Analysis of the Sociology Curriculum of the Second Year of High School in the Humanities Major Based on the Amount of Attention to the Components of the Islamic-Iranian Lifestyle Using the Shannon Entropy Information Approach

Karimi, Seyed Bahaadin; Armand, Mohamad

doi:10.30487/jcp.2026.547786.1844

Analysis of the Sociology Curriculum of the Second Year of High School in the Humanities Major Based on the Amount of Attention to the Components of the Islamic-Iranian Lifestyle Using the Shannon Entropy Information Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

seyed bahaadin karimi ¹

Mohamad Armand ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University

² Associate Professor, Curriculum Planning Department, Samt Humanities Research and Development Institute

10.30487/jcp.2026.547786.1844

Abstract

The research aimed to analyze the sociology curriculum of the second year of secondary school in the humanities field based on the level of attention to the components of the Islamic-Iranian lifestyle using the Shannon entropy information approach. The research method is quantitative and of the type of content analysis. The statistical population is the entire elements of the sociology curriculum of the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades in the humanities field, which were analyzed using the total count method of all elements, including objectives, content, teaching methods and evaluation. To conduct content analysis, an appropriate checklist was first prepared and provided to the curriculum professors and sociology teachers, and the indicators were changed and adjusted. After approval, the checklist was also approved by 6 experts in the field of curriculum studies and sociology. The Shannon entropy method was used for analysis. According to the analysis of data obtained from examining the importance coefficient and the rank of lifestyle in the elements of the sociology curriculum for the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades, the results indicate that in the analysis of the curriculum (goal, content, method, and evaluation) of sociology for the second secondary school, the nutrition index has the highest importance coefficient in the tenth grade with an importance coefficient of (0.214), in the eleventh grade with an importance coefficient of (0.262), and in the twelfth grade with an importance coefficient of. but the two indicators of leisure and Islamic-Iranian clothing have received less attention in all three grades.

Keywords

Analysis of Islamic-Iranian lifestyle

sociology

curriculum

secondary school and humanities

Subjects