Abstract:
Participation is considered one of the important concepts in sociology that plays a significant role in today's world. Citizen participation in urban affairs is actually development from the people, by the people, and for the people. In other words, citizen participation in decision-making, planning, and all urban activities and affairs has come under the attention of managers, planners, and social development experts, especially in the field of urban planning and town planning. Given these points, the aim of this research is to design a system for identifying and classifying the components of citizen participation in urban affairs through the study and synthesis of existing research in the field of citizen participation in urban affairs using a meta-synthesis approach. The research method is qualitative, and the statistical population of this research consists of all scientific and research articles conducted in Iran on the subject of citizen participation in urban affairs from 2011 to the end of 2021. In total, 32 research articles were found, which were finally selected for final review after various examinations and refinements, resulting in 19 articles. The findings show that so far, work has been done on 6 categories and 48 concepts regarding the factors affecting citizen participation in urban affairs, and after multiple stages, a conceptual model related to this topic has been presented.
Machine summary:
According to the research findings regarding the factors affecting citizen participation in urban affairs so far, work has been done in 6 categories and 48 concepts, and after passing through various stages related to this subject, a conceptual model has been presented.
Pérez-delHoyo 10 / Quarterly Journal of Urban Sociological Studies, Year 14, Number 51, Summer 2024 Methodology This research, in terms of applied purpose and qualitative method, uses the meta-synthesis method based on the study of information resources in the field of factors affecting citizens' social participation.
Table No. 5 - Concepts and codes related to the category of citizen participation Row Category Concepts Source Frequency Social satisfaction, welfare (Malekshahi, Nikpour and Social factors, participation, awareness (Gholami, 1397); (Ahmadi and 14 1 social, social participation, social trust, Rezayi, 1400); (Hasanzadeh and Deh institutional trust, network of relations Cheshmeh, 1391); (Hashemian, Behravan and 14 / Quarterly Journal of Urban Sociological Studies, Vol. 14, No. 51, Summer 2024 social, social satisfaction, Noughani Dokht Bahmani, 1393); social security, belonging (Alami, 1399); (Yaghfouri, Tahmasbi, social, social health and Hatami, 1395); (Yaghfouri, Aghayi, Moazeni and Badli 1396); (Alizadeh Aqdam, Abbaszadeh, Koohi and Mokhtari 1390); (Sharbati, 1394); (Esmailzadeh, Salehpour and Esmailzadeh, 1393); (Yaghfouri, Hadiyani and Rafian, 1390); (Nir Pirahri and Tajik, 1395); (Ansari and Taj al-Din 1393); (Mohammadi, Bagheri and Heydari, 1392) (Malekshahi et al.
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