Document Type : Research Paper
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Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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associate professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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assistant professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
This research aims to explain the mechanism of poverty and deprivation reproduction in Isfahan's 14th district, a region that is considered a center of economic, cultural, and institutional inequalities. Given the lack of a coherent model for simultaneously understanding the social and institutional factors of this deprivation, the present study, using qualitative methods and grounded theory methods based on the Strauss and Corbin model, examines the empirical analyses and perceptions of residents and presents a local model that is appropriate to the context of the region.
The results showed that the quagmire of inconsistent policies, ineffective governance, and the lack of a scientific system of needs assessment and monitoring are the main causal conditions for the continuation of deprivation. In the context of background conditions, factors such as family breakdown, social and cultural disintegration, a safe space of abnormality, and the cycle of exploitation have made the social structure of the region susceptible to the reproduction of harms. Intervening factors also included the inefficiency of education and the chaos of the activities of non-governmental groups, which have led to an increase in dropout, the creation of dependence, and the strengthening of clientelism.Existing strategies have largely taken the form of limited efforts at educational and social empowerment by non-governmental groups; however, the observed consequences—including spirals of deprivation, identity isolation, and inconsistent financial patterns—indicate that these strategies have failed to halt the cycle of deprivation and, in some cases, have even perpetuated it.
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