چكيده به لاتين
As an emerging science, family economy describes the family based on market exchanges. Its new explanation has caused the family to be governed by a rational order that destroys the individual and family relations. In economic explanations, the market values have become a guide to the family members’ attitudes and actions. According to Islamic principles, family, as a natural-innate institution, has a completely different nature from the economic enterprises, and is a center for the human advancement, education and training. If Islamic rationality does not enter the family life, the family will face identity variations and gradually lose its ability and power in various fields. But, family and government are two undeniable necessities the harmonization/coordination quality of which is a very important issue. Islam considers the government as the society’s guiding organization, and its main concern is to guide the family towards eternal bliss and prosperity. Considering Islamic teachings as a basis, this study seeks to search and explore the pattern of the family economy in order to provide a real and rational explanation of different families’ behavior in matters dealing, somehow, with a kind of economic motivation. To this end, it has presented its findings entitled "Gradational family economics model in interaction with the gradational government" using the grounded theory according to which families are fuzzily ranked, based on their degree of advancement, into ten categories: enemy, irrational, natural, exploitative, collaborative, cooperative, fair, benevolent, sacrificing, and transcendent. Duties of the Islamic State too are defined in terms of the family development, at such levels as the tenure and intervention, support, guidance, supervision and non-intervention. Next, it has used the directed qualitative content analysis method to extract the family economy evaluation indicators, and conducted a survey on 387 households in Tehran. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis have shown that the data fit well with the factor structure and theoretical basis of the research, and the Cronbach’s alpha, structural reliability, discriminant validity and convergent validity criteria were confirmed as well. In analyzing the results, use was made of not only the descriptive statistics, but also of such inferential statistical methods as the mean comparison and linear regression analysis. Use was also made of the fuzzy C-means clustering method to divide families into different clusters based on the advancement and decline components. Results have shown that the absolute income and assets are not good predictors of the family status and its variations; in contrast, the feeling of economic adequacy and satisfaction can, as a mental and cognitive component, explain a higher percentage of families’ changes and diversities. Although families are relatively well-off in terms of the advancement criteria (cooperation, kindness, and transcendence), a high percentage of them experience average naturalness and moderate to high exploitation. Hence, it can be concluded that, while paying attention to transcendent values, families in Tehran have serious weaknesses in some components. This dissertation will present, at the end, some policy recommendations in accordance with the gradational government model.
