Prioritizing Iranian social problems

Mehri Sadat Mousavi¹ Saeed Taherian² Somayeh Maleki³

1) Faculty Member and Head of Allameh Tabatabai University Jihad
2) Member of Social Problems Group of Allameh Tabataba i University Jihad
3) Allameh Tabataba i University Jihad researcher

IOI Code : XBHC-EBHKG
Publication : 2nd Natinal Conference on Social Pathology(asibuma.ir/2nd)
Abstract :
    Introduction : In order to achieve a healthy and growing society, prevalent social problems in the country must be recognized and determine which problem is a priority and must act on it. Due to the multiplicity and complexity of the various definitions of social problem, solutions and determine its cases in the country, prioritizing social problems is done in different ways and prioritize social problems could reflect mixed results with respect to enforcement experts, the public, academics and organizations.so its necessary to do practical researches which help us to understand and plan to solve the problem and prioritize social problems from a different perspective. Methods : This article is extracted from a descriptive and exploratory research projects and to its implementation has been used the methods of documentary and Delphi (one stage).documentary Study in this research includes the study of MA and Ph.D. dissertations and extracting research topics and priorities related organizations and institutions in the field of social issues. To achieve the main social problems from the perspective of university professors conducted interviews with a number of experts in this field and using the Delphi method (one-step), was recognized the most important social problems from their perspective. The survey has been done to achieve public opinion about the most important social problems in Tehran. The statistical population consisted of the following: 1 - All MA and Ph.D. dissertations and research projects, with issues related to social problems, 2 - citizens 18 years and older living in the 22 districts of Tehran, 3 - Experts and academics in this field (ten of them were selected and 4 - Organizations and institutions that have carried out research in the field of social problems. Results : The results showed that fifteen priority of social problems from the viewpoints of experts were the collapse of social capital; ineffectiveness and passiveness of experts and elites in society management; poverty; inflation; social inequalities and gaps; unemployment; addiction; social cultural and generational conflicts; problems of manufacturing organizations or educational institutions; theft; lawlessness; disorder and chaos in society; environmental crises; uneven development , administrative and economic corruptions. According to the citizens opinion the most important social problems, including the following: the unemployment, theft and robbery, inflation, poverty, addiction, economic instability, administrative and economic corruptions, lack of commitment, expertise, integrity or compassion between administrators, marriage, government inefficiency, lawlessness, disorder and chaos in society, housing, non-systematic nature of foreign nationals, traffic and transportation problems, deviant behavior and moral corruption. Due to concern for master s degrees and Ph.D. students, were addiction, divorce, violence, poverty, administrative and economic corruptions, Suicide and homicide, employment and unemployment, discrimination, ethnic cultural problems, children, wife and elder abuse, theft, suburbia, street child, the collapse of social capital, the gap between generations. Priorities of organizations and institutions in the research field related to social problems were the addiction, ethnic cultural problems, social security, divorce, family problems (relationship, sexual satisfaction, etc.), informal settlements, deviant behavior and moral corruption, identity and identity conflict, employment, migration, street child, marriage, administrative and economic corruptions, suicide and homicide, poverty. By applying the weights for fifteen priority problems in any of the aforementioned groups, addiction, unemployment and the collapse of social capital, poverty, divorce, administrative and economic corruptions, inflation and high prices, theft, family problems (relationship, sexual satisfaction, etc.), ethnic cultural problems, deviant behavior and moral corruption, suicide and homicide, ineffectiveness and passiveness of experts and elites in society management, identity and identity conflict, socially disadvantaged people (street child, homeless people), social inequalities and gaps, lawlessness, disorder and chaos in society, violence, migration, economic instability, social, cultural, generational and value conflicts, lack of commitment, expertise, integrity or compassion between administrators, discrimination, problems of manufacturing organizations or educational institutions, government inefficiency, environmental crises, housing, traffic and transportation problems, contraband, uneven development, non-systematic nature of foreign nationals, women s problems, children, wife and elder abuse have been put forward as the most important social problems. Discussion : recent previous studies has provided a list of priorities for the country s social problems in various forms. According to the results of this paper and the results of previous studies, we can see that in rafiee s (1387) and abdullahi s (1381) researches as well as the results obtained in this paper, addiction is ranked first among social problems and in most other studies addiction is ranked third or fourth. Most previous projects have extracted the country s most important social problems from the perspective of one of these groups: people, scholars and experts or the results of a meta-analysis of studies and supervision, but in this article, social problems have been prioritized according to the results from different sources, the experts, the public, students theses and research projects in various organizations and institutions related to social issues.

Keywords : social problem prioritization addiction social capital collapse unemployment