2020/01/01 by Behrouz Alikhani, Alikhani, Behrouz
Social Sciences · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Constitutional Revolution #Iran #Islamic Studies and History #Qajar dynasty #process sociology #processes of habitus formation #processes of nation-state building #survival unit
paper · pdf · doi:10.12759/hsr.45.2020.1.42-64
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Processes of state building in Iran have been accompanied by various breaches and discontinuities with consequences for the formation of the social habitus of a great number of Iranians. A proper understanding of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran in 1906 is only possible by the introduction of a relatively long-term perspective on such processes. In this paper, the extensive historiography on the time around the Constitutional Revolution in 1906 will be integrated in a process sociological framework to provide a broader and a more reality-congruent picture of this very important phase of the development of the Iranian state, society, and social habitus. Such a study not only serves to understand the processes of habitus and collective identity formation of a great number of Iranians in the 19th and early 20th century, but also could contribute to a better understanding of the complex present political and social development of this country.