National Identity in Iranian Society and its Challenges and Problems: Systematic Review of Quantitative Scientific-Research Articles (1998-2019)

Iranian researchers in the field of quantitative studies have analyzed national identity in Iranian society and its challenges and problems using various analytical approaches. The present study tries to analyze the descriptive, methodological and analytical features and critical evaluation of scientific-research articles based on quantitative methods on the subject of national identity in Iranian society in the period 1998 to 2019 using a systematic review method and a complete and comprehensive picture of factors and variables affecting national identity in Iranian society and its challenges and problems in scientific-research articles based on quantitative methods and examine their shortcomings and shortcomings. The method of the present research is systematic review. The results of the research show that although the selected articles have had significant results and achievements and are applicable, nevertheless they are many gaps and shortcomings in the field of methodology such as reductionism and difficulty of comparability and in the field of analysis such as generalization versus partiality, reductionism versus holisticism, analytical reductionism of the challenges and problems of different dimensions of national identity, analytical reductionism of the challenges and problems of the relationship between national identity and collective identities.