Study of Effects of Social Capital on Social Participation Among Lectures of Shoushtar Islamic Azad University

摘要

The study of effect of social capital on social(civic) participation of Shoushtar Azad university academic staff is the aim of this essay. Perspectives of Marx, Weber, Bourdieu, Coleman, Giddens, Fukuyama have been used for theoretical explanation of social capital and participation. Social interaction, group membership, mass media and altruism affected on Social trust. Statistical population of the research method consists of academic staff of Shushtar Azad university. The research method is Survey which has been performed by questionnaire. There are 231 Academic staffs of the university in the sample. 75% of the variance of dependent variable has been determined by above mentioned variables. Finding show that more social capital, more social participation. Meanwhile social trust has had highest effect on social participation.