Sociological Explanation of Women's addiction in Poor Neighborhoods in Arak (2017)

Subject Areas : ‌Family

عباس خسروانی ¹ , Reza Ali Mohseni Mohseni ² , habib saborikhosroshahi ³

1 - Ph.D student of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Sociology, central Tehran Branch,Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor and Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Tehran East Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2018-08-20 Accepted : 2018-12-22 Published : 2019-02-06

Keywords: Women, Addiction, urbanization, Suburban Suburbs, Poverty Culture,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research is to identify and explain the sociological aspects of women's addiction in the suburbs of the city of Arak.For this purpose, five main components of the neighborhood, namely population density, population heterogeneity, inconsistency of goals and facilities, relationship with perpetrators and the culture of poverty, and their impact on the addiction of women living in these neighborhoods have been examined.A sample of 374 people was selected through a simple random sampling method of 14,450 women living in 9 sub-urban areas of Arak.The study showed that addiction in the suburbs of the city of Arak has a high level, and 5 indicators of these neighborhoods have been highly and highly evaluated.The results of regression analysis showed that the correlation coefficient of the regression model and drug use variables were 0.970 and 0.941.The results of path analysis indicated that the effect of factors such as location density, population heterogeneity, inconsistency of facilities and goals, relationship with delinquents and poverty culture on women addiction is significant.