Identifying the social, cultural and economic causes affecting divorce among experts and informants ("Tasmim" divorce application system) in Birjand city

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

3 Master's student in Sociology, Payam Noor University, North Khorasan, Bojnord

Abstract

The family is the most important social unit that has many effects on the health of the society and the continuity of childbearing. The first pillar of family formation is marriage and the most vulnerable issue for both the family and the society is divorce. Considering the importance of this topic, the current research was conducted with the aim of studying the social, cultural and economic causes affecting divorce among the experts, the most effective and the most informed of the tasmim system in the city of Birjand in the year 1400. This research is of an applied type and based on the type The approach has a qualitative approach.
The studied community is a range of experts, professors and psychologists, judges and other people involved in the issue of divorce, who were investigated in the form of a targeted sampling of 19 people by the in-depth interview method and data analysis was also done with the help of MAXDA software. And it was done based on three methods of free, central and selective coding proposed in the grounded theory method. Finally, 26 main categories have been found according to the subject including social and cultural causes in the field of divorce, which according to regional, cultural conditions and religion of South Khorasan province, some of the most discussed causes of divorce among the sample population include addiction, infidelity, economic issues such as financial problems, forced and imposed marriages, adherence to the traditional culture of marriage and divorce,

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