A Study on the relationship between Social Capital and Sustainable Urban Development (Case of study: Mazandaran province)
Subject Areas : Urban Sociological Studies
moharram azad
1
,
ali rahmani firuozjah
2
,
Ali Asghar Abbasi Asfajir
3
1 - Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
2 - Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran (corresponding author)
3 - Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
Keywords: Social capital, Mazandaran Province, Environmental Sustainability, Social sustainability, Sustainable Urban Development, Economic Sustainability,
Abstract :
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between social capital and sustainable urban development in the urban population of Mazandaran province over the last 20 years. In order to investigate the relationship between these two variables, theories proposed by Putnam, Fukuyama, Misra, Einstein and Driscott were used. Data were collected using a survey method and a questionnaire tool from a statistical sample of 400 subjects. The descriptive findings of the current research showed that the status of the social capital index and all its components (i.e. social awareness, social trust, generalized norms, social participation and social cohesion) and the sustainable urban development index and all its dimensions (i.e. economic sustainability, social sustainability, environmental sustainability, physical sustainability and institutional sustainability) were located at the lower level than the moderate level. The explanatory findings of the research showed that social capital and all its components had a strong direct and significant relationship with sustainable urban development. In Pearson correlation coefficient, the relationship between social capital and all its components with sustainable urban development was significant. In multivariate regression analysis, the effects of all social capital components (other than generalized norms) were significant. Based on the Beta coefficient, variables social trust and social participation, respectively had the most impact on sustainable urban development. Also, َaccording to the results of structural equation modeling, on the basis of various indices, the theoretical model of the research had a good fit.
