BOOK REVIEW: “THE BASICS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY OF IRAN, THEORIC STRUCTURE OF CITIZEN-ORIENTED NATIONAL IDENTITY

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The subjects such as identity and national identity consider as important subjects of humanity science, social science and sociology, in most countries in the world. These subjects are most important in the contries like Iran, with a long history, a deep culture, and a several thousand civilization. Especially, during the last two decades, the interest of Iranian researchers became more to writing about identity and national identity, because of currency of subjects such as globalization and regional and international rapid changes, as a consequence these matters as current universal processes, effect on national identity of countries and have changed it a lot. One of the important consequences of these processes is the need of rethinking and reconstruction of national identity.

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