scientific journal Political Sociology of the Islamic Revolution

Feasibility study of Giddens's structuration theory in understanding Ayatollah Khamenei's political thought

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

محمدعلی نظری 1
mohamadreza mahmoud panahi 2

1 AZAD UN

2 tehran

Abstract
Understanding political phenomena has been one of the major concerns of activists, philosophers, and political scientists. They tried to create, innovate, integrate, or borrow a set of theories that could understand and explain political phenomena. One of the most famous figures who has played a role in contemporary political literature is Anthony Giddens. He tried to study social and political phenomena by using his structuration theory. This research tries to answer this question: What ability does Giddens' structuration theory have in understanding Ayatollah Khamenei's political thought? The findings show that structuration theory, by combining the theories of structuralism and voluntarism, focuses on the rethinking of human nature, and this theory allows researchers of political thought to explain political phenomena by understanding political and social conditions and paying attention to individual will and rethinking. Ayatollah Khamenei's political thought, as the leader of the Islamic Republic, relies on the institutional structures of the Islamic Revolution and the Constitution on the one hand, and on the other hand, emphasizes the role of the people, youth, and elites in change and progress. This feature makes Giddens's structuration theory framework a suitable tool for understanding this thought.

Keywords

Giddens
structuration
understanding political thought
Ayatollah Khamenei

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