Social Interaction in Iran: A Review on Problems of Interpersonal Interaction in the “Articles on Social Situations of the Country”

Social interaction is the most basic element of social life and its characteristics determine the characteristics of the society. Interactive problems are the fundamental factors of different types of social disequilibriums. This article reflects the state of social interaction in Iran as perceived and reported by sociologists. For this purpose, the book of "Articles on social situations of the Country" was selected as the main text after long consideration. This book contains 44 articles with new and comprehensive data from academic researchers and scholars. Directed content- analysis method was used to extract themes regarding social interaction state in Iran. Findings are categorized into three sections. The first section contains: “existence and increase of egoistic individualism”, “the existence of immoral interactions”, “existence and increase of criminal interactions” and “existence and increase of administrative corruption”. These results indicate the predominance of cold interactions in Iran. The second section entails: “decrease of family interactions”, “Cold Interactions in the Family (Violence)”, “Withholding from family interactions (solo living)”,” and Breakdown of spouse’s relationships in the family (divorce)”. The thirst and last section consists of: “Withholding from interactions”, “Weakness of interactions”, “Limited radius interactions”, “Cross-sectional interactions”, “Collapse of Cooperation”, “The weakness of NGOs” And “Weakness of positive emotions and social Belongingness”, which show “the weakness of positive interactions and emotions.” In sum, the findings indicate the weakness of positive interactions and emotions and increase of cold interactions in Iran.