نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
دکتری جامعه شناسی و دانش آموخته جامعه المصطفی، قم، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
Extended Abstract
Introduction and Objectives: National cohesion and social integration have long been recognized as fundamental pillars of stability, resilience, and the legitimacy of political systems. In Iranian society, the components of national commitment have always possessed particular complexities, given divergent attitudes toward social justice and perceptions of discrimination. However, the outbreak of a twelve-day hybrid and technological war in June 2025 between Iran and Israel fundamentally altered the status of these components, generating an immense wave of spontaneous national solidarity across Iranian society. This experience—reminiscent of the eight-year Sacred Defense era—demonstrated that external conflicts possess a significant capacity to strengthen internal cohesion.
Nevertheless, the central concern is that solidarities arising from security crises, due to their emotional and situational nature, are prone to deterioration once emergency conditions subside, thereby exposing society to the risk of reverting to previous divisions in the post-war era. Consequently, managing cohesion in conflict-affected societies requires robust governance frameworks and instruments capable of transforming situational solidarity into institutionalized and sustainable cohesion. In this regard, policymaking tools such as national development plan laws play a pivotal role. The primary objective of this study is to analyze the capacities and shortcomings of the “Seventh Five-Year Progress Plan Law of the Islamic Republic of Iran” in sustaining and institutionalizing social cohesion during the sensitive post-war period following the 12-day conflict. This assessment seeks to determine whether this macro-policy document possesses the capacity to transition emotional solidarity into continuous, organic cohesion, or whether it requires a fundamental redesign in the policymaking domain. To investigate this matter, an integrated theoretical framework drawing upon the ideas of Allameh Tabatabai and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Shahabadi has been employed.
Methodology: In terms of overall orientation, this study falls within the category of developmental-applied research and, from a scientific paradigm perspective, is situated within the framework of qualitative and interpretive inquiry. The central strategy employed in this research was “Thematic Analysis,” utilizing an approach oriented toward producing a schematic model within a thematic network. The statistical population comprised the approved text of the Seventh Five-Year Progress Plan Law of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the scope of analysis centrally focused on the cultural and social chapters (Chapters 15 to 18). In this process, each article, clause, component, and legal note within these chapters was defined as a “recording unit” containing the necessary semantic implications to address the research problem.
The data analysis process was conducted through a three-stage deductive procedure. In the first stage, key concepts extracted from the theoretical framework—including Morabeteh (institutionalized connection), the Thread of Brotherhood (Kheit-e Okhovvat), the Four Namous (core principles/honors), the Policy of Eddeh and Oddeh (human resources and logistical preparedness), and Etebariyat (conventional perceptions)—were established as theoretical codes and initial analytical headings. In the second step, the legal text was systematically examined, and provisions aligned with the theoretical concepts were extracted. Subsequently, these provisions were categorized based on thematic proximity to form organizing themes. In the third stage, overarching themes were deduced, and the thematic network was subjected to comparative analysis to reveal policy gaps. To ensure scientific quality and validation, Lincoln and Guba’s four criteria and the peer debriefing technique were applied; the coding process was verified by a nine-member expert panel comprising specialists in sociology, political science, Islamic studies, law, and economics.
Results: The systematic analysis of the cultural and social chapters of the Seventh Progress Plan Law resulted in the extraction of 55 basic themes, 20 organizing themes, and 7 overarching themes. These were organized into two primary networks: “Levels of Cohesion Realization” and “Cohesion-Consolidating Systems.” The first network indicates that cohesion comprises three tiered and intertwined levels. At the micro-level, the emphasis is on reforming conventional perceptions, transitioning from egoism to altruism, promoting health, and safeguarding innate human nature (Fitrah) and perceptual boundaries. At the meso-level, the objective is to objectify the Thread of Brotherhood in opposition to state monopolization, pursued through religious institutionalization (such as the independence of mosques), the realization of Mosabareh (collective perseverance), and the enhancement of social capacity in vulnerable environments. At the macro-level, the ultimate policymaking goal is the transformation of numerical multiplicity into typological unity; this level seeks structural Morabeteh, adherence to the Thread of Velayat (guardianship), mythologizing veterans to revive the principle of dignity, and safeguarding the sacred domain of Islam to establish boundaries with foreign entities.
The second network encompasses four functional consolidating systems. The family system bears the mission of multiplying human resources (Eddeh), protecting the family structure, and safeguarding the principle of intimacy by preventing social harms and facilitating marriage. The cultural and communication system is responsible for perceptual border-guarding, governance of cyberspace, and nourishing the collective soul through premium media productions. The economic system aims to objectify the principle of assistance and secure society’s logistical preparedness (Oddeh) while curbing the rise of poverty by focusing on tourism and handicraft development, as well as resource distribution in underprivileged neighborhoods. The political and security system pursues the safeguarding of physical security and the establishment of justice by protecting identity borders and smartly sealing physical boundaries, alongside developing social emergency services to heal vulnerable classes. The intersection of these structural and functional dimensions forms the matrix of the network architecture of cohesion for the post-war period.
Discussion and Conclusion: The findings demonstrate that the Seventh Progress Plan Law possesses considerable capacity and a coherent structural logic for institutionalizing social cohesion and advancing the transition from Mosabareh (situational solidarity in crisis) to Morabeteh (sustainable cohesion). Nevertheless, when confronted with post-war conditions and the volatilities of cognitive warfare, this law faces four categories of shortcomings that risk eroding the spontaneous solidarity generated.
First is the temporal-processual shortcoming; the law was drafted for periods of stability, heavily relying on long-term solutions, and lacks rapid cognitive response mechanisms in the face of enemy psychological warfare. Second is the institutional-structural shortcoming, which, due to a top-down approach and intense state monopolization over local institutions—exemplified by the reduction of mosques to government cultural contractors—prevents the formation of sustainable, faith-based solidarity. Third is the content-functional shortcoming; poverty alleviation programs are restricted to targeted bureaucratic support, which diminishes intergroup trust. Additionally, the perspective on the family is predominantly biological, neglecting essential livelihood support, and the subjective dimensions of cohesion are significantly overshadowed by physical dimensions. Fourth is the strategic-security shortcoming, manifested in a negative and restrictive approach to security that lacks a proactive model for grassroots security networking.
To overcome these challenges, several recommendations are proposed: (1) establishing a cognitive engineering headquarters equipped with a rapid cognitive response mechanism to provide necessary media annexes for national projects; (2) deploying a grassroots crisis management system centered around independent local institutions; (3) shifting the economic approach from bureaucratic subsidies to an “Economy of Brotherhood” and local cooperative models, combined with sustainable livelihood support for families; and (4) redesigning security policy toward grassroots networking—with the participation of local networks and mosques—to transform military authority into continuous national pride.
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