University Lecturer and Director of Abrar Moaser Tehran Center for Cultural Studies and International Research
Abstract
According to existing evidences, there are logical relationships between the social classes and conditions of developing and developed societies and hence class analysis is one of the methods of strategic analysis of order and change in these societies. Due to being in the age of information, knowledge and technology, the Middle class compared to other classes, enjoys a significant status. Also in the current age, information, knowledge and software technologies play an effective role in maintenance of security and emergence of soft war – with roles and functions similar to classic wars – and thus a logical relationship has been established between the middle class and security and soft war. This relationship has underlined the significance of understanding of the existence or absence of social class in a society, its size, the size and expanse of the middle class in the said society and designing of a suitable model for assessment of the role and function of the middle class in security and soft war. In the present research, the said model has been designed with four criteria of class structure of society; relations of middle class constructions and the political system; solidarity or lack of solidarity of the middle class; and the organization and identity of middle class. The relationship between the middle class and the political system enjoys a special status in this model.
Abdullahkhani, A. (2012). Designing a Model for Assessment of the Role and Function of Middle Class in Security and Soft War. Strategy for Culture, 4(16), 107-126.
MLA
Ali Abdullahkhani. "Designing a Model for Assessment of the Role and Function of Middle Class in Security and Soft War". Strategy for Culture, 4, 16, 2012, 107-126.
HARVARD
Abdullahkhani, A. (2012). 'Designing a Model for Assessment of the Role and Function of Middle Class in Security and Soft War', Strategy for Culture, 4(16), pp. 107-126.
VANCOUVER
Abdullahkhani, A. Designing a Model for Assessment of the Role and Function of Middle Class in Security and Soft War. Strategy for Culture, 2012; 4(16): 107-126.
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