The sociological Study of Social Development Challenges in East Azerbaijan Province

Parvin Eshraghi Oskouii ¹ ( PhD Student in Sociology of Social Issues, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Department of Social Sciences, Research and foresight expert of East Azarbaijan Province, Management and Planning Organization Tabriz, Iran )
Hosein Banifatemeh ² ( Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran (corresponding author), E-mail: [e-mail] )
Davood Ebrahimpoor ³ ( Department of Social Sciences and Communication, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran, )
Mohammad Abbaszadeh ⁴ ( Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran )

Submited date : 2023-06-03 Accepted date : 2023-06-26

Keywords: Management, Social Development, Anomie, lack of participation, social challenge,

Abstract :

The aim of the present research is to identify the challenges of social development in East Azarbaijan Province. The research method is a qualitative method and the grounded theory approach is used as the operational method of the research. In order to collect the required data, a semi-structured interview tool was used. For this purpose, 22 experts and citizens of East Azerbaijan province were interviewed. The findings of the research indicate that the identified challenges in this province are structural challenges (with the subcategories of centralization in provincial decision-making and weakness in budget allocation), cultural and social challenges (with the subcategories of lack of cooperation and knowledge gap), management challenges (with the subcategories of incorrect appointments, incomplete application of land use findings, poor management of transitions) and finally agency-oriented challenges (with the subcategories of individualism and lack of group participation, having an authoritarian personality, narrow-mindedness in social interactions, lack of feeling of belonging to the city(. In this article, the obtained central core is "social development management". This concept reflects the management issues and challenges in the development process of the East Azerbaijan province.

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