The school of positivism in the period of Mohammad Reza Shah

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of History, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran

2 Department of History, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran (Corresponding Author)

3 Department of History, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

4 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

10.30510/psi.2022.324856.2958

Abstract

Historiography is one of the most important contexts for the presence and manifestation of cultural nationalism and history has played a key role in the formation of the nation-state. In the age of the nation-state, a utilitarian view of history became important to governments through the writing and teaching of history. Most of the works that have studied contemporary Iran, have found modern Iran in the contrast of traditional and modern cultures have fallen into the trap of mere theory of tradition and modernism. Other few works that have discussed ideas in the form of left-wing or religious and liberal currents of thought have mostly studied the political arena or the so-called political manifestation of those currents in the form of political parties and organizations and have left their etymology. . The secularization of social systems and education is one of the pests of positivist logic that leads to many individual and social problems in Islamic society. The school of positivism has emerged prominently in Iranian nationalist historiography. Most of the histories written in the Pahlavi period carried the concept that achieving the development and modernization of society according to Western models is everyone's aspiration and this aspiration has been made possible by the adequacy of Reza Shah and then his son. Numerous writers were under this tendency and thought.

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Political Sociology of Iran
Volume 5, Issue 11
January 2023
Pages 1212-1228

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