عنوان

Science, Medicine, And Class In The Formation Of Semi - Colonial Iran 1900s- 1940s

Number

42588

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Science, Medicine, And Class In The Formation Of Semi - Colonial Iran 1900s- 1940s

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

;advisor: Sybille Kindlimann

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

: 2004

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

‭III, 556p.‬

Text of Note

UMI Microform 3115382

Text of Note

Bibliography

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D

Body granting the degree

, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York

Text of Note

This dissertation argues that science constituted a key discursive and practical framework for the formation of modern Iranian society. From the 1910s on, an Iranian modern middle class emerged at the interstices between a modernizing local society and colonial configurations of modern cultural capital centered on the use of modern science. It framed modern science as a base for its distinct higher modern education and 'mode of life', setting itself apart from local social groups and foreigners. However, cltural capital was not sufficient for class formation. It was only because a strong state administration, together with a growing urban population, boosted the public / private market for modern professions like medicine, nursing, law, pedagogy, engineering, that the modernists could transform their cultural into economic capital and stabilize their position.

Sociology, Medical - Iran - Dissertations

Social Change - Iran - Dissertations

Social Class - Iran - Dissertations

جامعه شناسی پزشکی - ایران - پایان نامه ها

Schayegh, Cyrus

Abrahamian, Ervand, 1940-, ابراهامیان ،ارواند

Kindlimann, Sybille, Consultor

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