The Performance of the Social Security Organization in achieving Social Justice

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Majid Badalivand ¹ , Habibollah Karimian ² , Soroush Fathi ³

1 - PhD Student in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
3 - Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-06-21 Accepted : 2021-06-21 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: Eligibility, Equal Access, Social Security Organization, Social Justice, Opportunities and Resources,

Abstract :

Social justice as one of the most important human ideals has long been considered by thinkers and experts and inequality or the feeling of inequality is the most important cause of injustice. Therefore, under the influence of theories and the will of nations to reduce Inequality and the realization of justice, especially in the modern world, various institutions and organizations have been created. The purpose of this study is to examine the performance of the Social Security Organization in the realization of social justice. The research method is survey and the statistical population is all insured persons of the General Department of Social Security West of Greater Tehran. A sample of 385 people was determined using the Cochran's formula and selected by simple cluster and random sampling. The information collected using SPSS software has been analyzed based on 12 services of the Social Security Organization. The most important obligations and services of the Social Security Organization are pension, disability pension, survivors' pension, unemployment insurance benefit, wage compensation. Sick days are maternity pay, medical allowances, marriage allowances and burial allowances. Data analysis shows that 6.2% of the respondents know that the performance of the Social Security Organization is very bad, 17.4% of the respondents are moderately bad, 34.4% of the respondents are mediocre, 27.4% are good and 14.5% are very good. Are considered moderate. Inferential findings confirm the fact that the impact of the role and position of social security (provision of insurance and medical services) on each of the indicators of social justice are: support system and redistribution (0.77), equal conditions for Access to opportunities and resources (0.71) and entitlement (0.64).