Explaining barriers to underdevelopment with emphasis on socio-cultural development with GT approach (Case study: Bilesvar city)
ghader dolatkhah
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Student
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Tahereh Mirsardoo
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Associate Professor and Faculty Member, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran
)
abdolreza adhami
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Associate Professor and Faculty Member, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
)
Keywords: underdevelopment, Keywords: development, Bilesvar city, socio-cultural barriers,
Abstract :
The present article explains the obstacles to the underdevelopment of the city of Bilesvar by emphasizing socio-cultural development and the understanding and interpretation of the people involved and natives of this region of development. The study method of this research is qualitative and grounded theory has been used to analyze and present the data. In this research, observational and documentary information was collected by the researcher and interview information was provided with 14 university professors, managers and experts in the social and cultural areas of the city have been collected. To determine the interviewees, qualitative-purposeful sampling method and theoretical saturation logic were used. Based on the findings, the causal conditions of this study were identified as ethnic and tribal context, lack of elitism, dependence on government and weakness of social capital. Ecological problems and low investment are also classified in terms of inpatient or underlying conditions. Unbalanced development, which includes other categories, was abstracted as the core category of this study, and conflict with the status quo and adaptation to the prevailing conditions as a category of interaction or strategy that perpetuates underdevelopment, poor quality of life and migration, consequences of such actions and reactions. The results of data analysis of the present study and the proposed background model show that the people of Bilesvar interpret the causes of underdevelopment as uneven and uncoordinated development that these unbalanced elements in general and along with each other have caused the phenomenon. Keywords: development, underdevelopment, socio-cultural barriers, Bilesvar city
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