Sociological analysis of the policy making system of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The system of policy making can be analyzed from different perspectives. One of these perspectives is the sociological view. In this regard, the aim of this research is to analyze the system of policy making in the Islamic Republic of Iran from a sociological perspective. To achieve this goal, a descriptive-analytical research method was used. After collecting data through library studies and analyzing them, the policy-making system of the Islamic Republic of Iran was described and analyzed from a sociological perspective. One of the most widely used sociological typologies, namely the classification of societies into traditional and modern societies, was also used for the sociological analysis of the policy making system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The results of the sociological analysis of IRR's political decision-making system show that this system has both the characteristics of traditional structures and the characteristics of modern structures, and such a combination can be beneficial if the further development of the used components of tradition and modernity in the country's policy making system is justified. And in practice, it should be efficient, effective and measurable; otherwise, it will have a non-traditional and mal-modern situation and cause unprofitable confrontations and malfunctions between the components of the country's policy making system.