mohammad amirpanahi

The rapid growth of the elderly population in Iran is one of the major challenges in contemporary social policy-making. It is predicted that by 2031, the elderly population will account for approximately 25% of the country's total population. These demographic changes underscore the urgent need for increased attention to the social health of the elderly. Despite the development of various laws and programs, the social aspects of elderly health—such as social participation and psychological-social support—remain insufficiently addressed in existing policies. This research examines the social policies related to the elderly and analyzes the gaps within them, offering recommendations for improving the current situation.This study employs a qualitative approach and content analysis of key policy documents to assess the existing policies. The data analyzed includes laws, development programs, national and international documents, and executive regulations related to the social health of the elderly. The data were analyzed using validity and reliability indicators.The findings indicate that current policies primarily focus on the economic and physical needs of the elderly, while the social and psychological dimensions of their well-being are largely neglected. Furthermore, community-based policies and active participation of the elderly in decision-making processes are not adequately addressed in the reviewed documents. Many of the policies are state-centered and lack intersectoral approaches.The conclusion emphasizes the need for a comprehensive revision of policies regarding the social health of the elderly. Policies should be developed in a holistic, communityoriented manner, incorporating the active participation of the elderly and nongovernmental organizations in the decision-making process. Additionally, strengthening social capital, designing elderly-friendly environments, utilizing technology in services, and creating supportive systems based on international best practices are essential components of these policies.

Understanding inferiority and the issues arising from it is one of the important concerns of social sciences. The most important groups that always experience and live with inferiority are children, women (especially female heads of households), and elderly people. The current research aims to study the lived experience of female heads of households covered by positive life centers of the Kashan Welfare Organization. The theoretical approach of the research is influenced by the findings of Freire, Gramsci and Margaret Ledwitt. By combining Freire, Gramsci’s, ideas, and Ledwit’ points to a model of community-oriented development and bottom-up development that has elements of appreciation for getting rid of poverty, critical awareness of people involved in poverty, emphasis on the issue of social justice and environmental sustainability.

The research approach is of a qualitative type, and in-depth interviews were conducted to collect data, and thematic analysis method was used for data analysis.

The findings show that women experience inferiority in the themes and concepts such as belief in the existence of discrimination in society, feelings of helplessness, insecure economic conditions, feelings of powerlessness, unstable family relationships, thirst for external support, and non-empowering organizational supports.

Due to their unstable economic conditions and the fact that they are discriminated in the society, such women are deprived of access to the sources of power in the society and they always feel helpless, and this factor causes them not only to get out of this cycle of poverty and They do not take action, but their dependence on external support increases.

The most important policy challenge to reduce poverty and social inequalities in the country is the correct and real image of this phenomenon. Although relatively many studies have been conducted in the field of poverty, most of these studies have been single, diverse and unrelated, and sometimes focused in one scientific field , which makes it possible to consider poverty in its various dimensions, which is necessary for policy. The decision is facing difficulties., using the meta-analysis method, is looking for a relatively comprehensive and coherent understanding of the phenomenon of poverty and is looking for an answer to the question of what are the general factors affecting poverty and how much each of them explains the changes in poverty.poverty in Iran is scattered, isolated and mainly from an economic point of view, and we are faced with the poverty of sociological studies of poverty and the lack of interdisciplinary studies.Furthermore, poverty research often focuses on descriptive or normative claims without explaining the causes of poverty. Most of the researches have not relied on measuring the effect of variables on poverty, which seem to present a positivist and less realistic picture of the phenomenon of poverty in Iranian society

The purpose of this paper is to test Slanner's model of the relationship between inequality and corruption, called the "inequality trap."The inequality trap starts with high levels of inequality and leads to rising levels of corruption by lowering generalized trust and then deepening inequality. we examine the inequality trap hypothesis with the institutionalist approach using Bertelsmann project transition indicators.For this purpose, from 136 countries studied in Bertelsmann study, 19 countries in Mena region were selected as the target sample. Then, by comparative-fuzzy method, four effective conditions at the institutional level including governance capacity, rule of law, free media and social capital on the outcome variable, ie inequality-corruption trap and exit from it were analyzed individually and in combination.The results of single causal analysis showed that the absence of any of the four conditions in the event of corruption is a necessary condition and causal paths to inequality-corruption also reveal two separate paths in the study countries revealing one path, lack of governance capacity and another.It was not a combination of three conditions or a weakness in the rule of law, free media and social capital.In addition, causal analyzes aimed at overcoming the trap of inequality-corruption in successful countries also showed that in these countries, the existence of a capable government in combination with social capital or free media is sufficient to achieve the result.

Artwork, including film, is a tool to represent and identify discourses in any society. Cinemas of various genres, including social, drama, sacred defense or war, have serious, transcendental contexts that reflect the qualities of social relationships and the daily lives of people. This study seeks to study the representation of the social relations commodity in cinema in the 2000s and 2010s. The conceptual framework is inspired by the ideas of Marx, Lukacs and Polanyi who have long been concerned with the domination of commodity logic and market relations over the social sphere of the modern world. Five of the films were purposely selected and reviewed. The findings show that in all the films studied and in different genres the dominance of commodity logic and market system values in individual, social, emotional, and so on relationships is evident and the social and ethical spheres are dominated by economic logic and favorable intentions. But the most common in the social and sacred genres has been the emphasis on differences in samples of the two genres.

The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of how a market will be created. This issue has been analyzed through the study of the emergence of the network of relationships, activists and work norms in the Baneh border market in Kurdistan province. For this purpose, qualitative method and interview and observation techniques, and documentary analysis were used to collect data. The conceptual and theoretical framework is the result of Karl Polanyi, Mark Granovetter, and Richard Swedberg''s views on "New Economic Sociology". The results show that the formation of the market is not accidental, natural or result of self-regulatory processes, but rather a political, legal, and institutional foundation, based on the current relationships between actors and their social and cultural roots. The social, economic, and political imperatives of the region under study have led the government, through economic policies, to create a network of relationships, actors and norms of work in sustained forms, called the "border market". In addition, the findings show that over time, the pattern of trade, the organization of economic relations, the number and nature of forces inside and outside the market and their relationships with each other have changed significantly.

The present article is the result of a secondary analysis of the social, cultural and ethical status of Iran. This survey was conducted in 2017 on a large sample of 82500 inhabitants in 426 cities. In this research, the unit of analysis is the individual, but the analysis has been carried out at the provincial level. The main purpose of the article is to present the profile and the image of the social hope of the provinces of the country. According to the results of this article, a clear picture of the state of hope for the future among Iranians can be gained. For this purpose, in addition to a general description of the country's social hope index, according to a combined indicator, the relationship between people's assessment of past, present and future, has been studied and compared in different provinces of the country. The results of this study showed that there is a meaningful relationship between assessing people from the present time and assessing the past and future. Also, according to the combined index of social hope, first, overall, the average social hope among Iranians is negative for the next ten years, and secondly, the difference and inequality in the social hope of the future will increase among the provinces.