Sociological Dilema of Iranian Sociology:Critic of Critics

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the situation of sociology in Iran focusing especially on examining the lack of sociological theorizing.  For thirty years the development of positivism and experimentalism has dominated, emphasizing quantitative methodology.  The impact of this is that theorizing about Iranian society has been forgotten. To understand the reason for this we have performed a meta-analysis of discourses of social actors in social sciences. Findings indicate that this can be explained by social choices and not social chances, individualism, or a lack of cooperation or creativity.  Findings also suggest that what is important is the manner in which they spoke, perhaps even more that what they actually said.