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Objective: Citizens have many rights and commitments. "Citizenship
commitments" induce social order and make social affairs predictable. Such a
concept due to its nature and meaning holds relation with entire subjects and
debates of currently human and social fields.
Method: This research is a survey on citizens over the age of 18 in Tehran city.
Sampling method is compound of classified and random method.
Social capital has two dimensions: participaion and trust. It is measured by
personal and impersonal trust and participaion in privacy and public spheres.
insecurity has four dimensions financial, collective, thinking and body
insecurity. Relative social deprivation measured by compare of self with
generalized others. Anomy has measured in four dimensions of social, cultural,
economical and politic anomy. Citizenship commitment include behavioral and
sense of (generalized) commitments. Sense of commitment measured by level of
belonging to the society and country and behavioral commitments measured by
respect to the law, pay tax, tamper, etc.
Findings: social capital and universalism have significant positive impact and
feeling of insecurity and social anomy had significant negative impact upon
citizenship commitments. In addition, feeling of insecurity has three indirect
impacts upon citizenship commitments via social capital, universalism and social
anomy. Women have more commitment than men. Also older people have more
commitment than younger.
Results: There is relation between micro and macro levels. In order to analysis
the affecting factors on citizenship commitments, it is necessary to take the role
of macro structure in to account, especially power structure. Thus despotism
makes a social psychology which reduces citizenship commitments. It can be
concluded that despotism decrease citizenship commitments and in the extreme
it could delay going toward civil society and it could reproduce structures related
to despotism.
As most important research variable feeling of insecurity has direct and indirect
effect on citizenship commitment. It has indirect effect via social capital,
universalism and anomy. The best result of this research is that despotism can be
most important factor that affect on citizenship commitment
Type of Study:
orginal |
Received: 2011/04/18 | Published: 2010/10/15