Journal of Iranian Social Studies

Abstract The modern world has brought deep, continuous and extensive changes to the interactions of members of neighborhood networks in many societies, including the Iranian society. This has led to the problematic of social interactions in neighborhood networks., Taken for granted that majority of population live in urban areas today, the problem has caused negative consequences for a large part of the population and has caused some of their needs not to be met. The paper aims at providing a list of the problems in neighborhood networks, as well as an empirical typology of these problems.
For this purpose, interviews were used and by successively changing and completing the questions, 16 interviews were conducted with the residents of Mashhad. Based on the results of step-by-step coding, ten categories were obtained:: lack of interaction, shortage of interactions, reduction of interactions, occasional interactions, cold interactions, weakness of warm interactions, non-participation and cooperation of neighbors, distant relationship with neighbors, instrumental interactions and selective relationships.These categories can be classified in two  types: "lack of interaction" and "weakness of warm interaction".