The Place of Culture in the Economic Development of Guilan Region with Emphasis on Social Factors

Progress in the cultural context and attention to culture are important steps in achieving development, and achieving economic development is considered as a requirement for development dependent on cultural elements in the social context of an ecosystem. According to the theoretical framework of functionalism of cultural needs, they provide the grounds for any economic action in the direction of development, so that meeting the needs, defining new needs and in the hierarchy of needs, function, new concepts to the socio-economic structure of society. Culture also has the function of satisfying human needs in social life and adapting human beings to the environment around them, and the various components of culture participate closely in each other and in fulfilling this desire. The present article is a developmental research that has been done by documentary method during the years1394 to1397 in Guilan province. According to the findings and results of cultural research, especially popular culture, it has a special place in development, but not all aspects of popular culture in Guilan do not talk much about development. Rituals play a key role in all economic processes. The destiny of Guilani's legends cannot guide the economic activities that underlie economic development.