Document Type : Research Paper
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1 PHD student
2 Faculty member of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran
3 Faculty member of Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
Abstract
Popular beliefs, on one hand, can accelerate the process of sustainable development, on the other hand, can prevent it.With these words, it seems necessary to answer this question:"Do popular beliefs help sustainable rural development, or on the contrary, can it be considered as an obstacle?"In the current research, in order to explain the impact of popular beliefs on sustainable rural development, thirty-four parts of the documentary collection of the villages of South Khorasan province,which examines the economic status, employment and agricultural products of that province, in thirty villages;By benefiting from Durkheim's theory of social division of labor-with a different view in opposition to the principles of the modernization school in expressing the obstacles to development-it has been investigated.The approach of this qualitative research, the method of gathering information in it, is documentary,as well as the technique used is content analysis.The studies conducted in the villages of this province inform about the significant relationship between popular beliefs and sustainable rural development and each of its dimensions.As a result of the division of societies in Durkheim's theory,it shows the progress of societies and not necessarily the backwardness of primitive societies in the sense of an obstacle to reach any kind of development.
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