The Conceptual Model and Theoretical Aspects to Measure Quality of Life in Tehran

QOL (Quality of Life) is a common concepts in the field of human sciences, from sociology and health to urban management and psychology. This sense when seen from the perspective of urban planning, would be tied up with concepts such as city, citizenship and urban planning. Despite all extensive efforts and diverse has been done in the world and in the last two decades, in Iran to evaluate this concept, QOL still constitutes as an important variable in studies of urban planning that has not been precisely defined and its assessing has always been a practical challenge in the field of urban management. In last few years, as trends growing and polling organizing in the city and the citizens, special attention is paid to the quality of urban life. This article try to get a picture of these efforts in the specific area in QOL, that talk about urban quality of life and more precisely the quality of life in urban neighborhoods. The basic aim of this paper is to describe the process of conceptualizing and introduce a tool to assess the quality variable of urban life. In 1395 this tool was used to assess quality of life in each neighborhoods of Tehran and its construct validity was studied according to data we found and statistical analysis that was done. This article explain theoretical aspects of the process and give you the results. To conceptualize the notion of quality of urban life, before anything it seems to be necessary that this concept clarified according to more general concept of quality of life. So we referred to the literature of this concept and try to recognize its dimensions and components. We use theoretical and conceptual framework, and with deductive reasoning and generalization, theoretical definition and concept has been Reviewed. To select conceptual framework, after reviewing the macro theory of Bourdieu's theory of social capital and Parsons social systems as a macro theory and concepts related to those concepts such as city, neighborhood, citizenship, studied quality of life in middle the theoretical framework was built and was criticized by some experts. Finally concepts of social capital and social order, such as distributive justice, neighborhood identity, security, social participation, social trust and otherwise as components of quality of life in Tehran were selected that this article would explain each one of them and it studies their relations.