The Role of Social Capital in adherence to civic culture among the citizens of the city of Kermanshah

Abstract

Culture of citizenship in the form of values and norms that reflect the modern lifestyle and shaping human interaction in the context of collective life and the overall ability of the acquisition, defined and according to the new community is important. Given the importance of civic culture, this research using field survey techniques, research tools and questionnaires using SPSS software and Smart PLS, to examine the role of social capital in adherence to the primary goal is civic culture. The study sample is in Kermanshah and 384 citizens over 18 years old using Cochran formula the sample size has been studied. The results indicate that the total amount of social capital (P= 0.34), and its dimensions of social trust (P= 0.39), social support (P= 0.30), social interaction (P= 0.35), social cohesion (P= 0.32) and social consciousness (P= 0.23) there is a significant positive relationship, so all hypotheses are confirmed. The results of structural equation model (Smart PLS) showed that social capital for a total of 0.53 commitment to civic culture of the variance explained, by considering the values of the coefficient of determination of the amount of average effect size is estimated to be 0.28.

Keywords

• social capital
• citizenship
• civic culture
• city of kermanshah