The study of the relationship between social and cultural capital and the tendency to immigration from Khoy

Subject Areas : sociology

Mohammad Abbaspour ¹ , Samad Sabagh ²

1 - کارشناسی ارشد جامعه‌شناسی، واحد تبریز، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تبریز- ایران.
2 - استادیار گروه جامعه‌شناسی، واحد تبریز، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تبریز- ایران (نویسنده مسئول).

Received: 2018-05-24 Accepted : 2019-05-01 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: Social capital, Cultural capital, Key words: migration, the consumption of cultural commodities,

Abstract :

Immigration has been considered as a form of geographical movementof the population, occurring among two geographical units. The movementmust necessarily lead to a change in the usual residence of the individualfrom the origin or his residence before immigration to destination or newresidence. The present study aims to study the relationship betweencultural– social capital with the tendency to immigration from Khoy. Theresearch method is correlational and it is a practical study in purpose. Thestatistical population includes all citizens of khoy between 26 -64 yearsold. According to official statistics this city is divided to 2 areas (eacharea divided in 10 sub-areas), with the first area having a population of29486 families and the second area having a population of 27605families. Totally population includes 57091 families and 200958 people.The sample is 384 citizens (from the families) of khoy and the samplingmethod is incidental clustering. This study revealed that, there is apositive and significant relationship between the social relations andsocial cohesion and amount of tendency to immigration from Khoy.There is not a positive and significant relationship between the tendencyto use cultural goods and amount of tendency to immigration from Khoy.There is a negative and significant relationship between the consumptionof cultural commodities and tendency to immigration from Khoy.