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Hope for the future in recent social science studies indicates a positive assessment of the improvement of economic and social conditions. Evaluation of one's future is greatly influenced by evaluation of past trends and the current state of society. In fact, respondents' assessment of the future is ...
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Hope for the future in recent social science studies indicates a positive assessment of the improvement of economic and social conditions. Evaluation of one's future is greatly influenced by evaluation of past trends and the current state of society. In fact, respondents' assessment of the future is a kind of critique of the current and past situation and policies; A kind of reflection evaluation and critique of the continuity and stickiness of current policies. This perception is reminiscent of the historical nature of the issue of hope. In this paper, society’s assessment of the future is reviewed based on data from the National Social Health Survey. In this survey, which was conducted in 2018, the respondents' assessment of the future situation was sought in eight economic and social areas: welfare status, happiness, moral and religious values, economic status, status of empathy, housing status, health status, and employment status. One question is asked about each of these, and the three options "gets better", "does not change", and "gets worse" are presented to the respondents. Putting the data of this survey with the two surveys of Iranians 'values and attitudes and social capital over time shows the declining trend of Iranians' hopeful assessment of the future. Using the data in the analytical and statistical reports of related areas such as poverty, unemployment, regional inequalities and the status of the provinces, etc., the relationship between the survey data and the actual situation of the society is explained.
reza safari shali; Taqi Parsamehr Parsamehr
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The analysis of discourse texts during 1989-1997 indicated that the discourse governing this period was of economic development type. Based on this discourse, the main condition of independence was justice, poverty alleviation, continuation of revolution, and economic development. One of the necessary ...
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The analysis of discourse texts during 1989-1997 indicated that the discourse governing this period was of economic development type. Based on this discourse, the main condition of independence was justice, poverty alleviation, continuation of revolution, and economic development. One of the necessary requirements of policy analysis is evaluating the programs of this period according to its governing spirit in the context of contextual discourse. Thus, the objective was explaining the role of socio-political discourse of economic development in the formation of pension funds crisis. In other words, the roots and causes of funds crisis were evaluated in the discourse layer and also the future constructivism was illustrated in form of narration. The findings indicated that the concept of retirement was represented in the discourse context of economic development due to the most important sign of this period, i.e. "production and economic development" with its specific interpretation. The signified being consistent with this sense including the adjustment of human resources, government downsizing, etc., have experienced semantic reduction and have provided the potential of specific orientations on social security, retirement policies, funds crisis accumulation, and transmission of crisis narration to future governments.
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Using an analytical approach and proposing the question: How is the convergence of social policy and social work possible? this study aims to investigate the role of social work in social policy development and the effect of welfare ideologies, and consequently social policies on social work. This paper ...
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Using an analytical approach and proposing the question: How is the convergence of social policy and social work possible? this study aims to investigate the role of social work in social policy development and the effect of welfare ideologies, and consequently social policies on social work. This paper identifies and conceptualizes the areas of interest to express this relationship in two axial roles: 1) the minimalist role in which the social worker is only the executor of social policy. In this situation, the social worker appears in the role of social policy executor in organizations and centers that provide social services, and 2) the extremist role in which the social worker acts as the social policy reformer. In this situation, the social worker embarks on a plan to analyze the existing problem, to present a research proposal, and even approve the policy at the same time with implementing the social policies to determine the agenda for implementing or preventing the implementation of a policy. In this role, the social worker both helps with developing the effective social work in a two-way interaction with social policy and help with the dynamicity and evolution of the social policy in an organic connection; the synergy interaction which is considered as a necessity for up-to-date social work and applied social policy in Iran.
