A sociological study central neighborhood and social participation

Subject Areas : ‌Family

sara  monirifar ¹ (Ph.D Student, Social Issues, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan Branch, Iran)
reza  esmaili ² (Assistant Professor of Management and Cultural Planning, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Iran)
Mansour  Haghighatian ³ (Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan Branch, Iran.)
hossein  imani ⁴ (Associate Professor of Social Development Studies at Tehran University and Head of the Institute of Social Studies and Research of Tehran University, Iran)

Received: 2017-07-09 Accepted : 2017-09-17 Published : 2017-11-22

Keywords: &quot, social participation &quot, , &quot, social confidence&quot, , &quot, neighborhood management&quot, , &quot, neighborhood bondage&quot, ,

Abstract :

Abstract Title: A sociological study central neighborhood and social participation The current study investigates the pivotal neighborhood and social cooperation. The aim of this design is to fathom and interpret senior administrators and the informed people with regards to social participation and the neighborhood management. The methodology of the study is the consecutive combination which includes both qualitative and quantitative methods. Firstly, a number of 22 administrators and informed people were interviewed regarding the concept of participation and neighborhood management and a theoretical absolution was obtained. Given the findings of the qualitative data and the theories posed, a theoretical model was designed. In the quantitative section, the assumptions of the study were tested. The number of population of the study is 487. The findings are indicative of the fact that the degree of participation was at the lowest level according to Arneshtain. The majority of the interviewees regarded attendance in the training sessions as part of social participation . Based on the results of path analysis, we can say that social confidence, neighborhood management and neighborhood bondage have had the highest impact on social cooperation.