Islam Gasemzadeh Ajirloo; Seyed Reza Moeini; Rooza Karampoor
Abstract
Vandalism or the voluntary destruction of public property is one of the social damages that have always caused enormous damage to society and especially to schools. In this regard, in the present study, the experiences of the Pars Abad high schools teachers and students of vandalism , studied with sociological ...
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Vandalism or the voluntary destruction of public property is one of the social damages that have always caused enormous damage to society and especially to schools. In this regard, in the present study, the experiences of the Pars Abad high schools teachers and students of vandalism , studied with sociological approach and did in a qualitative manner through semi-structured interviews. The Statistical Society of research was Pars Abad high school teachers and students in Ardabil province that chose 56 individuals of them for simple size. These individuals initially were selected through purposeful sampling and continued through the snowball method for focus groups of teachers and students until information saturation. The data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The findings showed that vandalism is seen in both Physical (hard) and non physical (soft؛ in real or internet space) forms in the high schools in terms of focus groups. Also, the main factors according to those focus groups interviews in importance order are: the sense of impunity and discrimination, socio- economic status, differential association, socialization level of interviews and individual factors.
