The impact of sociological study of social and cultural factors on social participation in Yasuj
Journal Title: Scientific Journal of Review - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
It is not possible to develop without participation in the social and cultural activities. Participation makes a good opportunity for people to be involved in decision making Process, planning, implementation and evaluation. Today social participation is seen as an important tool which plays role in social development. Kohgiluyeh and YASUJ are underdeveloped, so social participation can be used to provide a condition for economic prosperity. Although, several factors are involved in the economic growth of a region, the social participation is determinant factor in the economic growth of YASUJ and Kohgiluyeh BoyerAhmad. Be developed successfully, has direct relationship with the social participation and its effective factors .Therefore, this study investigates the impact of sociological study of social and cultural factors on social participation in YASUJ and individual characteristics. Age, sex, education level, annual income, employment status, are the most important contextual variables in this study. These variables are supposed the individual characteristics of the respondents and they are investigated to understand the situation of respondents better. In addition to demographic variables, variables like interpersonal trust, institutional trust, institutional trust (organizational), the use of mass media, fatalism, empathy, family-oriented, economic – social base of family, dependency on government power, new oriented, housing type and car ownership are independent variables and the social participation is as a dependent variable which has been measured in this study. Design/ methodology/ approach: This study applied a survey questionnaire for data collection. This study was conducted in Yasuj among people of 18 to 60 years. Based on the last Census Population in this city, population were 71613. A random sampling was done and the questionnaire was distributed among 382 persons. Sampling group was remained 377. SPSS was applied to analyze the questionnaire. To analyze data, Pearson correlation coefficients, T-test, ANOVA, simple linear regression and multivariate regression were used. Finding: The results showed independent variables like mass media usage, institutional trust, respondents age, education level and fatalism, have managed % 27 / 9 of the total influencing factor on social participation., and 72/1 depended on other factors that are outside of this range. The conceptual model included five independent variables; the use of media, institutional trust, respondents' age, education level and fatalism, and a dependent variable; social participation .This model is considered as a good one and the dependent and independent variables are capable of justify social participation.
Authors and Affiliations
J. Mashhadi*| Department of Social Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran., M. Elahi| M.A in Anthropology, 1Department of Social Sciences, Arak Branch , Islamic Azad University, Arak,Iran.
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