چکیده:
Rural reforms have been an important part of the post-revolutionary government policy. The government implemented various rural development programs to develop rural areas – mostly with an ideologically populist and egalitarian-oriented character. Development policies in general and rural reforms in particular are considered as a major process towards weakening the rigidity of rural social structure and producing number of positions and openness circumstances. This paper intends to explore the impact of the post-revolutionary rural programs on the occupational mobility of rural people through using ex-post-facto comparative method in the selected villages. It concludes that the mobility tended to be higher in the villages that received the most rural programs than those which received fewer or no programs. There was a higher inclination to self-recruitment in intra-generational mobility compared with intra-generational mobility. Most of the observed mobility, both upward and downward, was short range and oriented towards the adjacent category.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Development policies in general and rural reforms in particular are considered as a major process towards weakening the rigidity of rural social structure and producing number of positions and openness circumstances.
Several dimensions are considered in this paper: the degree to which social positions of the villagers has been affected by rural development programs; how much this change has been influenced by the villagers’ socio-economic background (previous socio-economic positions) and the developmental potential of the villages; and the extent to which people moved from their original class.
Research Findings The findings indicated that occupational mobility, in general, tended to be higher in the villages that received the most rural development programs than in those which received fewer or no programs.
The higher degree of movement, both intra - and inter-generational between the ‘farmer’ and ‘farmer and livestock breeder’ categories, particularly in villages of a wider rural reforms, could be due to the land redistribution policy after the revolution, a scarcity of opportunities in the other categories, or the fact that these two groups were by far largest.
This could mean that, however, the data revealed the higher the number of rural programs the greater the mobility, but a significant the villagers did not change their job status.
260-74 (Note: N refers to total numbers of the sample population) Table (3): The comparison of the occupational status of the respondents with the status of their father in the selected villages (intra-generational mobility) (%) Village no.