Predicting the Intergenerational Social Mobility of Women based on the Components of Cultural Capital (the Level of Participation in Group Activities, the Level of Access to Cultural Resources and the Level of Cultural Tendencies)

Considering the importance of intergenerational social mobility in women, the present research was conducted with the aim of predicting the intergenerational social mobility of women based on the components of cultural capital.

This study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of correlation type. The research community of women in Arak city in 1400 was 17496 people, which was determined based on Cochran's formula, the sample size was 379 people, who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tool included demographic information form, researcher-made questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, and the aim was to measure social mobility. were intergenerational and cultural capital, whose face validity and content validity were confirmed by the opinion of experts and reliability was calculated for both parts of the questionnaire using the Cronbach's alpha method of 0.74. The data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient method and regression in SPSS software.

The findings showed that cultural capital (r=0.718) and all its three dimensions including social dimension (r=0.693), technology dimension (r=0.587) and individual dimension (r=0.561) It had a positive and significant relationship with the intergenerational social mobility of women (P<0.001). Also, cultural capital and all three of its components separately could predict 51.5 and 73.2 percent of the changes in intergenerational social mobility of women (P<0.001).

According to the findings of this research, with the increase of cultural capital, the intergenerational social mobility of women increases. Based on this, it is possible to provide the ground for the improvement and promotion of cultural capital and its components in order to witness the increase in the upward social mobility of women.