The examination of social factors of the political socialization associated with the tendency toward democracy among the students of local universities of Mahabad
Subject Areas : sociology
1 - کارشناسی ارشد جامعهشناسی، گروه علوم اجتماعی، واحد تبریز، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی؛ تبریز– ایران.
2 - استادیار گروه علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه پیام نور، صندوق پستی 3697 – 19395 تهران- ایران (نویسنده مسئول).
Keywords: Students, Political socialization, political trust, tendency towards democracy,
Abstract :
The main purpose of study is to determine the relationship between thetendency towards democracy and political socialization. Democracy hasbeen proposed on the base of ideas of Robert Dahl, Schumpeter, Huntington,Habermas, Cohen and Kymlicka as dependent variable and politicalsocialization with its dimensions of political participation, politicalawareness, political trust, ethnicities and political solidarity has beenproposed based on the theories of Parsons, Giddens, Huntington, Kymlicka,Held and Robert Dahl. The population of the study was 354 students whowere selected by cluster stratified sampling method and a questionnairewas used for collecting required data. The results show that, there is ameaningful relationship between political socialization and the tendencytowards democracy and the rate of the tendency towards democracy andpolitical socialization is moderate to high. There is a meaningfulrelationship between social factors such as political participation, politicalawareness, ethnicocenterism and political coherence with the tendencytowards democracy. Also, there is no relationship between political trustand the tendency towards democracy.
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