Cultural Strategies for the Empowerment of the Vulnerable Populations (Case Study: Families Covered by Vefagh Sabz Alavi Charity Foundation)

Subject Areas : Journal of Cultural Management

AMIR HOSSEIN ROSTAMI ¹ ( Charity Foundation of VEFAGH SABZ ALAVI )
Kambiz Peykarjo ² ( Faculty member of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author): [e-mail] )

Received: 2018-02-05 Accepted : 2018-05-21 Published : 2019-02-20

Keywords: life skills, Strategy, vulnerable people, Empowerment, Culture,

Abstract :

Introduction & Objective: Today, countries have found empowerment the most effective way to achieve sustainable development. The goal is to empowerment helpless people to try to overcome their weaknesses by increasing their skills and improve their positive aspects. The present research seeks to investigate the strategies of cultural empowerment of vulnerable sectors of society in addition to investigating various internal and external factors. Research method: In this regard, among the clients family covered Charity Foundation of vefagh sabz alavi, 329 people were selected as samples, who participated in 20 cultural and skill education courses for 6 months, then using different theoretical approaches and methods. You know, four cultural strategies including: promoting the Quranic culture, emphasizing on cultural identity, emphasizing national identity, and teaching life skills on the five empowerment components including self-efficacy, self-determination, self-esteem, meaningfulness and trust, were measured and According to them, the data analyzed were analyzed. Findings: In this research, a questionnaire was used. The pre-test questionnaires showed Cronbach's alpha of 80% and the reliability value was more than 70%. In this study, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to examine the normal or normal distribution of data. According to the results of this test, we find that the intended sample of this study is not normal. Therefore, nonparametric statistical tests were used to analyze the data. To test the hypotheses of this research, we used Chi-square test. Conclusion: The results of the research are as follows: In the first hypothesis, the correlation coefficient, correlation between promoting the Quranic culture and empowering the vulnerable stratum, was 542/0, in the second hypothesis, the correlation between the emphasis on religious identity and the empowerment of the vulnerable stratum was 319/0, as well as in The third hypothesis, the correlation between the emphasis on national identity and the empowerment of the vulnerable stratum, was obtained at a confidence level of 0.25, which was confirmed at 0.95. In the fourth hypothesis, the correlation between life skills training and empowerment of the vulnerable stratum was 0.571, which confirmed this level at a confidence level of 0.95. The conceptual framework of this research is based on the Talcott Parsons The Theory of Communicative Action and the Cultural Reproduction Theory of Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu.