Investigating the attitudes of Meybodi citizens towards air pollution and social factors affecting it

Nowadays, neglecting the environment and overlooking its problems is spreading rapidly. Efforts to develop and urbanize and ensure human well-being have disadvantages and benefits for humans and nature, and one of the disadvantages caused by society and its members is air pollution. In this research, the theoretical approaches of Bourdieu's lifestyle and cultural capital, Castells social networks theory and the biosphere of Habermas and others have been used. Since citizens can be effective in reducing air pollution with their attitudes and behaviors, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of Meybod citizens towards air pollution and social factors affecting it. This research is a descriptive, analytical and survey type and the research population consisted of citizens 16 years and older, of which, using Cochran formula, 420 people were chosen via a multi-stage random sampling procedure. Findings showed that there was a significant relationship between the variables of age, marital status, education level, residence status, income and citizens 'attitudes toward air pollution, but there was no relationship between gender and citizens' attitudes toward air pollution. There was also a positive and direct relationship between lifestyle, cultural capital, social networks and a significant negative relationship between profit-orientedness and the dependent variable. The results of regression analysis showed that the remaining variables in the regression model determined 19% of the variance of the dependent variable and the variables of lifestyle, profit orientation and age, respectively, played the most important role in the regression model. The results showed that the citizens of Meybodi put an emphasis on the priority of preserving the environment in spite of income and profit from working in factories, and also the category of lifestyle has a greater share and weight in explaining the dependent variable, which if strengthened together with cultural capital can change the attitude of citizens towards air pollution and environmental protection.