ali eskandari naddaf; hamid parsania
Volume 9, Issue 2 , September 2021
Abstract
In the framework of "Sociology of Sociology", this article is dedicated to the study of Iranian sociologists' self-criticism about the situation of sociology in Iran. To do this, using ...
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In the framework of "Sociology of Sociology", this article is dedicated to the study of Iranian sociologists' self-criticism about the situation of sociology in Iran. To do this, using Merton's idea, sociology in Iran has been identified as a "scientific community", and the data of this study has been collected by referring to the views and opinions of Iranian sociologists. In this research, the method of summative qualitative analysis is used to analyze the internal self-criticism of the texts. The results show that the lack of problem-oriented, positivism-oriented, lack of theoretical framework, lack of biologists in Iran and irrelevant to civil society and the negligence of social scientists by Iranian sociologists have been introduced as the main problems of this science in Iran. . Some also consider the lack of independence, freedom and non-nativeness as other problems of this science in Iran. This article, referring to Turner's analytical model of the sociological situation in the United States, shows that these characteristics became the normative dimension of any activity in the sociological scientific community in Iran, and overcoming these normative conditions requires reconnection of the sociological scientific community. In Iran with a special kind of life of Iranian society and participation in social reform programs.