Investigating the Factors Affecting Social (Civic) Participation among Professors of Shushtar Islamic Azad University with Emphasis on Social Capital

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

Ahmad Ali Hesabi ¹

1 - Sociology, Social Science, Islamic Azad University, Shushtar, Iran

Received: 2019-11-01 Accepted : 2020-11-08 Published : 2020-02-20

Keywords: "social interaction", "social capital", "social trust", "civic participation", group membership ", " group media ",

Abstract :

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of factors affecting social (civic) participation among professors of Shushtar Islamic Azad University with emphasis on social capital, to theoretically explain social participation and social capital from classical sociological perspectives such as Karl Marx and Max Weber and society New scholars such as Bourdieu, Coleman, Giddens, Putnam, Fukuyama, etc. were used. The influential variables that remain in the regression equation are social trust, social interactions, group membership, mass media, and others. The research method was survey using questionnaire technique. The research method was survey using a questionnaire technique. The sample size was 231 people who were Accidental selected., After collecting the data and analyzing the data at both descriptive and inferential levels, rejecting and confirming the hypotheses at this level of analysis, it was noted that the variables mentioned above together explain R2 = 0.75, about 75% of the dependent variable variance. . The results show that the higher the social capital, the higher the social participation and social trust has the most impact on social participation.