Investigating the effect of the social field on the voters' attitude towards the policies of the electoral institutions in Rasht

Subject Areas : Political philosophy of the Islamic Revolution

Morteza Shabani ¹ , Reza simbar ² , Mohamad Reza Akhzariyan Kashani, ³

1 - PhD student in Political Sociology, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Faculty member of Guilan University
3 - Faculty member of Islamic Political Thought Department, Faculty of Islamic Education and Thought, University of Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-06-26 Accepted : 2022-11-15 Published : 2022-10-23

Keywords: parliament, Rasht, social policy field, Electoral institutions,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research is to increase funds in the social field for institutions that play a major role in the policy making process in society. In order to limit the issue, the Islamic Council was chosen as the most important legislative body in the society. Fishbein's and Eisen's theories have been used to investigate the attitude towards the politics of electoral institutions and Bourdieu's theory has been used as a theoretical framework to investigate the social field. The main method of this research is a survey and the data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population of this research consists of all the people who are eligible to vote, of which 400 people were selected as the sample size. The sampling method is also a multi-stage cluster. One of the important findings of this research is the direct and positive effect of the attitude towards the social field on the attitude towards the policies of the electoral body of the Islamic Council. Also, the four dimensions of the social field including (economic capital, social capital, cultural capital and symbolic capital) also had a positive and direct effect on the voters' attitude towards the policies of the Islamic Council. Other results include the lack of relationship between education and voters' attitudes and the negative relationship between age and voters' attitudes towards the policies of electoral institutions. Also, the difference between women and men is different in terms of attitude towards policy making and women's attitude is more positive than men's.