SOCIAL STATUS OF SELF-SUPPORTING WOMEN TAECHERS AND QUALITY OF LIFE

Today, the world is encountering with an increase in the number of self-supporting or household- supporting women teachers and quality of their life. In sociology and anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to one s position in society (one s social position). It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc. This survey has been done in Fars Province, a city in south of Iran. The major criterion for selection of my sample was cluster sampling, then the researcher used simple random sampling as a final method for choosing the samples. In this study, the researcher has chosen 287 teachers of 1146 teachers of self-supporting women teachers in Fars Province according to Cochran Formula. The major tool for this study was Questionnaire. Using Chi-Square Test was shown that there is a relationship between social status and quality of life of self-supporting women. The Gama and Kendall coefficients were equal to 0.232 and 0.087, with a significant level of 0.01. According to this value, there is a positive Correlation coefficient but the amount of the coefficient is low

Keywords:

social status , quality of life , self-supporting women