Political and social consequences of the emergence of the new middle class in Iran during the Second Pahlavi era

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saeed  jahangiri ¹ (Ph.D. student of political science - Iran's affairs Science and Research Branch of Tehran)
Abolghasem  Taheri ² (Professor, department of political science, Faculty of law and political science, science and research branch, Islamic azad university, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2018-06-19 Accepted : 2018-08-03 Published : 2018-06-22

Keywords: political development, : modernization, political instability, new middle class, second pillar,

Abstract :

The present article deals with the concept of the new middle class and how it develops and functions at the time of the second Pahlavi years. It can be said that the new middle class, in parallel with its growth, could not find a very high status in political and social participation, and therefore, contrary to what the government had before, became a government against it. In this regard, different perspectives on the concept of the middle class and the new middle class are presented, and then its historical expansion process is explained in the period under discussion of this paper. The research method used in this article is descriptive-analytic and has been discussed from the angles of this issue. This article attempts to use the concepts and topics in sociology and political sciences about social classes to explain the historical changes of the period under discussion. Accordingly, the fundamental question of the present research is how does the new middle class play a role in the political development of Iran during the Pahlavi era Second has Based on this hypothesis, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's strategic mistakes led to a decline in political development in the growth of the new middle class and the failure to meet their basic qualitative and traditional demands and the new middle class coalition.