Developing a model for social progress in the light of Imam Ali (AS) guidelines; With an emphasis on a fuzzy approach

Social changes have usually happened with the aim of improving the human condition. However, sometimes human has been ignored! Human should be regarded as the focus of improvement projects. This idea should always be considered in the programs related to the changes that humans have to be initially changed so they can improve their living conditions. Respecting human personality and maintaining his/her dignity has had special status in Imam Ali's (AS) political, economic and social policy makings. This study, by using 3c's model, was to have a descriptive-analytic investigation of objectives and indicators of social development and excellence in the three branches concerning behavior, structure and context in the light of the views of Imam Ali (AS). The statistical population of this study contained experts and scholars in Islamic sciences, communication, social sciences and anthropology. All were specialist in the field of research. The research sample consisted of 118 experienced professors and experts in the fields mentioned above, chosen through snowball sampling. In this study, first, by content analysis method, the indicators of social development and excellence were identified based on Imam Ali's guidelines. Then the initial codes have been reviewed and analyzed several times using MAXQDA and 102 components were determined. Then the fuzzy Delphi technique was used to test the results. At last, 60 basic themes concerning human progress and excellence of the data set were identified. From 60 basic themes of the social progress and excellence 33 factors related to content, 8 factors to structure and 19 factors concerning context which were finally confirmed.