Investigating the Erosion of Women's Social Capital and Its Consequences in the Family (Case Study: Broken Families in Kashan City)

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master of Sociology, Shahed University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Shahed University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

10.22055/qjsd.2024.23706.1534

Abstract

For the erosion of social capital and the disintegration of the family, enjoying the views of theorists of social capital such as Coleman, Putnam, Fukuyama and Bourdieu and examine some of the assumptions related to disruption of family as social anomie, pressure, relative deprivation theoretical framework was developed.indicators of social trust, social support, social participation, social cohesion and social interaction as measures of erosion of social capital were selected.The six hypotheses were formulated and the method of survey questionnaires validated with 385 divorced and not divorced women city of Kashan, the random sampling method were selected, tested, and the erosion of social capital in two groups. The results showed that the relationship between the erosion of social capital for women and disruption of families is significant, the higher the erosion of social capital for women, the greater the disruption of their families would be greater still. All dimensions of social capital and disruptive family relationship is significant; the erosion of social trust, social support, social participation, social cohesion and social interactions divorced and not divorced women, the disruption of their family also increases. Based on the interviews, too, can be the consequences of the problem in question, such as follows: No supervisor children, child abuse in different ways, addiction, ran away from home and committed suicide.

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Quarterly Journal of Social Development (Previously Human Development)
Volume 19, Issue 1 - Serial Number 74
Vol. 19, No. 1, Autumn, 2024
December 2024
Pages 157-186

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