Phenomenology of cultural barriers to development in Zanjan

Subject Areas : sociology

Leila Naderloo ¹ , Robabeh Pourjabali ² , Mahbooe Babaei ³

1 - Ph .D. University student, Economic Sociology of Development, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Iran, (Responsible Author). E-mail: [e-mail]
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University

Received: 2021-12-09 Accepted : 2022-04-05 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Globalization, Social capital, phenomenology, negative utilitarianism, alienation and consumerism,

Abstract :

The main purpose of this research is to study, understand and conceptualize the concept of development culture and barriers to development in Zanjan, which in terms of the purpose of applied research and in terms of method, qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. The data collection tool is a semi-structured interview. The average duration of each interview was 30 to 60 minutes. Klaizi analysis method was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the spread of globalization and the advancement of technology and the culture of misuse of development tools such as the Internet, satellite, cyberspace, etc., has shaken the foundation of families, tendency to individualism and negative utilitarianism, as well as the opposition between tradition and modernity, extreme prejudice. Severe prejudice, from alienation and consumerism, the occurrence of cultural changes to cultural development, Lack of social demands, lack of attention to legalism and correct social behavior, failure to realize social, cultural, symbolic, human, economic, political and ... Capital renaissance , Other cultural barriers to development were developed from the results of the study.the  Conflict of interest

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