The impact of economy and social variables on elites cultural tendency on migration to developed countries.
Subject Areas : FamilySeyed Khalil Hosseini 1 , Habib Sabori khosroshahi 2 , Saied Maadani 3
1 - PhD student in Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: migrant tendency, economic and cultural facts, cultural elites,
Abstract :
In this research has been tried to study the impact of economic and social components on the tendency of cultural elites to migrate to developed countries. Immigration of cultural elites to developed countries has always been important issues in society of Iran. This research is designed to study the attitude of cultural elites for immigration to developed countries. The theoretical framework based on “Pull and Push” theory. This study tries to examine the theory in four aspects including economic, political, social and cultural dimensions of immigrant motivations. The methodology of the research is mixed of quantitative and qualitative methods. The statistical sample covered professors, Ph.D and M.A students of universities of Tehran and 405 cases has been chosen as a sample size from universities. In addition, 30 cases are selected for deep interview for qualitative method as well. The finding shows attitude of cultural elites are related to all four aspects of immigrant motivations. The cases evaluated the developed countries for immigration has been evaluated appropriate and besides their country of origin has been evaluated inappropriate situation. It hints the theory of pull and push as a suitable explanation of immigrant elites. The multiple coefficient certainty explained 23 percent variances of cultural elite attitudes as a dependent variable.
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