According to the Public Relations and International Affairs Department, Dr. Seyed Javad Hosseini said on Saturday at the 39th National Social Worker Day Conference titled "Social Work and Empowering Policymaking" at the House of Humanities Thinkers: "The changes and transformations in today's world are at a stunning speed, such that in the waves of the communication world, we are moving from the physical world to the digital world and from there to the mental world, and now we are entering the metaverse world. The more we move towards new waves, the faster the pace of change increases, so that from a sociological perspective, today's society can be called a stormy society."
He added: A stormy society is one in which the speed of change is increasing day by day. The second characteristic of a stormy society is the pervasiveness of change in all aspects of life, and the third characteristic of a stormy society is that changes have penetrated from the superficial level of life to the deep layers of human life. The fourth component is that these changes are unknown in many areas. The fifth characteristic of a stormy society is that a stormy society is a surprising society, and this is why Iran has not been able to remain immune from this area, and today's Iranian sociologists have named this society with these characteristics, of course, with many other names.
Dr. Hosseini added: Iranian society has faced harms such as five decades of inflation above 20 percent, unemployment above 15 percent, renting, 14 million annual displacements, and marginalization, which have increased social harms and abnormalities.
He added: To reduce and control these harms in the first decade after the revolution, an afterlife-oriented and ethical approach was used with the tools of advice and counsel, which changed to a control and security policy with police tools in the second decade after the revolution.
Dr. Hosseini continued: In the third decade of the revolution, scientific and social policy against harms began. If a social issue is looked at with a political approach, the rate of inconclusiveness increases and that social issue becomes a security issue, and then it requires surgery. Surgery also causes bleeding and is inefficient.
The head of the National Welfare Organization said: The social orientation in solving social problems could not succeed in practice because we did not take the role of social workers seriously.
The head of state welfare organization stated: "We hope that by reviving the neighborhood welfare model, which will be unveiled soon, we will take progressive steps towards empowering eight million welfare recipients and two and a half million of their families, who together constitute 10 percent of the country's population." Dr. Hosseini noted: "All employees of government and non-government welfare institutions must be helpers above all else, and if someone does not have a helper's perspective, their philosophy of existence in welfare will be meaningless. We have reached a point where the welfare and relief committees must change their approach."
Dr. Hosseini emphasized that social workers should be given the hard work and added: "The Ministry of Welfare should work harder to approve the Social Work System Organization, and we will do this." He continued: "Social work centers must be developed. Positive Life Centers have harmed social work centers, which is why social work centers will be revived."
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