The Study of the Relationship between Social Status and Work Conscience of Tehran Neighborhood Assistant Councilors

Subject Areas : Iranian Sociological Review

Mojtaba  Arezi ¹ (Ph.D. Student of Sociology, Dahaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran)
Seyed Naser  Hejazi ² (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran)
Ali  Hashemianfar ³ (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran)

Received: 2023-06-30 Accepted : 2023-06-30 Published : 2023-06-01

Keywords: Social status, work conscience, Tehran Neighborhood Assistant ,

Abstract :

Social status plays a significant role in guaranteeing any society’s dynamism and efficiency. Since the presence of knowledgeable and efficient people with work conscience is the important prerequisite for the growth and prosperity of any society, growing and strengthening their motivation for progress generates energy and appropriately orients their behavior, interests, and needs in line with achieving specific and valuable goals. Besides, since social status plays a major role in functions in all personal, family, and social fields, correct and comprehensive planning in providing social status obviously seems necessary. Given the importance of the issue of relationship between different dimensions of assistant councilors’ social status and work conscience, the current study investigates and analyzes the relationship between different dimensions of Tehran neighborhood assistant councilors’ social status (gaining position and respect, revenue and wealth, value and importance, and job preference) as independent variable and their work conscience as dependent variable. The findings reveal a positive, direct, and significant relationship between all dimensions of social status and its total amount with work conscience of Tehran neighborhood assistant councilors. Meanwhile, the relationship between assistant councilors’ gaining status and social respect and work conscience (P=0.38) has the highest correlation coefficient and the relationship between assistant councilors’ revenue and wealth and work conscience has the lowest correlation coefficient (P=0.25). Moreover, social value and importance (P=0.35) and job preference (P=0.30) have a positive and significant correlation with assistant councilors’ work conscience. Thus, it can be argued that the higher the level of social status (P=0.32) and its dimensions among the Tehran neighborhoods assistant councilors is, the higher the level of their work conscience will be. Hence, all the hypotheses of the present research are confirmed.