Criteria for Identifying Injuries Emphasizing the Future Pathology of Social Issues

From a sociological point of view, the subject of pathology is undoubtedly a multifaceted subject that has theoretical and practical sensitivity and slipperiness. On the other hand, social change, which appears slowly, pervades other branches of social life, such as culture, politics, and economics, and connects us to the social problem. According to social analysis, it must be admitted that today is different from yesterday, just as the future will be different from today. The question is, what factor or factors connect the three past, present and future? The answer is that social issues are the links between the past, present and future of a social life. Coherence and time are important aspects of the social problem, and since the most important generators of social problems are change, changes occur constantly, leading to the production of new problems that are likely to lead to social harm. In fact, the occurrence of social change will generate social problems, and if the social context is favorable, these issues will cause social harm in the future. From this point of view, the study of the future pathology of social issues is an important platform in the pathology of social issues, emphasizing that to study the present, we need to study the past and to predict the future, the past and the present must be explored together. In the analysis of the above issue, in this article, criteria for studying the future pathology of social issues are discussed. In this study process, social change as an independent variable and social harms as an intermediate variable and a favorable social context for the future, which will be the background for the formation of emerging and surprising social problems, is the mediating variable. Coherence and time element are also important aspects of this research.