Contemplation in the Meaning of the Images of the Futures: Building a Concept from Social Identity

Taheri Demneh, Mohsen; Pourezzat, Ali Asghar; Zolfagharzadeh, Mohammad Mahdi

Contemplation in the Meaning of the Images of the Futures: Building a Concept from Social Identity

Volume 16, Issue 64
Winter 2014

Pages 61-76

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohsen Taheri Demneh ¹

Ali Asghar Pourezzat ²

Mohammad Mahdi Zolfagharzadeh ³

¹ Ph.D Candidate in Futures Studies, University of Tehran

² Ph.D in Public Administration, Public Policy, University of Tehran; Professor in Faculty of Management, University of Tehran

³ Ph.D in Public Policy Management, University of Tehran; Assistant Professor in Faculty of Management, University of Tehran

Abstract

The present study seek to answer the question about whether future images can create identity. The gist of the paper, metaphorically speaking, is that the passengers getting on a vehicle are more similar due to the common destination than the individual similarities. As such, the society which is like a ship moving toward a destination owes its identity not to the similar ethnic, racial, linguistic, cultural, and historical characteristics of its people but to the shared destination they heading toward. This paper will also discuss that the new perception of identity which we refer to as destination identity is of a great capacity to create solidarity and identity whether in the case of compatibility with societies in the transition phase.

Keywords

Destination Identity

Social Construction of Reality

Futures Studies

Images of the Future

Solidarity