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Short Abstract
The major aim of the current study was on confirmed hypothesis in the previously conducted studies: the relationship between the social status and the tendency to homelessness among homeless people in Tehran.
Mixed methods research design was used to collect data. In the quantitative part of the study, the survey method was used, and the data were collected by researcher-made questionnaire. In this section, the participants consisted of 12048 people. According to Cochran formula, 372 individuals were selected using a random sampling method. In the qualitative part of the research, the data were collected through interviewing 34 homeless people.
The results of the survey in quantitative and quantitative section showed that the relationship between the homeless and the social base was not significant at 95% confidence level. Subsequently, based on the collected data, three social bases of high, medium, and low social were distinguished from one another, with a relationship between the orientation towards the low and moderate social base and homelessness in the 95% confidence level. Thus, the components of the social base and its role in the orientation to the homelessness and the findings of interview with the subjects showed that in the lower social base, immigration and marginalization, presence in dangerous situations increased. At the top of the social base, the diversity of leisure opportunities also increases the chance of being in high-risk situations, leading to addiction and homelessness. These results showed that the contradictory hypothesis about the relationship between economic poverty, and it was also found that the tendency towards social deviations cannot always be meaningful.

Keywords: homelessness, leisure positions, life opportunity, marginalization, social status

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