A Study on status and discourse analysis of social theorizations from a desirable family pattern in Iran

one of the objects and achievements of the theorization in the context of family social studies has always been pattern-making from this fundamental institution of society. Such theorizations are usually arisen from a particular discourse. Hence, there is an epistemological mutuality between a family pattern, as the theory’s consequence, and a particular discourse. In conjunction with reviewing and classifying the existing literature through the application of the discourse analysis method, this paper tries to represent civil-modern and Iranian-Islamic family patterns, which are two dominant spectrums of theorization for social studies of family. Overall, it seems that, despite of having some positive features in the civil-modern pattern, the Iranian-Islamic pattern has more potential advantages.