Assessing the factors affecting lifestyle of rural women in Iran: A case study in fahimiyan village- Mamasani area
Paper Details
Assessing the factors affecting lifestyle of rural women in Iran: A case study in fahimiyan village- Mamasani area
Abstract
Women’s behavior and how they communicate with each other is certain patterns of culture and identity for the purpose of reflecting a particular style of women’s identity. Therefore, patterned behaviors introduce lifestyle as a critical issue. This study aims to investigate the factors affecting the lifestyle of rural women in Mamasani region from the function of Iran. Given that, due to the Bourdieu’s theory, lifestyle is conceptualized as an index which is based on the consumption variables including (music, book and movie consumption, ways of leisure, food habits and clothing consumption), the main hypothesis is that factors such as norms of gender, religion, media development, age, education and socio-economic status influence lifestyle of studied women. The research method is descriptive, based on cluster-sampling method, and the population includes all women from 15 to 65 years old who are living in Fahimiyan village in the Fars province, among them 390 subjects were selected based on Cochran formula. With codification of a researcher-made questionnaire and its distribution among the intended statistical population and analyzing them by multivariate regression analysis test, the results show that the most factors which affect women’s lifestyle is age and then their gender norms and beliefs.
Bourdieu P. 1984. Distinction, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press.
Bourdieu P. 2000. Pascalian meditation. Trans:Richard Nice .Oxford: Polity press.
Bourdieu P. 2012. Distinction; Social critique of the hobby judgment, Trans: Chavshyan H. Sales, Second edition. Tehran.
Brunsok R, Grunet G. 2004. Closing the gap between values and behavior a means-end theory of life style , Journal of Business Research 57, 670-665.
Ebrahimi GA, Behnoei Gadaneh A. 2009. Leisure and identity: A sociological study of the relationship between leisure and personal identity among young of Babolsar, Culture and Communication Studies Journal, Fifth edition, 14.
Estaji Z. 2006. The study of lifestyle among residents of Sabzevar city, Journal of Medical Sciences and Health Services Faculty of Sabzevar 13, 3.
Galobardes B. 2003. Trends in risk factors for lifestyle, related diseases by socioeconomic positioning Geneva, Switzerland, 1993 – 2000, American Journal of Public Health.
Giddens A. 2006. Modernity and identity, Trans:Movafaghiyan, N., Ney Press, Second edition. Tehran.
Hamidi N, Faraji M. 2008. Women’s lifestyle and clothing in Tehran, Journal of Cultural Research 1(1), 65-92.
Heiman A. 2000. The role of socioeconomic factors and lifestyle variables in attitude and the demand for genetically modified foods, Journal of Agribusiness.
Hennery L. 2001. Leisure and lifestyles of youth, National Youth Organization, Tehran.
Rex AK. 2000. Associations between lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factors, Journal of Adolescent Health.
Rossel J. 2008. Conditions for theexplanatory power of life styles, European Sociological Review 24, 2.
Stones R. 2002. Great thinkers of Sociology, Trans:Mirdamadi, M., Center Press, Second edition. Tehran.
Sullivan O, Katz-Gerro T. 2002. The Omnivore Thesis Revisited:Voracious Cultural Consumers. European Sociological Review.
Ali Shamsoddini, Sareh Shojaee , 2015. Assessing the factors affecting lifestyle of rural women in Iran: A case study in fahimiyan village- Mamasani area. J. Biodiv. Environ. Sci., 6(1), 670-675.
Copyright © 2015 by the Authors. This article is an open access article and distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license.