عنوان

Class and Politics in Post-Revolution Iran: Descriptive and Substantive Justice

Number

TL49804

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Class and Politics in Post-Revolution Iran: Descriptive and Substantive Justice

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ali Dadgar

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Nakhaie, Reza

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Windsor (Canada)

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

284

Text of Note

Committee members: Adam, Barry; Azadarmaki, Taghi; Cheran, Rudhramoorthy; Mahdavi, Mojtaba; Najem, Tom

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-65469-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

SOCIOLOGY

Body granting the degree

University of Windsor (Canada)

Text preceding or following the note

2018

Text of Note

Iranian society has undergone significant transformations since the 1962 Land Reform and the modernization plans implemented by its different governments. These transformations include industrialization, bureaucratization, population explosion, rural-urban migration, increase in the size of the working class, massive entry of women into the labor force, and the subsequent 1979 Islamic Revolution. Since the Revolution, the class structure and the composition of Iran's political elites have changed significantly. Previous research has been particularly less attentive to the relationship between the structure of classes in Iran and the demographic composition of elected members of parliament (MPs). This study aims to enhance previous research by studying the nature and extent of representativeness of members of the Iranian parliament since the Revolution. Special attention will be paid to the descriptive representation of MPs by calculating the index of dissimilarity. Utilizing data on the occupational distribution of the general population and parliamentarians, this study will identify social class representativeness of MPs in each of the ten parliamentarian elections from 1980 to 2016. It employs a mixed methodology placing emphasis on the demographic (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.) and socioeconomic (education and occupation) dimensions of political representation. Using various theoretical models, it will test the extent to which each of the liberal-pluralist, instrumentalist and structuralist Marxists, or cultural reproduction theoretical approaches fit the evidence. The current study finds that educational credential, as a measure of credentialized cultural capital, is an important predictor of being elected as a member of parliament in Iran, supporting the cultural reproduction theory. Evidence also supports Marxist theory in that working class is underrepresented in the Majles, and that education itself is class-based. Finally, this study observes strong representation of professional and managerial class among the parliamentarians which lends support to liberal-pluralist theory.

Middle Eastern history; Sociology

Subject Term

Social sciences;1962 Land Reform;Iran;Islamic Revolution

Johnson, Rebecca

Nakhaie, Reza

Subdivision

SOCIOLOGY

University of Windsor (Canada)

Call Number

2019660402; 10745466

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[Thesis]

276903

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