A Study of Effective Factors in Social and Political Attitude of the Youth (15 to 29 years) of the Brojen City

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Ahmad Azin ¹ , Yosef Azizi ²

1 - استادیار و عضو هیأت علمی گروه علوم سیاسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شهرضا [e-mail]
2 - کارشناسی ارشد جامعه شناسی گرایش جامعه دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد دهاقان [e-mail]

Received: 2011-01-17 Accepted : 2012-01-17 Published : 2011-12-01

Keywords: Social Capital, mass media, Attitude, political attitude, social attitude, political consciousness, social class,

Abstract :

The present research is conducted with the aim of studying effective factors influencing the socio-political outlook of the youth (15 to 29 years age) of Borojen city. The independent variables of the research are: social capital, political consciousness, social class, age, sex, marital status, national media, religious tendencies, Sharia and use of cyber media. The dependent variable is political outlook. The methodology used in the research is survey and collection of data of library materials, documentary and also questionnaire. The population statistics are the youth of 15 to 29 years residing in Borojen city. The method of sampling is simple random and the size for research is 300 people of the statistical population. The samples have been selected from young unemployed, employed students and the youth who are members of sport clubs. The finding of the study shows that 20.3 per cent of the youth have a poor political consciousness, 19 per cent have less social capital, 36.3 per cent of them come from low social class, 6.3 per cent have weak religious tendency, 8.7 per cent of them are of the view that the impact of national media is weak and 13 per cent of them have little access to internet. On the whole one can conclude that variables like social capital, political consciousness, social class, national media, religious tendency and sex are having positive connection with political-social outlook and have influence on political and social outlook.