Sociological Explanation of the Consequences of Socio-Economic Inequality in the Western Provinces of the Country 
(Ilam, Kurdistan and Kermanshah cities)

KARKHANEH, FOROOZAN; yosofvand, Hasan Reza; Dehghan, Hossein

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scds 2022, 11(1): 149-174

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Sociological Explanation of the Consequences of Socio-Economic Inequality in the Western Provinces of the Country (Ilam, Kurdistan and Kermanshah cities)

FOROOZAN KARKHANEH

, Hasan Reza Yosofvand

, Hossein Dehghan

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

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Social inequality includes the lack or lack of access of people in human society to equal economic, cultural, educational, health, ethnic, etc. situations and opportunities. Societies suffering from socio-economic inequality are always faced with threats and anomalies, they face social damages and public dissatisfaction in individual and social dimensions. Therefore, the sociological investigation of this phenomenon is essential and considered as the goal of the present research. The research method, in terms of the purpose of the type of applied research, and in terms of the nature of the qualitative research method, has interviewed 20 informants in the named provinces by the phenomenological method and the tool for collecting interview information is unstructured deep, participatory observation and field notes. The research findings show that social inequalities, on one hand, cause poverty and on the other hand, they are the origin of social conflicts and contradictions. Therefore, the most important consequence of social inequalities are the class gap, as the creation of a disturbance in the order and cohesion and social solidarity of a society, which results in a feeling of relative deprivation and a sense of social injustice in people. The themes resulting from the lived experience of socio-economic inequality, which were extracted among the people living in the western provinces of the country, indicate the existence of discrimination and social and economic inequality in these provinces, which the statistics also confirm slow economic inequality leads to a decrease in social participation at the community level. Social inequalities have deepened as a result of global expansion and influence, and with the increase of social inequalities, the phenomenon of underdevelopment has clearly revealed its undesirable side effects.

Keywords: Economic inequality, Income, Poverty, Social damages, Social inequality

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2022/05/27 | Accepted: 2022/09/21 | Published: 2023/07/1

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