Evaluating Social Sustainability Through Social And Cultural Barriers: A Case Study Of Bashagard County, Iran

The main purpose of this study was to design a model of sustainable social development based on social barriers in Bashagard County. The research method of the present study is a combination (quantitative-qualitative). In this study, the population of Bashagard city in the form of urban and rural areas was examined. Morgan table was used to determine the sample size and due to the infinity of the statistical population, the maximum number of samples is 384 people. In the qualitative section, 20 professors and experts in the field of urban and social sustainability development in universities (10 people) and the Cultural Heritage Organization (10 people) were interviewed. Data obtained from questionnaires using software SPSS and LISREL were processed and analyzed in a Windows environment at two levels descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. In order to analyze the data and determine the levels and rank of Bashagard city, a combination of different statistical techniques and descriptive indicators were used. Then, in order to design an appropriate model of sustainable development, structural equation modelling was used. Excel and SPSS statistical software were used for data analysis and LISREL software was used for structural equations and the model obtained from the study. The standard deviation of the findings also shows that the scattering rate of response to research items is above average (0.050). The output of the t-test shows that the calculated t-value (8.09) is greater than the standardized t-test of 1.96 and they are located in the H1 region and it can be said that at a significant level of 95% the research hypothesis is confirmed. This means that social factors have been effective in the underdevelopment of Bashagard County.