Driving Culture in Iran

Reza Banakar is Professor and Director of Research in the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. He has previously held the positions of Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster and Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Normativity in Legal Sociology (2015) and Law and Social Theory (2010, 2013).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Doing Social Research in Iran. Reza BanakarChapter 2: Estebd?d: Pilot Study in Shiraz and Tehran. Reza Banakar and Shahrad Narrulahi FardChapter 3: The Power of Education: Interviews with Male Taxi Drivers. Reza Banakar and Shahrad Narrulahi FardChapter 4: The Role of Trust: Interviews with Lawyers. Reza BanakarChapter 5: A Class Ridden Society: Interviews with Other Professionals. Reza BanakarChapter 6: Gender, Sexuality and Dominance: Interviews with Female Taxi Drivers. Reza Banakar and Behnoosh PayvarChapter 7: Iranian Culture: Reflections on Individualism and Community. Reza Banakar and Zara SaeidzadehChapter 8: Iranian Legal Culture: Law, Gender and Class Divisions. Reza BanakarChapter 9: Reproduction of Meaning and Women’s Autonomy. Behnoosh PayvarChapter 10: The Iranian Legal System. Shahrad Narrulahi Fard