Journal of Business & Financial Affairs

Cultural Citizenship in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Abstract

Tavana MA*

Iran is a multicultural country including various groups of ethnic, lingual, religious and else. What is solution Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran to organize this sociocultural diversity? To answer to this question we used the method of conforming theory with sample. The study uses cultural citizenship theories as a theoretical framework to analyze the solution of the Constitution of IRI. The most important finding of this study is: the Constitution of IRI has a two-layer solution for the issue of sociocultural diversity; in the beneath layer lays concentrated cultural policy which in turn is the result of domination of Islamic, Shiite, Persian, and patriarchal culture; in the layer above lays a combination of politics of wide recognition (especially in the area of language and ethnic); and politics of narrow recognition (especially in the areas of religion, women, and vulnerable social groups).