Historicity of Constitutional Movement: a Study of Relationship between Contemporary Iran's Social Developments and Constitutional Movement

This article discusses the two concepts of historicity and social life derived from the Constitutional Movement and seeks to figure out relationship between them and contemporary Iranian social developments. It claims that the Constitutional Movement has fundamentally affected contemporary social changes in Iran through the creation of historicity and a new social life. The approach used in this article is taken from social relations system (action system) and its method is based on historical sociology. Based on the analysis and explanation provided, the Constitutional Movement has affected the social life of people in three subjective, objective (action) and structural dimensions. Subjectively, national sovereignty was given to the people as the right of self-determination. In the objective dimension, individual and collective action areas were formed, and in the structural one, new institutional contexts were created .In fact, with the occurrence of the Constitutional Movement, the concept of the political was introduced in the Iranian society.