Classification of Rural Settlements by Emphasis on Components of Social Capital (Case Study: Tyrjrd District)

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

حسنعلی فرجی سبکبار ¹ , حجت رضایی ² , علی غلامی ³

1 - استادیار جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
2 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
3 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران

Received: 2014-04-12 Accepted : 2015-06-13 Published : 2015-05-22

Keywords: Social Capital, Rural Development, classification, Prometea, Delphi, Tyrjr,

Abstract :

    In addition to physical, marterial, human capital; we are dealing with the subject of social capital that is in the mutual interaction with a variety investments. By considering the concept of social capital and its measurement, planning authorities and community affairs should make more effective decisions for planning this section by rethinking. Thus with regard to the importance of this issue, this study has attempted to classify 12 villages in Tyrjd district by emphasizing on social capital indicator. Data are collected via field methods for this analytical-descriptive study. The statistical community of this research includes 1676 residing households in the villages of this district that a sample of 230 was selected by stratified sampling method. The pilot test, Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of 0.77 was obtained, showed the suitability of the research tools. In this study, the weighting parameters such as the Delphi technique and Prometea techniques have been used for classifying rural settlements. The results showed that by attention to 33 selected indexes for social capital; Azizabadi villages, Ahmadabad and Firouz Abad have the shortest distance to positive input flows and the farthest distance to negative output flows for components of social capital in the study area.