Pathology of Arak metropolitan urban development and its relationship with social health

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Maryam Khanmohammadi Hezaveh ¹ , Farzad Navabakhsh ² , Faranak Seyedi ³ , Jila Mashhadi Mashhadi ⁴ , Maryam tooski ⁵

1 - PhD student of Economic Sociology and Development,Facualty of Humanities, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University,Arak,Iran
2 - AssociateProfessor of Department of Sociology, Facualty of Humanities, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University,Arak,Iran(Supervisor1 and Corresponding Author)
3 - Assistant Professor of Department of Sociology, Facualty of Humanities, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University,Arak,Iran(Supervisor2)
4 - Assistant Professor of Department of Sociology, Facualty of Humanities, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University,Arak,Iran(Advisor1)
5 - Assistant Professor of Department of Sociology, Facualty of Humanities, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University,Arak,Iran(Advisor2)

Received: 2022-05-07 Accepted : 2022-06-12 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: social participation, Urban development, social health, social integration, Social Prosperity,

Abstract :

This study was conducted with the aim of "pathology of urban development of Arak metropolis and its relationship with social health" in two parts: qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative section, based on the opinions of experts, which included psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists and social specialists and senior municipal managers, they were purposefully selected and a questionnaire on urban development injuries was prepared and compiled. The questionnaire was then given to 384 citizens over the age of 18 living in Arak (citizens of Arak) and they were asked to comment on the importance of each injury as a 5-choice range (very low-very high) in the questionnaire. To make. The results obtained in this section showed that the ambiguity of the mission and organizational goals (structural damage) , the existing organizational chart (structural damage) , not using the views of the client (underlying damage) , lack of knowledge of work standards (behavioral damage) , lack Employee awareness and knowledge (behavioral harm) , lack of citizen participation in urban management (underlying harm) , inability to provide income sources (structural harm) , organizational culture in employee performance (behavioral harm) and lack of employee performance monitoring (behavioral harm) Damages are urban development. Then, the relationship between urban development harms and social health was distributed among the same 384 citizens over the age of 18 living in Arak (citizens of Arak) and the hypotheses were examined and analyzed. The results showed that there is a relationship between urban development of Arak metropolis with social integration (solidarity)