Study of Social Capital and Social Welfare in Nation-State Relationship in Modern Iran

Abstract

Nation-state relationship is an important issue in modern world of today; this can be investigated in modern history of Iran too. In this direction, this article focuses on measuring nation-state relationship in the framework of social capital and social welfare concepts and it has been interactively scrutinized by conceptual means of “confidence” at social level (horizontal) and political level (vertical). This is necessary to be done because social capital and inclinations and social attitudes seriously affect development; therefore, how social welfare and capital affects transformations of nation-state relationship in Iran is being studied. The main question focuses on the social capital situation in modern Iran that “how does it affect formation of nation-state relationship”? The hypothesis is formed based on scrutiny of political and social relationships in structural status of Iran, which can cover both previous and recent gaps between nation-state principles and involve probable approach for their renewal. This paper has been processed in historical and qualitative methodology and by applying dialectic approach where basic changes at social and political levels of modern history of Iran have undergone relative perpetuation and social capital stands at critical state.

Keywords

• State
• Nation
• Social Capital
• Confidence
• Social Welfare
• Social Structure
• Political Structure