Study of social and cultural factors related to the tendency of female students to critical thinking with emphasis on cultural capital

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

jamileh Fehresti ^{1 *} , Mansour Haghighatian ²

1 - Ph.D. Student of Sociology, Dehaghani Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Sociology, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran.

Received: 2018-03-09 Accepted : 2018-05-24 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: critical thinking, Cultural capital, social-economic status,

Abstract :

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the tendency of students of female students of Farhangian University in the city of Bondar Abbas to critical thinking with an emphasis on cultural capital. The dependent variable is the tendency to critical thinking and independent variables, age, field of study, years of university education, socio-economic base, trust in the content of social networks and cultural capital. The statistical population of this study is all female students of the University of Cultural Sciences in Bandar Abbas who were studying at the center of Fatemeh Al-Zahra campus in Bandar Abbas. 405 students of the sample of 120 people were selected and tested according to Morgan's table. The instrument for measuring the Critical Thinking Questionnaire (2003) and the Bourdieu Cultural Capital Questionnaire. The results of statistical analysis by using the SPSS software showed that students scored a moderate score from the tendency toward critical thinking. The research hypotheses were measured using Eta and Pearson correlation coefficients. Based on the results of the research, there is a weak correlation between the variables, age, years of university education and the tendency to think critically. Also, the results of regression analysis showed that independent variables such as age, socioeconomic status, predictive basis of critical thinking were not studied in the studied population. Among the independent variables of the variables of cultural capital and objective capital as one of the components of cultural capital, a positive predictor of critical thinking was the tendency toward critical thinking.