Social stability of youth in the discourse of ethnic and national identities in the Iran-Iraq war

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Abbas Yousefi Sheikh Rabat ¹ , Ali Hossein Hosseinzadeh ² , Hossein Karimi Fard ³ , Fereydoun Akbarzadeh ⁴

1 - Ph.D. student of political science, Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran. Professor of Sociology Department, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2023-02-15 Accepted : 2023-03-02 Published : 2022-07-01

Keywords: Social sustainability, solidarity, social distance, Identity discourse,

Abstract :

The discussion of the status of national identity along with ethnic identities in the country and the connections between them has always been discussed by experts in the fields of social sciences. Some consider the situation to be in crisis and some consider it to be a minimal crisis. On the other hand, the Islamic Republic of Iran has always sought to form a religious-political identity even beyond the national borders. This approach requires the best discourse of ethnic identities. This article, which is the result of a research at the level of five Iranian ethnicities, i.e. Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Baloch and Persians, and seeks to measure the components of this ethnic discourse among five Iranian ethnicities. This research is considered to be applied and quantitative in terms of method. The statistical population of the research is 150 people from five ethnicities: Arabs, Turks, Baloch, Persians and Kurds. The results of this research showed that all the ethnic groups present in Iran were at high levels of solidarity during the Iran-Iraq war, although the Azeri ethnicity had more solidarity.