Applied Research in Geographical Sciences

Applied Research in Geographical Sciences

Migration, Ethnocentrism and Linguistic Diversity Effect in the Development of the Takestan city

Authors
Esmaeil Nasiri
Ali Ahmadi
Reza Rahmani
Abstract
Migration is among important issues that less developed and developing countries have confirmed during the recent five decades. This issues in Iran has attraced a lot of researcher and planner views. Irregular and increasing migrations have created a lot of consequences for cities and the target settlements, social effects of migration on the cities is among such consequence these, in this project, ethnocentrism, linguistic diversity and conformance quality are considered among the city's residents. This issue has been studied in Takestan Qazvin. For illustrating the issue, theories of Michael Todaro, Edward Sapir, Benjamin Whorf and William Samner have been used. The research has been done according to library methods (documents) and field methods (special for questionnaires and measurement).In addition to confirming the questionnaire by the experienced faculties, its reliability has been obtained in accordance with Cornbrash’s Alpha coefficient by 82,2 percent and the SPSS software is used for analyzing and processing. The result obtained by analyzing questionnaire filled in by 400 people that the number has been chosen according to Morgan's Table, and the people have been chosen randomly, shows that there is a meaning full relation ship between ethnocentrism and linguistic diversity with development of the city.
Keywords
Migration
Ethnocentrism
linguistic diversity
conformance
city development
Takestan
Cooley, C. H, (1902). Human Nature and Social order. New York: Scribner’s.

Hagen-Zanker, Jessica, (2008). Why do people migrate? A review of the theoretical literature, Maastricht University Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Working Paper MGSoG /2008/ WP 002Issues, Pluto Press.

Martınez, Javier, Mboupb, Gora ,Sliuzasa,Richard, Stein, Alfred(2008). Trends in urban and slum indicators across developing world cities, 1990–2003, Habitat.
Merton. R .K, (1957). Social Theory and social structure, Free Press, Glencoe, I11.

Comi, M., and H.Winat, (1986). Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s. New York, Rutledge.

Samner, W .G, (1907).Folkways .Boston, Ginny.

Sapir .Edward, (1929). The status of Linguistics as a Scince. Langugage.Vol. 207-14.

Sapir .Edward, (1949). Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and personality. David G. Mandel baum, ed. Berkeley :University of California press.

Sapir, E.Languge, (1921). An Introduction to the study of speech. New York: Harcourt.

Seabrook, Jeremy (2007). Cities, Small Guides to Big issues, No prewie available.

Todaro, Michael P., (1997). Economic development, publisher, London: Longman.

UN-Habitat (2011).Population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development: an international perspective, UN department of economic and social affairs.

Waters, M.C, (1991). The Role of Lineage in Identity Formation among Black Americans '.Qualitative Sociology 14(1): 57-76.

Worf, B .L, (1940). Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf J.B.Carroll (ed.).Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.