The effects of social and cultural capital on collection and Separation of household waste (Case of study: Residents of the city of Urumia)
Subject Areas : Urban Sociological Studies
Keywords: Social Capital, Institutional trust, sense of community, separation and collection household waste, Cultural Capital, Social Cohesion, Urumia city,
Abstract :
Overpopulation, technology advancement, and changing consumption patterns have increased waste production from human activities. These materials have negative effects on the environment. The aim of this study was to determine residents’ participation in collection and separation of household waste and the effects that residents’ social and culturalcapital have on it in the city of Urumia in the province of Azarbayjan in Iran. The research method was survey and needed data were collected through questionnaires. The sample size was 612 who were selected via multi-stage cluster sampling. Moreover, analyzing data was carried out using the SPSS software. The results indicated that separation and collection of household waste was significantly related to social capital (which consisted of such items like sense of community, social cohesion, institutional trust (r=0.334), and also with cultural capital (that consisted of embodied cultural capital and objectified cultural capital (r=0.401). The results of stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that these variables altogher could explain 23/9 percent of the of variance of residents' participation in separation and collection household waste.