Cultural Transformation and Its Impacts on Razavi Culture:  A Study Based on Grounded Theory

Rahbarqazi, Mahmoudreza; Sadeghi Naghdali, Zahra

doi:10.22034/farzv.2024.478131.2036

Cultural Transformation and Its Impacts on Razavi Culture: A Study Based on Grounded Theory

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mahmoudreza Rahbarqazi ¹

Zahra Sadeghi naghdali ²

¹ Department of Political Science, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

² Invited teacher Department of Political Science, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/farzv.2024.478131.2036

Abstract

Razavi Culture, rooted in the teachings of Imam Reza (A.S.) and the knowledge of the Ahl al-Bayt, is one of the most valuable aspects of Islamic and Shia culture, playing a crucial role in shaping the religious and social identity of Muslims, especially Shia. In this regard, this study aims to examine the causes and strategies behind the distancing from Razavi culture among some Iranian citizens and its consequences, analyzing the phenomenon from the perspective of cultural and religious theories. For this purpose, the qualitative method and Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory approach were employed. The necessary data were collected from in-depth interviews with 25 individuals from different groups in the city of Tabriz. The results of the research indicate that the focused codes for causal conditions include factors such as social transformation, the decline of institutional legitimacy, secularism discourse, and cultural colonization. In the section on contextual conditions, structural economic crises, cultural pluralism, the collapse of the epistemic system, and instability in the family education system were identified as key contexts. The intervening codes refer to the role of ideological conflicts, a rupture in epistemic mediation, the haste in global integration, and the consumerist information market. Finally, considering two strategies of acceptance and resistance by society, which were presented as individual reactions to this phenomenon, the consequences of distancing from Razavi culture manifested as a legitimacy crisis, nationalism and ethnocentrism, social-political divergence, decline in soft power, secularization of political discourse, collapse of normative order, identity vacuum, erosion of social solidarity, identity entropy, and disintegration of the educational structure.

Keywords

Razavi Culture

Religious Identity

Globalization

Iranian Society

Grounded Theory Method

Subjects

Promotion and deepening of Razavi culture and education

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