Futuristic Research in the Roots of Images of the Future

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

​Department of futures studies, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Images of the future are inextricably linked to desires, values and human ideals. The most important issue in investigation of future images is their role in shaping social changes. Future images beside value are the most significant building blocks of social changes. Ergo, this study as a fundamental study in qualitative research tradition deploys a blend of thematic analysis to explore the images of future of Iranian society among the young people. The results show that images of future among participant include seven key components: 1. Historical monuments of the past, 2. the weight of the present time, 3. The road taken by the descendants, 4. Conjectures about future, 5. The shadow of the society, 6. Regrets, inabilities and shortages, and 7. Understanding future.
The nature of most of these constructive roots of future images reflects on these assumptions that the future images of the young people of Iran have a profound relationship with their past and present experience of their lives, and they have little ability to imagination in a desirable future and to break the existing situation in favor of They have a in preferable situation. These assumptions should be tested in future research.

Keywords

Main Subjects

References

بل، وندل. ۱۳۹۲. مبانی آینده‌پژوهی. ترجمۀ مصطفی تقوی و محسن محقق. جدل 1. تهران: انتشارات موسسۀ آموزشی و تحقیقاتی صنایع دفاعی، مرکز آینده‌پژوهی علوم و فناوری دفاعی.
پایا، علی و علی­رضا همتی. ۱۳۹۶. «ارزیابی نقادانۀ روش­شناسی­های آینده­نگاری و آینده­پژوهی». مطالعات راهبردی سیاست­گذاری عمومی. سال ۷. شمارۀ ۲۲. صص 157-184.
سردار، ضیاءالدین. 1396. آینده: تمام آنچه اهمیت دارد. ترجمۀ محسن طاهری دمنه. تهران: انتشارات آینده‌پژوه.
طاهری دمنه، محسن، علی اصغر پورعزت و محمد مهدی ذوالفقارزده.1394. «تأملی در مفهوم تصاویر آینده به مثابه ساخت هویت اجتماعی». مطالعات ملی. سال 16. شمارۀ 4. صص 76-61.
Aligica, Paul. D. 2011. "A critical realist image of the future Wendell bell’s contribution to the foundations of futures studies". Futures. Vol. 43.pp. 610-617
Kaboli, Seyedeh Akhgar and Tapio, Petri. 2017. "How late-modern nomads imagine tomorrow? A Causal Layered Analysis practice to explore the images of the future of young adults". Futures. Vol. 96. Pp. 32-43
Morgan, Dennis. 2002. "Images of the future: A historical perspective". Futures. Vol.34. pp. 883-893.
Rubin. Anita. 2013. "hidden, inconsistent, and influential: images of the future in changing times". Futures. Vol.45. pp.38-44.
Taheri Demneh, Mohsen and Morgan, Dennis. 2018. "Destination Identity: Futures Images as Social Identity". Futures studies journal. vol. 22. No. 3. Pp. 51-64.
Bell, Wendell and Mau, J.A. (Eds.). 1971. The Sociology of the Future, Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
Strategic Studies of public policy
Volume 8, Issue 29
Special Issue of Society and development
March 2019
Pages 45-65

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics