Iranian Journal of Sociology

Abstract Justice is an important social subject and the justice research is a necessary action of humanities. Justice research is a scientific and methodical study of justice for social change and applicability or theoretical and non-applicable research that is carried out in the fields of the basics and methodology of justice research and theorizing and implementing justice. In this research, the theses of sociology of the top universities of Iran have been analyzed with a systematic review method. The findings indicate the sixth rank of social sciences and social justice among disciplines and subjects of humanities. The quantity of justice research by formulating a system of problems, analyzing the problem position of justice research in sociology and the role of governments and discourses of justice and its quality by strengthening methodological dimensions, balance of research strategies, applied research, the balance of the aspects of justice research and the harmony of ontology and epistemology of theses will increase. The most important opportunity for the justice research for sociology is organizing the concepts related to justice, but the lack of sociologically attention to the justice research is a threat that its solution is the semantic research of justice and the return of the normative view of sociology to justice.