Explanation the Importance of Pride Worthies Recognition in Order to Elevate Iranian Contemporary Cultural Identity

Today, facing globalization, national and ethnic identities have become more important in micro and macro cultural fields. In globalization process, pride worthies of one nation have direct relation with cultural identity. Pride worthies are person or Phenomenon that we can be proud of them. In various cultures and civilizations some research has be done about figures but more of them are about persons who are elites or famous in one or several fields like science, art, culture, politics, religious and etc. The main purpose of this research is redefinition of the concept pride worthy in Iranian contemporary culture. In order to achieve this purpose, the following questions must be answered. What is the meaning and scope of pride worthies and are there any factors or the criteria for identifying these pride worthies? Although in the first section of this paper, concept and scope of pride worthies have been studied and in the other part, identity dimension as the most important function of pride worthies’ cognition has been studied. Maybe professional dimension of one pride worthy be attractive for expert persons of that field but identity dimension could elevate public culture and national and ethnic identities in wider area. This research is done with exploratory-explanatory method and the main result of it is introduction and cognition of cultural and artistic pride worthies of one nation and effort to make models for members of society, will be effective to elevate individual, social and national identities.