Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract Current developments in the social, political and economic spheres of Iranian society, especially from the second half of the 1390s onwards (developments such as the emergence of two major waves of protests in January 2017 and November 2017 and the expansion of trade union protests; increasing consumption of virtual social networks, The unprecedented impact of the stock market phenomenon and the ups and downs of the dollar price on the economic and social life of Iranians and social and economic impacts of Covid pandemic, shows the emergences of new waves which can deeply affect future Iranian society before entering the new century. This paper seeks to use the theory of "risk society" by Ulrich Beck, a contemporary German sociologist, and by proposing the idea of a "market risk society", a framework for understanding the process by which the future of Iran underlies sometimes disparate developments to overshadow and to open a new theoretical perspective on the future of Iran after 1400 before the eyes of policymakers and policy makers of the country

Abstract Most of the scholars agree that the Modern Society has underwent a fundamental change and different terms, such as postmodern era, post-materialist society and so on has been used for characterizing this development. Abovementioned development, according to German sociologist Ulrich Beck, is not surpassing Modernity but is deepening of it. By coining the term of “risk society”, he tried to demonstrate that in late modern society, we have been facing the ubiquity of risk in every sphere of life and the vast knowledge of people regarding the risks. In that society, threats and risks are not in the form of natural disasters but are originated from the activities of human beings and technological developments.Any change in the threats and risks will be translated into the new policies, because one of the most important functions of politics is combating the threats.