Structural Model of Factors Contributing to Social Violence in Boroujerd City Using Dimatel Technique(2020)

Violence is one of the most important factors which is considered a serious threat to health, order, development, social capital, security and rights of individuals in the society and has irreparable negative consequences. Based on this, the present study seeks to provide a structural model of the factors contributing to social violence.

The present research method is of quantitative type, and questionnaire is the tool used in it. The technique utilized in the present study is Dimatel technique, which according to this technique, it is based on pairwise comparisons, using the opinions of experts in extracting the factors in the system, systematically structuring them and applying the principles of graph theory, provides a hierarchical structure of existing factors in the system along with the mutual relationships of influence of the above- mentioned elements. In this way, the intensity of the above- mentioned relationships is identified in a quantitative way. The statistical population consisted of 15 specialists and experts who mainly conducted studies on social violence and dealt with social pathology, were selected.

The findings indicated that social violence was the most affected by the variable of ethnicity with 0.972, followed by the variables of religious beliefs with 0.863, media with 0.547, deprivation with 0.304, fatefulness with 0.203 and finally traditionalism with 0.151 respectively impacted social violence. Conclusions and Recommendations: Given the research findings, the higher the level of ethnic and tribal prejudices and the more deprived the society in terms of access to social opportunities, the greater the tendency to social violence. The research strategy is to try to correct and replace marginal and delinquent subcultures such as some tribal ethnic beliefs and ethnic prejudices that justify individual violence. This is also possible through public education, and it is noteworthy that coercive forces are not able to suppress and eliminate it.