Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, P.O. Box 14665-889, Tehran, Iran.
2 Doctor of Sociology, ACECR of Allameh Tabatabai Branche,
3 ACECR of Allameh Tabatabai Branche
Abstract
The life of people in the form of "homeless life" is one of the consequences of the development of the city, especially in Tehran metropolis. For this purpose, preparing and creating centers under the title of Madadsara (homeless shelter) is considered as one of the ways to empower and deal with this social phenomenon. Therefore, the main goal of this article is to investigate the perception and mentality of homeless people (sample number 12 people) from the Madadsara in the railway neighborhood of the 11th district of Tehran using the qualitative-phenomenological research method. According to the findings of the research, the average age of the participants of this research was 37.58 years. In this research, 16 structural categories were extracted from semantic and textual clusters that refer to the dimensions of daily life, identity elements, attitude, expectations, and lack of acceptance of homeless men towards shelters. The results of the research show that the formed structure of a homeless person's identity causes this person to show his rough life in the form of sleeping in heaven and earth, avoiding the framework, addiction in the form of vagrancy and vulgarity in the streets and alleys. From the point of view of homelessness, shelters are usually restrictive, poorly organized and poorly functioning. Therefore, it can be said that the causes of homeless men's lack of acceptance towards Madadsara are three important categories: "creating interference in the homeless life process", "weakness of facilities and equipment" and "weakness of human interactions".
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