a very limited number of articles, the formulation of the automobile issue in Iran has been explored from the perspective of environmental, psycho-health, social, cultural, and political considerations, ignoring recent theoretical perspectives in technology studies such as the actor-network and, conversely, being limited to pathological orientations, under the paradigm of technological determinism. Furthermore, the lack of attention to the requirements of the qualitative research paradigm is considered as the most central omission of existing studies in terms of methodology.
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