. Designing and validation of a social development model with a mixed method (case of study: neighborhoods of the city of Zanjan)

Subject Areas : Urban Sociological Studies

Younes Eskandari ¹ , Gholamreza Meamar Zadeh ² , Mostafa . Jafari . ³ , Naser Hamidi ⁴

1 - Public Administration, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran.
2 - Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Economics. Islamic Azad University of Science and Research, Tehran, Iran
3 - .Assistant professor, Department of Public Administration, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
4 - .Associate professor, Department of Industrial Management, Ghazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ghazvin, Iran

Received: 2021-05-11 Accepted : 2021-05-11 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: quality of life, Social Justice, Social Security, social solidarity and harmony, ethics of social development,

Abstract :

This study aimed to design and validate a model of social development utilizing a mixed method in the neighborhoods of the city of Zanjan. In the qualitative part, the data-based method and in the quantitative part, a structural equation modeling method was used with an emphasis on partial least squares approach. The research population of the qualitative section consisted of knowledgeable experts, that is, experts of the scientific community and academicians who have executive backgrounds at the decision-making levels. Targeted sampling method was used to determine the samples of these experts. After interviewing 12 knowledgeable experts, theoretical saturation was obtained and the semi-structured in-depth interview process was completed. In the quantitative part, a causal type descriptive-analytical research method was used via a survey. the research population consisted of the residents of 25 neighborhoods of the city, whose number according to the Statistics Center of Iran in 1397 was 430871 people. Using Cochran's formula and a cluster and purposeful sampling technique, 384 people were selected as the sample. The results of the qualitative section showed that the social development model includes 5 dimensions, 19 components and 52 indicators. On the basis of these 5 dimensions, the impact of social solidarity and harmony, social justice, quality of life, social security, and ethics of social development on social development was tested using structural equation modeling with Smart- Pls software. The results showed that social development was influenced by  social solidarity and harmony (8.183), social justice (4.989), quality of life (4.317), social security (4.106), and ethics of social development (8.906).