Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Socialprogress is considered to be the ability of human societies to meet their needs, achieve well-being and use their members' opportunities in life.This feature can be realized by activating active mechanisms,that is, socialdemands.In case of dispersion of demands,It will be associated with the possibility of abnormality and mutual destruction of the society and the government.Socialsecurity is defined as one of the most important sociological mediators in accelerating or delaying socialprogress.The aim of the current research is to empirically examine the direct and indirect relationship between socialdemand and social progress through social security based on theories such as social development, reflective demand and communicative action.The current research is done quantitatively and with the secondary analysis method.Data related to social,different independent social demand and social security mediator from officially recognizable data from the websites of Social Development Organization,World Bank,LegatumandShiller Government from2011 to2020 for four countries of Iran,Saudi Arabia,Iraq and UAE,all of which have common economic and religious characteristics,has been compiled.Despite confirming the validity and reliability of the mentioned variables,in the present research, the convergent and divergent validity has been confirmed again with the method of confirmatory factor analysis of Cronbach's alpha indices Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling method in SPSS27 and Smart Pls3 software.The results show that citizens' social demands have a direct and indirect relationship with social progress through the mediation of social security
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