A study of hangouts and places of prevalence of drugs among women in Shush area of Tehran (from concentrated hangouts to scattered hangouts)

Pasha Rezaei Bidakhovidi ¹ ( PhD student, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences,Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran )
Ali Baghaeisarabi ² ( Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran )
Asmeh Ghasemi ³ ( Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iranh )

Submited date : 2024-12-23 Accepted date : 2025-05-24

Keywords: hangouts, spatial reproduction, situational normality, drugs.,

Abstract :

Objective: Shush area of ​​Tehran has been one of the most important urban spaces for the production, distribution and spread of narcotics since before the revolution. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying distribution patterns, hangouts and places of prevalence of drugs among women in Shush region. The approach of ecological ecology and defenseless urban spaces was used for theoretical sensitivities.  Method: The research method was qualitative. The studied community were active organizations involved in addiction, including social associations, police force, as well as local trustees and historians of Tehran (especially south of Tehran). This way has been used in a purposeful way and with the use of semi-structured interviews in order to discover hangouts and their governing characteristics. Data were extracted using coding theme analysis and main and secondary themes. Findings: The findings show that we are witnessing four spatial patterns of "focal, scattered, point and cluster" of drugs in the urban area of ​​ among women Shush, which correspond to them in the order of hangouts such as "Shush square, rented houses and smokehouses". Red license plates, parking lots and parks  have been formed. The results of the research indicate that due to spatial fertility and chains, a kind of "situational normality" of drugs has been formed in the world of Sush around drugs, which, along with the traditional norms and values ​​of families and active groups in the region, has led to the institutionalization of drugs among women in this region. has been the region. In addition, in this process, the negative stigma and label has been removed to a large extent, so that it is configured in the spatial identity of Sush region and people do not show much resistance against it.

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