An analytical look at the quality of life of the people of Khorasan during the Qajar era, according to the Iranian press, based on the archives of Astan Quds Razavi press.

Jahani, Jamileh; Bayati Bayat, Zahra

doi:10.22034/lrsi.2024.393905.1116

An analytical look at the quality of life of the people of Khorasan during the Qajar era, according to the Iranian press, based on the archives of Astan Quds Razavi press.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Jamileh Jahani ¹

Zahra Bayati Bayat ²

¹ Ph.D.Student of Information Science and Epistemology, Expert in organizing and preparing the press, Organization of Libraries, Museums and Documents Center of Astan Quds Razavi, Mashhad, Iran

² . M.A.in Iinformation Science and Epistemology, Expert in organizing and preparing the press, Organization of Libraries, Museums and Documents Center of Astan Quds Razavi, Mashhad, Iran

10.22034/lrsi.2024.393905.1116

Abstract

Quality of life is a historical product of cultural, social, economic and political systems and it cannot be explained separately from the above structures. Therefore, the concept of quality of life is a composite variable and its status depends on the level of development of societies. The Qajar era is the age of conflict over tradition and modernity. Confrontation with the new world and the West has had a significant impact on the intellectual and cultural developments of Iranian society in this period. In the meantime, the press, considering its long history in Iran as a written legacy left by the predecessors, is one of the valuable sources of information for understanding the cultural, political, social and economic situation of the Iranian society. Therefore, in this research, an attempt has been made to understand the prevailing atmosphere of popular thoughts in the Qajar period and to examine the press sources published at that time, most of these sources are available in the Astan Quds Razavi press archive, and to consider the components of the quality of life, the condition of the people Khorasan should be investigated by content analysis method. The findings of the research showed that the components of security and access to services have the highest frequency and the variables of transportation and housing have the lowest values.

Keywords

Quality of Life

Qajar

Khorasan

The Press

Astan Quds Razavi