Social and cultural capital impact to entrance to informal employment sector  (Case Study: Hamedans Chaparkhaneh trainer’s)

Naghdi, Asadollah; Taherinia, Alireza; Pakseresht, Soleiman; Isazadeh, Saeed

doi:10.22059/jisr.2014.52467

Social and cultural capital impact to entrance to informal employment sector (Case Study: Hamedans Chaparkhaneh trainer’s)

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

asadollah naghdi ¹

alireza taherinia ²

Soleiman Pakseresht ³

Saeed Isazadeh ⁴

¹ Assosiate Prof., Urban and Development Sociology, Buali Sina University, Iran

² M.A.,Social Research, Buali Sina University, Iran

³ Asistant Prof., Sociology, Buali Sina University, Iran

⁴ Assosiate Prof., Economics, Buali Sina University, Iran

10.22059/jisr.2014.52467

Abstract

One of the activities that can be found in all cities of Iran is auto-related services. Normally, this part of economic is the informal sector that includes of thousands of people working in this field. The urban space plays roles as a field for active forces. The above section has its own particular culture. Those who enter into the informal sector must accept its rules and follow. The neighborhood of Hamadan’s Chaparkhaneh contains a significant proportion of the jobs associated with car services (mechanical, smoother, etc.). With the unwritten rules and the subculture of the context, only people with certain characteristics can enter it. Then our study base on grounded theory with using of quantitative methods try entering into the urban space. The findings indicate that the two models of “optional” and “mandatory” to enter the system, mandatory to admit that the pattern of low cultural capital in the field of conscious individuals from various professions were deemed and the previous in the context of these jobs are unskilled. These individuals enter the labor market, family-ethnic social capital benefit. Pattern "optional" based on the context of cultural capital such as awareness of available jobs in the society and the previous skills relevant to employment in the field of social capital benefit.

Keywords

Chaparkhane of Hamedan

Cultural Capital

Grounded theory

Informal sector

Social capital