The Incomplete Project of Civil Society in Iran

It has been a while since such terminology as civil society has become common and its application has permeated through the realm of the press as well as social communities from the realm of theoretical university discussions. The amazing point is that the background for its formation throughout the contemporary history of Iran has been faced with tough obstacles and has even reinforced its implacability with developing history in a way that today the Iranian society is having a hard time establishing a civil society. This paper aims to study the pathology of the formation of a civil society in contemporary Iran. After giving a specific definition for civil society and dividing it into pre- and post-modernism, this paper attends to the Iranian structure. Then, mentioning the gravest obstacles on the way to reach and develop a civil society in Iran, the existing opportunities and bases on the way to develop a civil society have been discussed.

کلیدواژه ها:

: Civil society ، Iran ، modernist ، ruling ideology