Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mansoureh Azam Azadeh ¹
• Maryam Ghazinejad ¹
• Arezou Sadeghi Velni ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Alzahra University, Iran

² Master of Social Science Research, University of Alzahra, Iran

Abstract

World has been the witness of population growth and urbanization, especially in developing countries in the arrival of the new millennium. This process has been lead to the development of urbanization, expanding and complicating social relations metropolis. The emergence of such town with urban problems, such as the expansion of marginalization, raises social charges and a total reduction of social security. In these cities, particularly women are more concerned about social security. This study seeks to examine the factors affecting social security of women living in two neighborhoods in Vanak and Sarasiab. Research theoretical model is composed (inspired by the views Sampson, Skogan, Giddens, Parsons and Pin,…) of a set of variables that influence the feeling of security in neighborhood investigated. These variables include the variable of neighborhood as the independent variable of this paper and the order and trust for splicer variable of the neighborhood position and the feeling of the security. In the aim of empirical research methods, we have used the survey method and questionnaire technique as a means of gathering information. The sample population consisted of 270 women residing in two neighborhoods in Vanak and Sarasiab. The results of experimental study show the differences in women’s feeling of security according to the local situation. In the both neighborhood, neighborhood position in the space-physical and nonspace-social and interpersonal trust dimensions impact on female residents feeling safe and what makes the difference in feeling of security in the two neighborhoods is the effect of physical discipline (Beta: %51), generalized trust (Beta: %15) and fundamental trust (Beta: %10) in the neighborhood Vanak and social order (Beta: %27) in the neighborhood Sarasiab.

Keywords

• feeling of security
• neighborhood position
• order
• trust.

Main Subjects

• Sociology