Designing a social identity pattern in Iran in the years of 1380-1397

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Graduated PHD in Sociology, Research Expert at the Vice President for Research, Islamic Revolution Comprehensive University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kashan, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Management, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran

Abstract

: Each person's social identity is formed within a community and based on what is important to that community. Many people have multiple social identities throughout their lives as societies change. The present study seeks to design a social identity pattern in Iran in the years of 1380 to 1397. The research method is meta-combination which is a qualitative approach and has been used to analyze the results of previous researches. Various articles were searched and research of instrument is studied from 1380 to 1397 based on related keywords. Finally, for sampling from the 240 research articles, 46 articles were completely reviewed. Analysis of research findings exhibited that social identity in Iran has four dimensions. Results showed that these dimensions were identity religious, national, ethnic and global, and each dimension of social identity had different components. As a result, the present study exhibit four dimensions of social identity and their components in the form of a pattern design.

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