The Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran Journal of Social Problems of Iran 2008-8973 10 1 2019 04 21 The Process of Urban Water Consumption in Tehran: Presenting the Grounded Theory The Process of Urban Water Consumption in Tehran: Presenting the Grounded Theory 281 311 76177 10.22059/ijsp.2020.76177 FA Nima Bardiafar PhD student in Sociology of Economic Development, University of Isfahan Vahid Ghasemi University of Isfahan, member of faculty of Litrature Abbas Kazemi Faculty Member of the Institute for Cultural and Social Studies Jabbar Rahmani Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Studies Journal Article 2020 01 02 This study surveys the semantic impacts of the spatial transformation of the Tehran city's water infrastructure in the recent decades. After governments modernization plans in the last century –including dams' construction, transferring water to the towns, and supplying it through plumbing to the houses- there were transformations and alterations in the urban space construction, the interiors of the homes, social relations between citizens. Following them, rapid changes in the water-related beliefs, values, and actions happened. Based on the classic method of Grounded Theory, the data of this study collected through in-depth individual and group interviews. According to this method, the collected data was coded in 3 phases (open, optional, and theoretical), and the relations between the categories were surveyed in an analytical model until the emergence of a theory based on limited reality. In this process, 8 general categories, including structural changes and technological development, Adiaphorization, mass production and luxury consumption, changing health values, transforming water-related values, house as a whole, individualization/ privatization, consumeristic supervision, and the main category entitled "process of consumption" was obtained. The last one shows the relations between all of the involved phenomena in this issue. The process mentioned above expresses the changes in the water-related values, beliefs, and actions of Tehranians and the increasing expansion of urban consumption. This study surveys the semantic impacts of the spatial transformation of the Tehran city's water infrastructure in the recent decades. After governments modernization plans in the last century –including dams' construction, transferring water to the towns, and supplying it through plumbing to the houses- there were transformations and alterations in the urban space construction, the interiors of the homes, social relations between citizens. Following them, rapid changes in the water-related beliefs, values, and actions happened. Based on the classic method of Grounded Theory, the data of this study collected through in-depth individual and group interviews. According to this method, the collected data was coded in 3 phases (open, optional, and theoretical), and the relations between the categories were surveyed in an analytical model until the emergence of a theory based on limited reality. In this process, 8 general categories, including structural changes and technological development, Adiaphorization, mass production and luxury consumption, changing health values, transforming water-related values, house as a whole, individualization/ privatization, consumeristic supervision, and the main category entitled "process of consumption" was obtained. The last one shows the relations between all of the involved phenomena in this issue. The process mentioned above expresses the changes in the water-related values, beliefs, and actions of Tehranians and the increasing expansion of urban consumption. https://ijsp.ut.ac.ir/article_76177_a18c1dbd01a51fc8d7731c37f47484c6.pdf