Studying the occurrence of Iran's constitutional revolution by historical-adaptive method

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 assistant professor of history and sociology,university of mohaghegh ardabili

2 Ph.D. student of Cultural Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Communication and Media, Arad Islamic University, Tehran markazi

3 Ph.D. student of political Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, ghom, Iran. 0009-000798067949

4 PhD student in history, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. 0000-0002-2213-2616

10.22098/cpa.2024.14346.1028

Abstract

Context and Purpose: Revolution is a macro concept and a function of structural-functional factors. The constitutional revolution is, before anything else, a socio-cultural concept that has represented itself in the historical process. The main goal of the research is to study the occurrence of Iran's constitutional revolution from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical field. The current research, by referring to historical works, seeks to understand the historical-sociological roots of the constitutional revolution.
Methodology: The historical research method was the historical data (articles, authored book, translation).
Findings: the results show that cultural factors (mass media, writing industry, modernization of cultural institutions, the emergence of cultural-educational institutions, the collapse of Farah Yazidi Shah); social (social capital, demographic changes, social hangout, social anomie, social corruption, social dissatisfaction); Psychological (radicalization of psychological anomie society, psychological modernization); economic (economic anomie, structural class gap), political (nation-state gap, political structure crisis, political modernization, political anomie and royal tyranny) in the emergence of the constitutional revolution and its occurrence in Iranian society based on the theory of socio-cultural-political field and Bourdieu's psychology has had an impact.
Conclusion: In general, this revolution has happened culturally under the influence of (individual) agency and socially under the influence of (macro) structure centered on law and political-cultural order.

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