Ethnic Ineqality in Iran

An Overview

Bibliographic Data

ID8970695
AuthorsAkbar Aghajanian (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume15
Issue2
Pages211-224
Publication date1983-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800052284
OpenAlexW2137092830
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited12

In this paper we discussed socioeconomic inequality among ethnic communities in Iran. There were significant clues to the widening gap between Persian and non-Persian communities. That is, contrary to the existing theories, modernization and industrialization have not been accompanied with improvement in the distribution of the resources among ethnic communities; rather they have increased inequality. Thus, we looked into the particular nature of Iranian modernization for causes of interethnic inequality. Political centralization, domination of Persian language and culture, and centralization of early industrialization contributed much to the development of the interethnic inequality at early stage of the Iranian modernization. In the new area, the 1960s–1970s, the existing gap was further widened by centralized and urban-biased economic growth. This was possible only because of the government's unique access to the increasing oil revenues which were generated with very little help from the domestic means of production

Development economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Government (linguistics · Industrialisation · Inequality · Modernization theory · Persian · Political science · Politics · Population · Revenue · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Islamic Studies and History · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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