Investigating sociological factors affecting social tolerance in Isfahan city

Subject Areas : sociology

Masoome Kermanshahi ¹ (PhD student in cultural sociology, Islamic Azad University,Dehghan, Iran)
علی هاشمیان فر ² (Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Isfahan University , Isfahan, Iran, Email: [e-mail])
Fereydoon Vahida ³ (Professor of Sociology,Isfahan university, Isfahan, Iran)

Received: 2024-04-03 Accepted : 2024-07-06 Published : 2024-08-12

Keywords: social tolerance, feeling of social inequality, feeling of social security, cultural intelligence, authoritarianism,

Abstract :

Social tolerance is a description of social actions that differ from the majority in the direction of peace. The current research was conducted with the aim of sociological explanation of social tolerance among the citizens of Isfahan, relying on theorists such as Vogt, Durkheim, Chong ... The survey research method and the questionnaire collection tool were used for the validity of the research, the content validity method, the reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha. The statistical population is citizens over 20 years of age in Isfahan city in 1399-1400. The sample size was calculated with Gpower software, 461 people and the quota sampling method was chosen. The findings show that the average social tolerance is downward. The results of the Pearson correlation test: between feeling of security (0.345), religiosity (0.308), cultural intelligence (0.383) and social tolerance have a significant and direct relationship, between the feeling of inequality (-0.308) and authoritarianism (- 0.371) There is a significant and inverse relationship with social tolerance. The results of the structural equations model: there is a meaningful relationship between the feeling of security, feeling of inequality, cultural intelligence, authoritarianism and social tolerance according to the developed conceptual model and in a structural relationship. But religiosity was not significant on social tolerance. Cultural intelligence has explained the most variance in promoting social tolerance

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