Authors : Elham Ghasemi, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani, Atefe Yadi and Hani Hosein zade
Abstract: The concept of sustainable development can be illustrated as continuity in view of developmental concepts that with the existence of financial, natural and social tries not only to expand the economical, social and cultural improvement but also get to the rights of the future people and social justice. It is a concept that takes providing the needs and people’s satisfaction accompanied with the increasing of human life quality into consideration. Social sustainability refers to the quality of societies and nature of social relationships and in some ways signifies internal relations of the society. Social sustainability as the essential part of the sustainable development, has drawn the attention of programmers and policy makers recently. Social sustainablility with qualitative concept includes a variety of sub-categories. Social coherence, social capital and social inclusion are sub-categories of social sustainability. Participation means to have a mutual commitment to do a particular activity in which the process of doing things is done cautiously. The simultaneous attention to the concepts of human sustainable development and using the social capital and altogether participation are the important affairs of social development. The major purpose of the sustainable development includes providing the vital needs, improving the quality of life, preserving and managing the eco-systems and a blissful and safer future. As a result, the goal of this study is establishing the sub-categories of social sustainability and establishing the role of social participation in its increase. The study was carried out with the use of the questionnaire and the statistical software, SPSS and the population of 7325 and also with the use of Kokran formula with the population of 95 people in Shahshahan neighborhood in Esfahan. The findings show that there’s a positive relationship between social sustainability and social participation that shows that social participation increases, so does the social sustainability.
Elham Ghasemi, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani, Atefe Yadi and Hani Hosein zade, 2016. A Survey on Effectiveness of Social Participating on Social Sustainability Dimentions (Case Study: Esfahan, Shahshahan Neighborhood). The Social Sciences, 11: 3103-3109.