%0 Journal Article %T Analysis of Social Capital and its Impacts on Quality of Life of Citizens Case Study: Neighborhood of Miyandoab City %J Human Geography Research %I University of Tehran %Z 2008-6296 %A Mousavi, Mir Najaf %A Hasani, Mohammad %A Manouchehri, Ayoub %D 2013 %\ 12/22/2013 %V 45 %N 4 %P 197-220 %! Analysis of Social Capital and its Impacts on Quality of Life of Citizens Case Study: Neighborhood of Miyandoab City %K Miyandoab City %K quality of life %K Social capital %K Spatial analysis %R 10.22059/jhgr.2013.36143 %X Extended AbstractIntroductionRegarding only physical aspects by engineering approach, regardless of social and economicvalues and goals, made philosophy of cities as a place to live faced with serious doubts. Thereare criticisms against this type of planning that focuses on the goals and values. Prevalentthinking about "livable city" has made a major revision of the goals and methods of planningand alternative thinking to deal with this phenomenon. This is because of profound changes incontemporary urban areas such as changes in housing styles, leisure, communication, etc. In thepast half century, there were changes in decision-making procedures and policies in urbanplanning from the foundation. No way is left except a fundamental reconsideration of thecontent and methods of rational planning. Therefore, city has an index of human life in the formof structured and methodical. Humans interact with their environment, such as containerizedwithin the urban environment. This interaction requires the provision of basic aspects of life inorder to make a sustainable living environment in the city. Such a change in the attitude ofurban life led to new concepts in the literature of urban planning. Following this process, theconcept of quality of life was stated for the first time in 1966 in a book titled "Social Indicators"by Raymond Bauer. Since of quality of life is a multifaceted concept, partially influenced bytime and individual and social values, it includes objective and external, conceptual and internalaspects. Each of the studies has focused on aspects of quality of life. In previous studies, it is  one of the components of less interest in the effects of social capital on quality of life. Thepurpose of this paper is to analyze quality of life and effectiveness of social capital theory. InOther words, this study has tried to analyze the effects of social capital on quality of life ofcitizens. In other words, the main question is, therefore, whether is there any differencesbetween social capital and quality of life in neighborhoods of Miyandoab? What is theconnection there?MethodologyAccording to the research objectives and components, the type of this research is practical andthe methodology is descriptive- analytical. A survey of 30 neighborhoods in Miyandoab,according to the administrative division - is political. Data collection tool is quenstionnaires forthe study of the relationship between social capital and quality of life that includes 39 indicatorsof social capital as independent variables and 35 indicators of of quality of life as the dependentvariable. Survey method is used to collect the data. The instrument used was a questionnairestudy. Since the aim was to investigate all City Neighborhoods separately, we used stratifiedrandom sampling method. First, based on the total population the number of samples wasspecified. Cronbach's alpha was used to obtain the reliability of the research instrument. Thevalue of 0.77 for the tool suggests that this tool has very good reliability. To obtain validity ofthe questionnaire we used for factor analysis by KMO. KMO value of 0.75 for this tool indicatsa good level of validity. Some of the information has been gathered from the Population Censusof Housing, data from annals, organizations, and institutions concerned. For data analysisTOPSIS model was used to evaluate the ability of neighborhoods of Miyandoab City. Therelationships between the variables were also tested using inferential statistical tests such ascorrelation, multiple regression and path analysis. The statistical population was 123,081 peopleaccording to the 1390 census. Cochran's formula was used to determine sample size. Thesample size was with 95% confidence for the 382 questionnaires. This number is collected as apercentage of the neighborhoods population.Results and DiscussionUsing TOPSIS model with entropy weighting method to rank the City NeighborhoodsMiyandoab was revealed to be in the venture capital community. Based on the studies doneneighborhoods of 20, 22, 17, 29, 7, and 26 were identified as the most desirable neighborhoods.These neighborhoods in terms of components of social capital were the highest in the CityNeighborhoods of Miyandoab. Neighborhoods of 23, 16 and 3 as marginal neighborhoods havebeen identified as low levels in social capital.TOPSIS model has also been used to assess quality of life in urban neighborhoods ofMiyandoab. For this assessment, the first step is weighting demographic characteristics,education, leisure, engagement and solidarity, health and safety, economic, physical, andenvironmental infrastructure. Neighborhoods utility rates were determined for each of theindicators. Studies show that neighborhoods 20, 7 and 22 as neighborhoods with high levels ofsocial capital than other neighborhoods have now high quality of life. Results show that when  the components of social capital in the neighborhoods of the situation are favorable, theseneighborhoods are more desirable in terms of of quality of life. According to what was stated inthe discussion of social capital, this can be concluded that neighborhoods in terms of socialcapital indicators are more favorable thanin terms of quality of life. As a result, there is a directrelationship between these two factors and it can be recommended for future researches.ConclusionWhat can be concluded from this study is that the way of life of local communities are desirable.In this study it was found that the neighborhoods in terms of social capital indicators have morefavorable position and in terms of quality of life are better. What is the social capital that oneneighborhoon more favorable relative to others. One of those is dating of neighborhoods and thenumber of years that the residents living in those neighborhoods. Homogeneity of theseneighborhoods in economic, social and cultural aspects has led citizens to have more socialinteraction. These characteristics have led to a general index of social capital such as trust,cooperation, and adjacency relations. As a result, indirect effect is to create a better quality oflife. According to the results, it can be proposed that the preservation of local communitiesdating can be attempted A new city neighborhood has been appeared in recent decades, becausemost of these neighborhoods residents are young couples. In terms of social capital indicatorsare these new neighborhoods are weaker than the neighborhoods anymore, and the quality oflife of these neighborhoods is lower than others. %U https://jhgr.ut.ac.ir/article_36143_4c5541cdd1a4fac98ef93aec6915c65e.pdf