جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "امور شهری" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

The research aims to study about influential social and economic factors on citizens participation in urban affairs related to municipality among citizens who are older than 18 years and are resident in Shoushtar. It is about citizen's participation dimensions and its factors. Its theoretical literature is based on psychological and sociological perspectives. Research method is survey. Also documents and library sources and structured questionnaire as information gathering instrument have been used. Cluster sampling method has been used and 373 have been determined as population sample by using Cochran formula. Findings show that there are positive, direct and significant relationship between citizen's satisfaction, social trust, feeling of social belonging, and citizen's awareness and income as independent variables and dependent one. On the other hand, the more satisfaction, trust, awareness, feeling of belonging and citizens income, the more citizens participation. The findings approve the different participation between employed and unemployed. Also, the average score of social participation among different classes statistically and based on F test is significant. That is, rate of participation in middle and upper classes are more, meanwhile, the period of residency in city is so important variable so that the more period of residency in city, the more citizens social participation.

The significant development of urbanization in recent years, especially in mega-cities, have brought about specific issues in urban life. In such circumstances, urban life needs some characteristics and requirements. One of the most important requirements is awareness and knowledge of citizens about responsibilities of citizenship which show the importance of "Citizenship Education". The research method of the study is survey. The sample size included 437 people who were selected via Stratified Sampling Method. The results of study indicate that the citizen's awareness in dimensions of social, cultural, economic and political responsibilities is average. In social dimension respondents show the highest level of knowledge. The knowledge of people in economic dimension was significantly different in terms of gender. Component assessment of each dimension, suggests that in the Social dimension, the most awareness is about (necessity of help to promote healthy, dynamic and happy city). In cultural aspect (the necessity of respecting the ethnic groups), in economic aspect (the necessity of urban duties) and in political aspect (the ways of choosing municipal authorities) had the highest degree. Background variables are significantly related to the dimensions of the awareness about the responsibilities and awareness is low among youth and significantly different from parents ' awareness.

This article probesto answer that which are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of citizens’ participation in civic affairs in Tehran? This is achieved through studying social, cultural, economic, politicalmanagerial, legal, and spatial-physical aspects of the subject -- providing the basis upon which planners can formulate strategies and models for citizens’ participation in short-, medium-, and long-term plans. Benefiting from a qualitative approach and relying on in-depth interviews and open questions, information on social, cultural, economic, political-managerial, legal, and spatial physical aspects of citizen’s participation has gathered with the aim of providing a SWOT analysis. A statistic community consist of 60 prefessors, urban planning and social science experts, and public sector officials were selected from the several University of Tehran and Socio- Cultural Bureau of Tehran Municipality have been selected and Studied with aimed and accessable sampling. Findings and The Results indicated that citizens’ participation in Iran specially in Tehran faces with the number of structural, socio-cultural, political-managerial, legal, and juridical impediments. Despite the current impediments various strengths and oppor tunities for stabilishment and empower of citizens’s participation in civic Affairs exist for there more weaknesses and thresats of participation from the citizens and city management has affected the partiction. yet the neccessity citizens practipation in the affairs is not be recognized by the Urban managers and cibizens. The citizens participation is mostly superfacial and symbolic.

New millennium started while more than half of world population lives in cities. This issue requires attendance of the citizens in affairs managemanet along with necessity of equipment, demands and needs. The important point is barriers and prohibiting factors which prevent participation. This article intends to answer these questions by reliance on research findings in 2009 that how much the Tehran citizens tend to participate in urban affairs and what factors they follow and what their contripation in urban affairs?

It’s a survey using questionnaire and interview to gather information. For sampling, districts of the city were classified in terms of economic and social differences and then 1370 families were studied on the basis of population of each group in 22 districts of Tehran.

Reinfocement of participation requires motivation, feeling of attachment to others and societies. The more the scope of attachment to city and district, the more the tenency of person to participation n urban affairs. Reinforcement of participation equires awareness, trust, satisfaction feeling and tendency to cooperation with urban associations and establishing strong relationship between citizens and urban managers. There should be trust and experience of cooperation with urban associations so that people become satisfied in addition to better performance. When the people are not sufficiently aware and are not informed of the strategies, they will not be satisfied with associations relating to ubran affairs and consequently, there will be no other participation. Although extent of participation of the persons in Tehran urban affairs is law, there are some differences between the districts.

Participation in urban affairs can be regarded as external requirements of the urban problems which are realized by democratizing the society, decentralizing and empowering different classes. In this regard, organized, Formal and planned models will be the best strategies along with spontaneous participations.