The process of building national cohesion in Iran: a historical-sociological approach

The aim of this study is to provide an objective and sociological understanding of the development of national cohesion in Iran using the sociological concepts of Durkheim (mechanical and organic correlation) and David Lockwood (social integration and system integration). Using these concepts, the present article tries to show that national social cohesion is not a natural and pre-existing thing, but an industrial thing that is built on the horizon of the future. In historical experience, we see social and state-building trends in the field of national cohesion. This process has dialectically contributed to the development of national cohesion. To move from this controversial process and establish a stable relationship between social and systemic integration, we need the convergence of the rules governing social and systemic integration