مرکز مطالعات زنان و خانواده

2018/06/21

The third national social pathology of Iran

The Third National Conference on Social Injuries of Iran was held in the presence of professors, researchers and students in various social fields at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran. The conference was held on Wednesday, June 21, 2018 with the participation of university professors, researchers and social science students. The President of the Iranian Sociological Association, the President of the Center for Women Studies and Research of the University of Tehran, Ahmad Masjed Jamei, a member of the Tehran City Council, spoke, and the late Dr. Mohammad Abdollahi, former President of the Iranian Sociological Association, was also mentioned.

At the beginning of the conference, Hossein Sirajzadeh, President of the Iranian Sociological Association, praised the late Dr. Mohammad Amin Ghanierad (a prominent professor of sociology who died last week) and said: "Scientific sociology was formed about 150 years ago and the Iranian Sociological Association The 1990s saw conferences on social issues and harms.

Following the conference, Ahmad Masjed Jamei, a member of the Islamic Council of Tehran, said: "The dominant approach regarding social issues and harms is to move towards credits, organization and structuring." "We do not have a shortage in terms of funding and budgets," he said.

Following this conference, expert panels in various fields of social harms were held. Also in this conference, Elahe Kolaei, an activist for women, a professor of political science at the University of Tehran, said: "There is sustained resistance to improve the status of women and this issue will not change except at the request of the institutions of power." The problem of social harms We have problems with software and knowledge production

Mohammad Ali Mohammadi, a professor at the University of Welfare and Rehabilitation, began his speech with the title "The Role of Social and Mental Health in the Development of Iranian Women" and said that education without a labor market is a trap for Iranian women. "While a large part of our academics are women, their share of the labor market is very small," he said. .

Roozbeh Kordoni - Head of the Public Relations Center and Assistant to the Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare in the specialized panel on critique and evaluation of policy in the field of social harms - said that the evaluation of social harm policy is not an attractive issue, said: What is to be done is to show the importance of policy evaluation in the field of people's daily lives and to prove that this evaluation is not a fashionable subject and exclusive to the research class

"Inequality of opportunity is the main cause of inequality, which is defined as the difference in access to economic opportunity and political participation and the ability to shape life, and these inequalities lead to improper functions in political-economic systems," said Hussein Raghfar, an economist at the panel on Economic Issues and Harms. And destroy the opportunity for a just society.

Mirtaher Mousavi - Scientific Secretary of the Third Iranian Conference on Social Injuries - said on Wednesday at the Third National Conference on Social Injuries in Iran: "In the last century, Iranian society has faced wide demands, as a result of which opportunities and harms have been created." He noted that the speed, diversity and multilayered nature of these changes in recent decades provide the requirements for social policymakers to regularly monitor this path and address the possibility of improving the conditions of society by addressing the harms.

Maliheh Shiani, head of the Center for Women's Studies and Research at the University of Tehran, said: "Some injuries produce other injuries and lead to other problems such as poverty and unemployment; This topic is emphasized in the abstracts of many papers presented at this conference. The head of the Center for Women's Studies and Research at the University of Tehran added: "It was on this basis that in the Third National Conference on Social Injuries in Iran, we considered a special place in the field of women and the family." Shiani continued: 557 abstracts were presented to the third conference on social harms in Iran, of which 391 were accepted; Of these, 72 are abstracts of articles in the field of family and 62 are abstracts of articles in the field of women. She continued: The articles submitted to this conference will be presented in 11 axes and in the form of meetings and panels in two days of the conference.

Ali Rabiee, Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, who was one of the speakers at the conference, called psychological insecurity the first cause of addiction as a social harm and said: "This issue is by no means less than unemployed people, but in many cases more." .

Sobhan Yahyaei, a researcher in the field of communications, stressed that the feeling of social inequality among those excluded from the national media leads to violence: "Radio is a public media that should play a national role."

Mohammad Aghasi, head of the Iranian Student Opinion Polling Center (ISPA), also said at the meeting: "According to statistics and data, 50% of Iranians enter the telegram with a filter breaker and 17% have announced that they use Soroush messengers." Some believe that the existing cyberspace is the result of the globalization of culture and believe that the harms of other societies, especially the American way of life, have affected the Iranian society, especially the youth and students.

Mehdi Masoudian, a researcher and researcher in social sciences, said at the conference about the level of viability in new cities: "Urban development was decided in 1981, but the population that was predicted for these towns does not exist due to dissatisfaction of residents and lack of urban facilities in these towns."

Zahra Emami-Ghaffari, a researcher at the university, also said in this meeting about the evaluation of the consequences of the implementation of the Mehr housing project in new cities: "Mehr housing is the main output of housing construction after the victory of the Islamic Revolution."

Zahra Mirzaei, PhD student in social work at the University of Medical Sciences and Rehabilitation, in a lecture entitled "Consequences of Early Marriage for Girls" stated that both girls and boys face many problems due to early marriage, but marriage problems for girls More than boys.

Shirin Ahmadnia, a researcher in the field of sociology, called culture-based violence one of the problems in this panel and said: "Sometimes violence is accepted as normal and within the framework of cultural values."

Leila Falahati - Head of the Women's Studies Group of the Research Institute for Cultural and Social Studies of the Ministry of Science - in a speech entitled "Study of the status of social harms of women and girls in the world", called social harms and problems a pervasive phenomenon in all countries and societies.

The closing ceremony of the conference was held on Thursday evening in Ibn Khaldun Hall of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, with the presence of professors and guests.