Mohammad Zahedi asl; Farhad Bazrafkan
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Children are one of the target groups of the social policy system in Iran, whose welfare status is still in dispute. Examining the historical trend of child-centered social policies in Iran can play a role in recognizing the problems in this area and, consequently, reducing them. This study examines ...
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Children are one of the target groups of the social policy system in Iran, whose welfare status is still in dispute. Examining the historical trend of child-centered social policies in Iran can play a role in recognizing the problems in this area and, consequently, reducing them. This study examines the legislative and institutional transformations related to children since the formation of the parliament in Iran. The research method is documentary. In this regard, the approved laws and programs and general approaches of all three historical periods to childhood were examined. The results show that although the first Pahlavi era passed laws to protect children, the government tried to respond mainly to the needs of children in the form of charities and endowments. During the second Pahlavi era, efforts in this field gradually took an organized and cohesive form. During the Islamic Republic of Iran, children and childhood received more and more comprehensive attention from the Constitution to other laws. However, tensions between traditional or religious approaches and modern approaches determine the nature of most policies that in many cases has led to children being deprived of much support.
fatemeh jaafari; mohammadsaeed zokae; mohammad zahediasl; farshad momeni
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Informal employment is one of the most important sectors in Iran's economy, which is strongly associated with social exclusion; when women enter the labor market, informal employment is the most important option for them. The aim of the present study is to understand the mechanisms of deprivation of ...
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Informal employment is one of the most important sectors in Iran's economy, which is strongly associated with social exclusion; when women enter the labor market, informal employment is the most important option for them. The aim of the present study is to understand the mechanisms of deprivation of informal employment and how workers get out of this situation. The research method is of qualitative type using the grounded theory method. The study population is informal female workers in Tehran province who have been selected through a targeted sampling of 32 people to participate. The data collection technique is an in-depth and semi-structured interview. The theoretical coding method has been used to analyze the data. The research findings show that informal employment is a survival-type mechanism in which Women with empty capital and experience of power shortages in the legal, economic, social, and psychological quadrants (Inadequacy of formalization empowerment) enter this area, stay in it or leave it, On the other hand, workers in the informalization cycle are in one of the stages of forecasting, awareness, activism, regression, and liberation. According to the research, the empowerment model of formalization is one of the mechanisms that help workers in the formalization process and more access to the social protection floor.
mohammad zahediasl; azam pelehvari
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Incoherence of research, lack of accumulation, and inattention to the deeper layers of the subject in areas of addiction and family necessitate offering integrated data from research and identifying studies gaps. Thus, this study seeks to combine and compare research findings in the field of addiction ...
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Incoherence of research, lack of accumulation, and inattention to the deeper layers of the subject in areas of addiction and family necessitate offering integrated data from research and identifying studies gaps. Thus, this study seeks to combine and compare research findings in the field of addiction and family, identify common points among studies and obtain consistent results from the scattered findings in this field. This article uses meta-analysis methods and comprehensive meta-analysis (CMA2) software. Of 67 related studies, 26 studies which had necessary information for meta-analysis were selected as the final sample. The results showed that flexibility in the family, family disputes, presence of parents at home, family support, communication between family members, sexual violence, divorce, and death of a spouse are the important factors with an impact on addiction. This research showed that insufficient attention has been paid to factors affecting family and the existing studies are not consistent with the needs in this field.
mohammad zahediasl; tayebeh tarzari
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The need to security is among the primary needs that man experiences in his life. Some scholars consider it as one of the underlying factors in formation of human societies. This need is of both objective and subjective dimensions. The objective dimension lies in the real conditions of society, and the ...
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The need to security is among the primary needs that man experiences in his life. Some scholars consider it as one of the underlying factors in formation of human societies. This need is of both objective and subjective dimensions. The objective dimension lies in the real conditions of society, and the subjective one is, in fact, the interpretation of the objective conditions that people make in their minds. The present research aims to study the subjective dimension of social security, i.e. social security feeling among Afghan migrants residing in Tehran, as well as its relationship with their social capital. This was an explanatory study and the statistical population included all Afghan migrants residing in the city of Tehran (i.e. around 67,000 people). Based on Cochran's sample size formula and using cluster as well as snowballing sampling methods, 399 subjects were selected. A researcher-made questionnaire, validity and reliability of which was confirmed, was used to measure the social security feeling and social capital. The results showed that the respondents had an average-level of social security feeling and social capital. Moreover, there was a significant positive relationship between the extent of Afghan migrants’ social security feeling and their status of social capital. The results also indicated that social trust and norms of cooperation, as two aspects of social capital, had a significant relationship with social security feeling, confirmingtheories of Putnam and Cox.
mohammad zahediasl; aliasghar darveshifard
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The present research examines the social factors influencing the social health. This is a survey to identify and examine the most important social factors which influence the social health of the elderly in the city of Kouhdashat. This research is an explanatory study, with all the elderly of 60 years ...
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The present research examines the social factors influencing the social health. This is a survey to identify and examine the most important social factors which influence the social health of the elderly in the city of Kouhdashat. This research is an explanatory study, with all the elderly of 60 years of age and older living in Kouhdasht as its statistical population. About 5508 people were 60 or over in 2006, when the research was conducted; 359 persons of this population were selected through Cochran’s formula and studied. To evaluate the rate of the social health and the influential social variables, the standard Keyes questionnaire and the researchers’ questionnaire, whose validity and reliability were confirmed, were used. The research shows that most of subjects had an average social health. Also there was a significant and direct association between social support, social status, communication skills and social health. However, no significant association was observed between spare time and social health.
