Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD Candidate of Political Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch
2 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch (corresponding author)
3 Professor of Sociology, Allameh Tabataba’i University
Abstract
The present study has been conducted with the aim of offering a sociological examination and explanation of the discourse of political identity in Iran after the revolution. Therefore, the concept of political identity has been the focus of the investigation, and its semantic transformations has first been studied in the macro semantic spectrum of the Islamic Revolution, and then in the two discourses of reformist and conservative parties in the framework of intra and inter-textual analysis according to discourse theory and using critical discourse analysis in six historically important and influential junctures during these years. Subsequently, as a way of extra-textual analysis, the historical, economic, political and cultural context of each period has been examined. Finally, this analysis and explanation have depicted a series of final typologies regarding the topic, mainly being: The desired political identity of the legal positivist liberal subject, the democratic anti-tyranny subject, the religious justice-seeking subject, the revolutionary obligation-centered subject, the populist anti-abuse subject, the moderate, justice-oriented critic subject.
Keywords
- Political identity
- Discourse
- Power
- Language
- Ideology
- man
- hegemony
- semantic pluralism
- rival thought
- politics
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