"A Sociological Study of the Impact of Social Capital on Teachers' Consumption Pattern in Tehran"

Teachers, according to social science scholars, and in line with education documents, play an important role in reproducing the paradigm. In the present study, we analyzed the patterns of consumption among teachers in order to influence cultural reproduction and generation transfer. The research method is quantitative in terms of data collection method and in terms of the type is applied and also its method is quantitative-survey method. Statistical population included all bound teachers (35797 teachers) working in elementary and secondary schools in Tehran in 1397-98 by using cluster sampling method, 400 teachers were selected as the statistical sample for the study. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with 38 questions. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 70% and the data analysis was done using regression, variance analysis and path analysis with SPSS software. The findings of the study showed that social capital with 25% had the highest impact on the pattern of teachers' consumption based on the final Veblen model. Also, social capital variables are correlated with end-use patterns. The adjusted coefficient of determination according to the type of final consumption pattern (Veblen) is equal to 0/263 and the level of final consumption pattern (Danleoie) equal to 0/27 are explained by independent variables. The results show that consumption pattern among Tehran teachers is inversely related to social capital and its three dimensions and, there is a significant relationship among the underlying factors of age and sex with final consumption, and teaching and marital status with final consumption.