Ranking’s Rate of Coherence for Employed Postgraduates’ Students to Post-academic Norms based on Field of Study's Paradigms by TOPSIS’s Method

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Akbar Zolfaghari ¹ (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran)
Mohsen Niazi ² (Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran)
Elham Shafaiei Moghadam ³ (Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kashan University, Kashan)

Received: 2023-08-09 Accepted : 2023-10-17 Published : 2023-03-01

Keywords: Norms, Post-academic, Knowledge’ s Economy, Field of Study’ s Paradigms and TOPSIS,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate the ranking of coherence’s rate for the employed postgraduate’s students in the fourfold field of study’s paradigms than to the economic norms based on the knowledge and or the post-academic norms. The TOPSIS’s method has been used. Based on capabilities of fourfold decision-making methods for achieving to above aim. The scope of study is the public universities in Isfahan Province. Based on the results of first stage, the plan of leveling and ranking of Iranian Public Universities were chosen by the Ministry of Sciences, Researches and Technology at Kashan University, Honare Isfahan University and Isfahan University in three levels of Jameh (comprehensive) and the specialized universities for investigating the subject of research and was achieved. Based on the sample’s size by using Sample Power Software, 320 students were studied in the form of the suitable Quotas sampling by the questionnaire’s technique. Based on the results of research, the rate’s ranking of the student’s coherence the post-academic norms are in the fourfold field of study’s paradigms are hard- pure, applied- hard, soft-pure and soft- applied paradigms orderly.