The appearance of the modern family in Iran Relying on the social changes of the Qajar and Pahlavi periods

In this paper, in order to understand the process of the development of the family institution in contemporary Iran, a descriptive-analytical study of the trend of modernization and social changes in the last century in Iran with rationalization, division of social labor and disembody has been addressed. The research is based on qualitative research, with the use of historical and documentary methods. Since the research problem is question the discovery of the causation of the development of the family. Up-to-down form of modernizing, has led to the formation of a family institution in a special way; rationalization of society, division of labor and the assignment of family functions to new institutions as well as migration and sedition have been effective factors in shaping the new form of family. These historical trends have made the transformation of the extended family to the nuclear one, in the context of modernization, in a way that it can be called the "dependent family", because the migration from the kinship network leads to maintain family ties and family support and to prevent the formation of a nuclear family independently. A modern woman emanates from such a background and employs social life, while still affiliated with the social context, a dependent individual from the modern social system.