Cultural Policy Making to Manage the Generational Gap in Contemporary Iran

After the World War II developing countries were growing rapidly and they experienced many social changes such as social movements. After these concrete structural changes, some abstract changes occurred within the deepest social layers and the changes in social status of the youth have resulted from such revolutions. Also the Iran has been affected by some of these changes such as population growth, urban residence development, and globalization and some outcomes of these important changes have led to generation gaps.
Thus, considering the gaps between generations in Iran and the policy making and management of it is highly important. Cultural policy making is among the most effective strategies to deal with the problem. Therefore, the researcher in this study has tried to propose some resolutions regarding the primary and secondary social growth contradiction theory posed by Berger and Lockman along with investigating the gap between generations in Iran within the framework of Cyclic Policy Making Model of Jones. The research method is descriptive-analytic and data collection through a library study. The findings of the study indicate that the manner of interaction among religion, government and family has a determining impact on decreasing or increasing the generation gap. Also, the expansion of urbanization, population growth and information and communication revolutions have led new generation to face a new world and made a change in their values, norms and cultures. The research results showed the presence of generation gap in Iran and the necessity of paying attention and policy making about that