khwaja nasīr al-dīn tūsī is accused, by many, of collaborating with the mongol invaders and legitimizing their domination (power). using the identity theory of manuel castells and discourse theory, the present essay hypothesizes that khwaja nasīr has tried to create iranian identity utilizing the archetypes of iranshahr and has founded a programmed identity that was later followed by other bure...

identity is one of the focal concepts and ideas for any human being. any kind of activity carried out by human is an attempt to gain identity which his weltanschauung-oriented ideals determine for him. contemplating the significance and inner nature of objects and actions can function as one of the most important creators of the identity of the individual, society, and the city. different faces...

Sam Shepard is one of the foremost living American Playwrights. He has always been concerned with the problem of identity, specifically the fragmented identity of man living in the postmodern era. Such characterization is evident in his plays: True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind. Thus, the present article is to demonstrate the fragmented identity of Lee and Austin, Eddie and May, an...

In this study, the impact of youth identity crisis is investigated on the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The research method is qualitative; the library method is used for data collection; and data analysis is carried out with descriptive-analytical method. The main research question is how does the identity crisis in youth affect the national security of the Islamic Republi...

Identity and collective memory is one of the fascinating subjects in modern sociology. In Iran, it arose again as modern and government-nation discourse emerged, and has been endlessly discussed since then. Such subjects have assumed an increasing importance due to the multi-cultural and multi-ethical existence of Iranian society and recent global developments. Accordingly, the present study ha...

This study investigates the relation between EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ autonomy, their identity styles, and their writing ability and it aims to show which independent variables have higher predicting power on variances in writing. To this end, 60 Iranian university EFL students at the language center of the researchers’ institution were selected to participate in this study...

Present society of Iran, with its young population structure specially after forming and developing modernism and its conflict with tradition as well as the voluminous, various, rapid dominance of mass media has been affected by value conflict whether in micro level of personality or macro level of internalization and turned to a society full of conformance, adaptation, alienation, identity con...

Gender identity disorder is an urgent sense of discomfort and inappropriateness of the sexual anatomy and urgent desire to get rid of genital organs and to live as a person of the opposite sex. The importance of studying gender identity disorder and its negative impact on the living conditions of suffering people, was laying the groundwork to do some research in terms of psychology and sociolog...

traditionally, the human being has been seeking to define and identify himself, his tribe, ethnic group and nation and also to discover his differentiation from others. the concept of identity was in fact a response to the questions “who” and “how” to be identified.. the present writing seeks to study the concept of identity in the political discourses of contemporary (1284- 1390) iran has been...