Social capital in the Islamic worldview: the case study of the analysis of the theme of public trust in the intellectual system of the Supreme Leader

Subject Areas : Political philosophy of the Islamic Revolution

Seysd hossein Eftekhar Afzali ¹

1 - هنرستان تراب نجف زاده

Received: 2023-11-05 Accepted : 2023-12-23 Published : 2023-12-22

Keywords: Social capital, Public Trust, Theme Analysis, Islamic system, Ayatollah Khamenei's intellectual system,

Abstract :

Today, one of the necessities in the Islamic society is to strengthen social capital in order to achieve the goals of the political system. In the meantime, one of the concepts that can be mentioned as the basis of social capital to achieve other goals in society is public trust. In this research, while explaining the theme analysis method and using the theme network analysis technique, the number of 306 data of the main text of Ayatollah Khamenei's statements on the topic of public trust was carefully analyzed, and at the end, 5 main themes were used as components of the model of public trust in the statements. He was obtained. The purpose of the article is to discover the central themes of ways to strengthen public trust through the theme analysis model in his intellectual system. The results show: social capital in the Islamic society was determined as an area for laying the groundwork for development. The conceptual evolution of social capital with the Islamic worldview is very meaningful compared to the Western approach. By analyzing the theme of public trust in his intellectual system, it is used in this way that the mutual relationship between the people and the officials causes the government to achieve its goals through the implementation of the officials' promises through their performance, and on the other hand, the people's trust in the political system. be strengthened and this is subject to clarifying its actions through the presentation of reports of the three forces.