A study of beggars characteristics and attitude of people towards the
AbstractThis research was based on the culture of poverty and social disorganization theories, using a survey method.The sample of the study included 330 beggars and 1000 non-beggars shiraz. The research findings revealedthat 64/4 percent of the beggars aged lower than 20 years and most of them were...
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| description | AbstractThis research was based on the culture of poverty and social disorganization theories, using a survey method.The sample of the study included 330 beggars and 1000 non-beggars shiraz. The research findings revealedthat 64/4 percent of the beggars aged lower than 20 years and most of them were mentally and physicallyhealthy. Most of them live in the suburbs of the city where the culture of poverty is prevalent. The results ofmultiple regression implied that there is meaningful relationship between the factors of "being religious,"marital status", "levels of education", "being rural or urban", "occupation" and "social class" of theparticipants and their attitudes toward the phenomenon of begging. It also shows that the factor of "degree ofreligion" explained the maximum amount of the dependent variable (tendency to help the beggars). variance(18/3%)∗ |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f063c347aed8420287067e1e3948c5102022-12-21T18:55:58ZfasUniversity of Isfahanجامعه شناسی کاربردی2008-57452322-343X2010-10-01213135168A study of beggars characteristics and attitude of people towards theHabib Ahmadi0 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Shiraz University AbstractThis research was based on the culture of poverty and social disorganization theories, using a survey method.The sample of the study included 330 beggars and 1000 non-beggars shiraz. The research findings revealedthat 64/4 percent of the beggars aged lower than 20 years and most of them were mentally and physicallyhealthy. Most of them live in the suburbs of the city where the culture of poverty is prevalent. The results ofmultiple regression implied that there is meaningful relationship between the factors of "being religious,"marital status", "levels of education", "being rural or urban", "occupation" and "social class" of theparticipants and their attitudes toward the phenomenon of begging. It also shows that the factor of "degree ofreligion" explained the maximum amount of the dependent variable (tendency to help the beggars). variance(18/3%)∗http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/jas/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-8&slc_lang=en&sid=1Keywords: beggar begging the cultural of poverty social disorganization theories |
| spellingShingle | Habib Ahmadi A study of beggars characteristics and attitude of people towards the جامعه شناسی کاربردی Keywords: beggar begging the cultural of poverty social disorganization theories |
| title | A study of beggars characteristics and attitude of people towards the |
| title_full | A study of beggars characteristics and attitude of people towards the |
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| title_short | A study of beggars characteristics and attitude of people towards the |
| title_sort | study of beggars characteristics and attitude of people towards the |
| topic | Keywords: beggar begging the cultural of poverty social disorganization theories |
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