scientific journal Political Sociology of the Islamic Revolution

Identity Theories and Citizenship in Era of Islamic Republic of Iran: A social construction Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Seyed Sadegh Haghighat 1
Mohammad Hossein Norouzi 2

1 Member of the faculty of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute

2 Abstract:

Abstract
Citizenship, as the right of human civil agency, is considered the most fundamental cognitive component and method of governance in the current period. In such a way that one cannot talk about democracy without considering citizenship. For this reason, the quality of citizenship and efforts to support and develop it, as well as increasing the bond between citizens and the government, are considered one of the most important criteria in evaluating the quality of governance in countries. Looking at the importance of the citizenship issue in the governance mechanism of the modern era, the following article tries to examine the relationship between identity theories and the issue of citizenship in the era of the Islamic Republic of Iran from a Social Constructionist perspective. The assumption of the article is that the issue of citizenship in the age of the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be realized without considering identity theories, meaning and possibility,and the issues and challenges facing it cannot be identified independently of the relations of identity currents. The results of the research also acknowledge that the issue of citizenship and its development, on the one hand, lies in the context of the relations of identity sources in Iran, and on the other hand, it depends on rethinking the two components of agency and individuality, and thirdly, that each of the identity theories According to their epistemological framework, they have presented a different reading of the issue of identity, and this provides different possibilities in relation to the

Keywords

identity
citizenship
Social constructionism
Islamic Republic of Iran
Ahmadi, hamid (2009). Iranian National Identity Foundations, Tehran: Institute for Cultural, Social and Civilization Studies Publications [in Persian].
Berger, Peter L. and Berger, Brigitte and Kellner, Hansfried (2019). The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness, Translated by Mohammad Savoji, Tehran: Ney Publications [in Persian].
Berger, Peter L. and Kellner, Hansfried (1981). Sociology reinterpreted: An essay on method and vocation. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Press/Doubleday.
Burr, Vivien (2019), Social Constructionism, Translated by Ashkan Salehi, Tehran: Ney Publications [in Persian].
Isa Nia, Reza (2015), The Islamic Republic of Iran and Citizenship: Basics and Principles, Tehran: Islamic Science and Culture Academy Publications [in Persian].
Kivisto, Peter and Faist, Thomas (2019), Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects, Translated by Mohsen Niazi and Vali Bahrami, Tehran: Gol Azin Publications [in Persian].
Lotfi, Tawakkul (2020), challenges and obstacles of citizenship rights by analyzing and presenting an applied model in Iranian society, Tehran: Ostad Shahryar Publications [in Persian].
Malekian, Mostafa (2006), "Static Identity, Dynamic Identity", taken from Sada net [in Persian]. https://3danet.ir/static-and-dynamic-identity/
Pourazim, Masoumeh (2017). Examining the Problems of Citizenship in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, Tehran: Golchin Adeb Publications [in Persian].
Rajaee, Farhang (2016 A). The Problemarique of the Contemporary Iranian Identity, Tehran: Ney Publications [in Persian].
Rajaee, Farhang (2016 B). Acting in the Garden of Iranian Identity; Hafiz's Role Model, The virtual version of Fidibo, Tehran: Ney Publications [in Persian].
Rajaee, Farhang (March 14, 2022). Identity is not changeable or fluid in any way, Farheekhtegan newspaper [in Persian]. http://fdn.ir/70664
Shaygan, Dariush (1999), the West against Asia, Tehran: Amirkabir Publications Institute [in Persian].
Shaygan, Dariush (2001), new disenchantment, forty-piece identity and mobile thinking, translated by Fatemeh Valiani, Tehran: Farzan Rooz publishing and research [in Persian].
Shaygan, Dariush. (May 28, 2018). "A letter to future generations", translated by Kamran Fani, Ettela'at newspaper  [in Persian]. https://www.ettelaat.com/mobile/archives/81930?device=phone
Tabatabaei, Seyyed Javad (1993), "The Round Table of Identity Crisis: Inside Contemporary Crises", Nameh Farhang Journal, 9(1), 8-27 [in Persian].
Tabatabai, Seyyed Javad (1995), Ibn Khaldun and Social Sciences, Tehran: Tarhe no Publications [in Persian].
Tabatabai, Seyyed Javad (2015), "Defending the "Comprehensive History of Iran" is protecting the national identity", Iran Book Agency (IBNA) [in Persian]. https://www. bna.ir/vdchmxniw23niwd.tft2.html
Tabatabai, Seyyed Javad (October 5, 2017), "Iran as Iranshahr", Etemad newspaper [in Persian]. https://www.etemadnewspaper.ir/fa/main/detail/88068
Tabatabai, Seyyed Javad (2021), Nation, State and the rule of law, Tehran: Minoye Kherad Publications.
scientific journal Political Sociology of the Islamic Revolution
Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 18
Summer 2024
Pages 251-273

Home

Guide for Authors

Submit Manuscript

Reviewers

Contact Us