Integration of the Rural Community into the Market Economy (The Place of Rural Tourists in Hawraman)

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1 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

2 گروه جامعه‌‌شناسی، دانشکدۀ علوم انسانی و اجتماعی، دانشگاه کردستان، سنندج، ایران

10.22059/jrd.2024.382464.668878

Abstract

The current research aims to evaluate and examine the role of rural itinerants in the integration of rural society into the market economy. The approach of this research is based on the views raised in economic sociology and inspired by the theories of Polanyi, Granwater, Smelser, Swedberg, Slater and Tonkis.
The narratives of 15 itinerants in the villages of the Hawraman region of Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces were analyzed due to a paucity of information. Utilizing the principles of Clandinin and Conley’s narrative research, data from semi-structured interviews were acquired through the snowball method and analyzed using thematic analysis. The results were obtained in the form of five secondary categories: Nomadism as a network of social relationships, rural nomadism and local development, urban-rural links and the role of rural nomads in them, the expansion of communication and transportation and the reduction of the presence of nomads, and the expansion of the role of capital and money in villages and the role of nomads.
The elimination of itinerants and, as a result, the emergence of border trade and market practices in the region was the result of the separation of economic relations from social relations and the expansion of communication and transportation. Therefore, the role and position of itinerants in the rural integration and development acted as a reverse mechanism, leading to a decline in their role and position as the market economy progressed.

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Community Development (Rural and Urban)
Volume 16, Issue 1 - Serial Number 30
October 2024
Pages 209-228

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