A Sociological Study of Authoritarianism in Qajar Era
الموضوعات : مجله بین المللی علوم اجتماعیMasoumeh Motlaq 1 , Ako Ahmadnezhad 2
1 - Department of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Iran
2 - Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
الکلمات المفتاحية: authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, power, legitimacy,
ملخص المقالة :
The present study aimed to answer the question that Qajar government as a political system was anauthoritarian government? This study deals with the outcomes of Qajar Authoritarianism and the impact ofeffective historical-geographical conditions of Iran on emergence or continuance of Authoritarianism.Authoritarianism in this study is not a one-dimensional structure and it is composed of some elements asimposing violence, illegitimate governance and illegal issues. This study is document-historical design and allthe existing documents regarding study are study population. The present study is one of the applied studies inwhich the data are collected as note taking and the data are analyzed by qualitative method. The evaluation offactors in Authoritarianism of the study shows that Qajar era was Authoritarianism not totalitarian withnegative economic, political and social outcomes for the society on that era and for future generation. Based onthe results of study, we can say that these policies caused the collapse of this regime. This study showed that byreview of history, without any bias and prejudice of a specific movement, based on social sciences theories, wecan identify the reasons of occurrence of phenomenon and avoid its repetition in future (experiencing).
