Abstract
Any explanation of the ideology of the Iranian revolution is based on a worldview. The premise of this book is that any worldview can be associated with one of the four broad paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. This chapter takes the case of the ideology of the Iranian revolution and discusses it from the four different viewpoints. It emphasizes that the four views expressed are equally scientific and informative; they look at the phenomenon from their certain paradigmatic viewpoint; and together, they provide a more balanced and a more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon under consideration. In this chapter, Sects. 1, 2, 3, and 4 present the four perspectives, and Sect. 5 concludes the chapter.
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For this literature, see Algar (2001, 2013), Barber (1995), Bayat-Philipp (1981), Floor (1980), Griffith (1979), Hooglund and Royce (1985), Keddie (1981, 2003), Kedourie (1980), Khomeini (1981), Momen (1989), Rajaee (1983), Riesebrodt (1993), Rose (1983), Zonis and Brumberg (1987), and Zonis and Offer (1985). This section is based on Hooglund and Royce (1985).
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Ardalan, K. (2020). Ideology of Iranian Revolution: Four Paradigmatic Views. In: Understanding Revolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47591-8_7
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