THE EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT: THE CASE OF IRAN’S 1979 ISLAMIC REVOLUTION

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The present study is concerned with investigating the course of Iranian Islamic Revolution from the viewpoint of collective emotion. The data was extracted from Iranian newspapers and magazines covering the events during the intensification of mass protests in November 1978 to the settling of clerical rule in September 1979. The study adopted a content analysis, specifically sentiment analysis of verbal and non-verbal data (photos, caricatures), in terms of their emotional content and transactions between various social groups. To this end, an emotion category set, comprising four subsets, was prepared to suit the description of social movements and the transactional analysis method, introduced by Eric Berne (2011) for interpersonal interaction , was extended to the interaction between social groups. These groups were identified to be six in number based on the results of the constitutional assembly election in August of 1979. The main conclusions of the study are; firstly, collective emotion underwent a shift from positively valenced ‘Hope’ before the victory of revolution to negatively valenced ‘Anger’ as the Islamist group succeeded in steering the society to the Islamization and establishing the clerical supremacy. Secondly, the emotional transaction between the Islamists and other groups was dominated with Parent-Child type and the adult-adult interaction, required for the establishment of democracy was insignificant.

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Emotion, Transactional Analysis, Social Movements, Area Studies, Emotion Labeling, Iranian Islamic Revolution 1979

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M. GHOLIZADEH, “THE EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT: THE CASE OF IRAN’S 1979 ISLAMIC REVOLUTION,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.