Institutional Context of Worriness in Iranian Life

Trend of social change in Iran shows acceleration of worriness. We as sociologists have the habit to worry about social problems, but this time worriness is concerned as a problem. The main stages of life in contemporary Iran are increasingly going to be a worried situation. University entrance exams, finding jobs, marriage, house buying; fertility, health, retirement and also death ceremony in Iranian contemporary are accompanied by worriness. This problem damages psychological security and also personal and collective ethics. This article focuses on Barbalet, Beck, Giddens and Bauman theories. The method of this article is secondary analysis. It seems that institutional instability in Iran, changes life to unpredictable and worried affairs. This paper reviews some index of crucial social institutions like family, economy, and bureaucracy to show that how these institutions made Iranian life world unpredictable and create epistemological insecurity. The lack of efficient welfare organization has led to an increase in this situation.