Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Zahra Farzizadeh ¹ , Somayeh Haghi ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Social Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
2 - Assistant Professor, Farhangian University of Lorestan Province

Received: 2024-03-02 Accepted : 2024-05-18 Published : 2024-01-31

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