Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract The main goal of this article is to study how Iranian society crossed from the millennium utopian ideas towards liberal utopian ideas. The ideas which helped form the sociology of the Constitutional Revolution. To this end, we reviewed four types of Karl Mannheim's ideals, which are about the formation of a new utopia from the late middle ages to the new and modern era. The research data was obtained from the Iranian’s itineraries from their trips to the European countries. The results were analyzed using the phenomenology approach. They indicate that the Qajarid’s itineraries to Europe have the elements of a new and liberal utopia and played a role opposed ideologically to that era’s social structures. Such ideas and works could lay a foundation for the new utopia by laying aside the Babieh millennium utopia and introducing the European utopia to the Iranian society. The utopia was based on a new understanding of Iranian society from the progress and development concepts and prepared their sociological and insightful minds for the formation of the Constitutional era.

Abstract This article is about the notion of ideology in Gabriel Tarde’s sociology. In 19th century, inspired by the Leibnitz’s philosophy, Tarde pursued his project in comparison with Emil Durkheim’s sociology. Bruno Latour calls Tardean sociology as the sociology of transmission. This concept shows how that kind of sociology can challenge the dominant social and political ideology. Regarding the late sociology, it is important to study his thoughts. To understand the social agent, he proposes three terms: imitation, opposition and adaptation. For Tarde, the mentioned agent with his innovation can generate new social currents- the innovation develops through imitation process and becomes a socio-cultural phenomenon. Therefore, there is a changeable process in everyday life which starts with the smallest social elements and challenges the dominant ideology.

Abstract The purpose of present paper is to investigation about Freud's ideas on subjectivity and it’s relation to ideological subject of Althusser. At first, Freud, as a social philosopher, will be scrutinized and then his view will be compared to Althusser's opinion on subject. Ego, in Freud's thought can be interpreted as subject in sociological and philosophical debates. Subject (or Ego), in psychoanalytic view, through defense mechanisms, distorts the reality and the imaginary, and assumes his/herself as an autonomous subject. In this way Althusserian view on subject shows that subject, in imaginary way, assumes his/herself as an autonomous actor. Only under interpellation of ideology the subject can be a language-user subject. This process occurs at an unconsciousness level. Reviewing sociological aspects of Freud’s works on subject, we will show that ego defense mechanisms have characteristics, which ideology uses to distort the reality.