A Sociological Survey on Relationship between Quality of Life and Social Exclusion

This article deals with the relationship between quality of life and social exclusion. Social exclusion as the dependent variable of this study consists of four components of social participation, normative integration, access to social rights and material deprivation. Survey research is the method used in this research and questionnaires were used to collect data. The size of sample was 384 persons. The authors used multi-stage random cluster sampling to select their statistical population among residents of the 18 areas in Tehran. Experimental findings show that more than half (50/7) of them suffer from high level of social exclusion and 40/8 percent of them could be categorized in the middle level. Also, there is a covariation between social exclusion and quality of life and the improvement in terms of housing, facilities and utilities, urban services and transport, recreation, security and safety, which means that with the improvement of the quality of life, the level of social exclusion will reduce.