Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Khalkhal Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khalkhal, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Khalkhal Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khalkhal, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Socio-Cultural and Soft Power, Faculty of Humanities and Soft Power, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/rjnsq.2022.290697.1293
Abstract
Ethnicity, is a kind of cultural perception that members consider their values and norms to be superior. It is a cultural and social opposition to other groups that has a multi-generational persistence and is studied in the context of cultural and social divisions. In its ancient history, Azerbaijan has had a continuous geographical-political, social and cultural unity with Iran, and throughout Iran, it has been the common property of Azerbaijan, like other ethnic groups. In recent decades, the social phenomenon of ethnicity has been one of the strategic policies of foreign powers and neighbors with the aim of creating divisions among Iranian ethnic groups. The United States, Turkey, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Russia, the Zionist regime, some European countries and Saudi Arabia are trying to form separatist movements. Ethnicity is a new phenomenon in the policies of the great arrogant powers and has no internal nature and the integration of Azerbaijan with Iran over the centuries shows this. In this research, the phenomenon of ethnicity has been studied based on a qualitative approach and historical method.
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