Evaluating family conflicts in Ardebil (Iran) with a comparative approach toward downtown and suburban areas

Abstract

Urbanization is recognized just by statistical urban growth and increase in population rate of cities; but, according to sociologist of Chicago school such as, Zimel, and Park urbanization is a new style of living. Along with the rapid development of urbanization changes in Ardebil that began since becoming the capital of the province, it led to the development of marginalization and settlement of non-urban population and the unemployed and the rural people of such areas in this city. Thus in this research we attempted to examine the incident of family conflict in Ardebil. The research method is descriptive-analytic and a survey and data collection has been done by documentary studies, field work, and data were obtained from relevant government agencies and by means of a questionnaire and an interview. Random sampling has been used and among the suburban areas of Ardebil, Mir-Ashraf neighborhood has been selected as the sample of the study and in order to estimate the sample size, Cochrane questionnaire has been randomly distributed among the sample households. Also, to achieve the results of the objective, official statistics have been utilized. Excel software was used to draw the graphs and charts and the analysis of the data has been done using the SPSS software and for mapping ARG GIS was utilized.