Sociological analysis of Persian proverbs about children using the deconstruction and communicative action theory

The significance of correct relationship between adults and children is obvious in various societies. This sort of relationship is historical one and this research is going to show the quality of the relationship and gain access an analysis of the formation barriers of this kind of relationship in Iran. For this purpose, the Persian proverbs are used as cultural sediments and historical sources. The communicative action theory of Habermas is used as a theoretical framework in this research. In fact, communicative and uncommunicative actions through this theory has been accomplished. Random sampling is used to choose the proverbs and Derrida′s deconstruction is used to analyze the proverbs. what is obtained through the deconstruction of proverbs are some dichotomies that behind them hierarchical and power systems have an active presence and these factors cause the failure achieving to the attainment’s conditions of communicative action and in fact, the rise of uncommunicative action.

Keywords:

Children , Communicative action , Deconstruction , Dichotomy