Women’s Attitude toward Change in Awareness to Civil Rights and its Correlation with Cultural Capital in Tehran

Subject Areas : ‌Family

Mahbube Abdosamadi ¹ ( PhD Student in Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. )
Khadijeh Safiri ² ( Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran )
Yaghoub Mousavi ³ ( Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran )

Received: 2018-09-23 Accepted : 2020-11-17 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Women, Cultural capital, Tehran City, Attitude toward civil rights,

Abstract :

The present article was done with the aim to investigate Women`s attitude toward Change in Awareness to Civil Rights and its Correlation with Cultural Capital. The method was survey analytic and the statistical population were all women above 18 in Tehran city in 2017; among them 384 women were selected in random clustered multilevel way through Cochran formula from 22 regions of Tehran city. The instrument of the study was researcher- made questionnaire. The theoretical framework of cultural capital was developed through Bourdieu`s theory consisting of embodied, objective and institutional cultural capital; and the attitudes toward civil rights was based on Zoanveski`s model in political, participatory- urban- social dimensions. According to the results, women`s attitude toward civil rights status was 55 percent and their cultural capital was 59 percent. The findings of Pearson correlation coefficient test also revealed an average direct relationship between cultural capital components with the attitude toward civil rights (r=0.52, p < 0.05). The obtained results of multiple regression test also revealed that three cultural capital components can predict 27 percent of women`s attitude toward civil rights and among them, objective cultural capital was the most affective element.