DISCURSIVE CONCEPTUALIZING OF STUDENT MOVEMENT IN IRAN (CASE STUDY: OFFICE FOR STRENGTHENING UNITY)

The objective of the paper is to conceptualizing and discursive periodization of Office for Strengthening Unity since its establishment، based on Foucauldian discourse theories and conceptions like archaeology and genealogy، using discourse analysis for understanding tradition and modernity. Furthermore، the aim of this paper is، by clarifying discursive characteristics of every period، in terms of its relevance to tradition-modernity discourse، to show discursive formation of different periods and their thresholds. Then، by applying Foucauldian archaeology and his methodological strategies، one determined propositions (influential verbal and nonverbal actions) as population and purposed sampling as sampling method that continued until no new data appear. Findings showed that one can distinct five periods including: “Evolution from religious intellectualism to pure Islam discourse”; “reproduction of pure Islam discourse”; “evolution from pure Islam discourse to religious intellectualism”; and “evolution from religious intellectualism to modern discourse and intensifying of discursive scattering points” and “formation and deepening of two conflicting discourses (modern discourse and pure Islam discourse”.