Epistemology of Modern State Ideology and Social Utopias under Pahlavi

Epistemology of Modern State Ideology and Social Utopias under Pahlavi

Volume 10, Issue 2
July 2019

Pages 78-106

Document Type : Original Research

Abstract

this paper tries to explain the relations between ideology of modern state and the Iranian society utopias under era of Pahlavi regime and attempts to use the views of social and political scientists to analyze the ideological nature of the Pahlavi government for social change. Article shows that what was the main cause of social resistance and “antagonism” in Iranian society against the demands of the Pahlavi government? The sociology of knowledge which is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context is the methodology of this paper and the present paper uses a descriptive and analytical method of the “Migdal” theory of “weak state”, social control theories, and social change views as well as Carl Mannheim's views to assess the relationship between government and society in Iran. The main idea of the paper is that, since the ruling ideology did not respond to the Utopia of the “weblike” community, the ideological government and the Utopian weblike society in Iran failed to come together and eventually enter into a pattern of contradictory embedding.

Keywords

Modern state

Weblike Society

Ideology

Utopia

Social Control

Subjects

Political Science

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