Students knowledge and enjoyment of civil rights and social factors associated with it

Naser Gholamhasani¹ younes Eskandari²

1) Masters in Sociology, trend researchers, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
2) Doctoral Student in Public Administration with a focus on adaptation and development, Islamic Azad University of Zanjan, Iran.

IOI Code : XYCH-AECZH
Publication : 3rd International conference on Management , Economics and Humanities(icmeh.org)
Abstract :
    One of the main features of human society and the challenges of the third millennium, the concept of having citizenship rights, which according to urban population growth, the need to design and metropolitan planning. This special has been found in the world today.Therefore, this study aimed to assess the knowledge and enjoyment of civil rights and social factors associated with it among students of two universities Zanjan, is examined. The dependent variable in the above study, students knowledge and enjoyment of the rights of citizens, which, with seven independent variables include: social interaction, national identity, religious preference, social trust, social participation, use of mass media and in public appearances, is tested. Based on the theoretical framework of the research, the study points theoreticians of the school of individualism - liberals such as: T H. Marshall, the American philosopher John Rawls, Theory of school construction Republicans - Swiss civil and thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant s theory of cooperative studio, Robert Dahl, Habermas areas (public areas), Schumacher in the field of communications media and modern communication technologies, Tunis theory of social trust, social interaction and discussion of religion Max Weber, the theories of Samuel Huntington, Turner and social identity is Tajfl. The survey-based study was conducted using questionnaires, 500 students were enrolled in master s degree. The findings showed that the mean score of knowledge and enjoyment of civil rights in the target population, 2.13, 2.64 social interaction, religious preference 17.2, 79.2 sense of national identity, social trust 24.2, social participation36.2, 67.1 and the use of mass media in public 2.50 is in the range of 1 to 5. Thus, the dependent variable awareness of the rights of citizenship, the independent variable in this research, has been a significant relationship. In multivariate regression analysis, the independent variables in the model, have in total 37% of the variance in the dependent variable explained in the population.

Keywords : civil rights social interaction participation religious preference trust