Studying the Status of the Intellectual Field and Its Position on the Process of the Democratization of culture from 1979 Revolution to 1998

This article aims to study the status of the intellectual Field and its position on the process of the democratization of culture in formal and content-oriented levels, and the type of the relationship is conceived in terms of the intervention of the field of social classes and the field of power. In order to achieve this purpose, Bourdieu’s ‘theory of fields’ has been put into practice as a conceptual framework and some indexes of the democratization of culture in Karl Mannheim’s point of view. Therefore, first, the features of the fields of power, intellectualism, and social classes are shed light upon, and the subfield of literature has also been studied as the witness field in order to trace the democratic and undemocratic transformations. The great issue to be taken care of after determining the domains to be studied was the method of the collection and accessing the coordinates of these fields, documentary-library method and purposive sampling strategy, or criterion-oriented sampling, has been employed.This process, in its step-by-step development, ends up in interpretation and explanation. In this part, the explanation of the coordinates and features of the aforementioned fields is carried out in a binary form, based on which, the intellectualism field has been found to be passive and ineffective. One could even argue that some sort of confusion haunt the intellectual discourses of the time resulting from the lack of an opposition between the state-centered and independent poles, thus the structural dominance of the state-politics sphere. For this reason, the field of intellectualism itself not only fails in regard with positive effectiveness, but it does not also manage to internalize democratic polarization, distinction, and identification.