The Political And Economic Origins Of Social Crises In Iran (1991-2011)

Subject Areas : Social Evolutions

Seyed Iman Qorbani ¹ , Tahmoras Shiri ² , Sara Mohamadpour ³

1 - Department of Political Sociology, CT.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Political Sociology, CT.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of Social Communication, WT.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2023-01-31 Accepted : 2023-09-05 Published : 2025-06-26

Keywords: Political And Social Protests, Social Unrest, 1370s–1390s SH (1991-2011), Social Justice Realization, Economic Demands.,

Abstract :

Political and social protests in the recent decades in Iran were brought to the policymakers’ attention. The importance of surveying the origins of these events was in making ground for reduction of happening of unrest in Iran. This research aims to search in origin of political and social protests in Iran, and intends to answer the question that which social factors did play a role in comparative – sociological specifying of civil ptotests in two recent decades. With this hypothesis that difference between legitimate expectations and realities of the external world in the society, and lack of attention to value and political changes, together with economic demands and stablishing equality and social justice, were the most important origins of political and social protests in the last two decades, this research surveyed the genesis and origins of occurance of the triple events by quantitative and comparative method with a focus on relative deprivation theory, especially the ideas of Ted Robert Gurr as the base theory as well as theories of social alienation. It was found that the difference between the legitimate expectations and the realities of the outside world and lack of attention to value and political changes along with economic demands and creation of equality and social justice were the main sources of political and social protests in the past two decades in Iran.