The role of social networks in transformation of political culture in Iran case study: Tehran University Students

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

majid tabibi jebeli ¹ (دانشجوی دکترا)
Abolghasem Taheri ² (Political science, Faculty of Law and Political Science Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran, Iran)
Alireza Azghandi ³ (Political science, Faculty of Law and Political Science Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2017-12-18 Accepted : 2018-03-12 Published : 2007-12-22

Keywords: "virtual social networks", "traditional political culture", "emotional and evaluative orientation", "cognitive", "passive and active positive and negative",

Abstract :

The present study is based on a study of a sample of 385 students of Tehran universities by survey method and using the questionnaire technique which addresses the impact of virtual social networks on students' political culture. According to Almond and Verba's political culture three types of political cultures including "traditional", "causal" and "participatory" have been considered in this research. These three types of political culture are characterized by three dimensions: "cognitive", "emotional" and "evaluative", in relation to the four categories of "system", "inputs", "outputs" and "oneself as an actor". Grounded and independent variables in this research are gender, field of study, academic degree, university type and virtual social networks. The results of the research show that the population studied has the same patterns of political culture and the prevailing pattern among them is a positive participatory model. Although there is a negative participatory pattern among them, which is not defined in Almond's and his colleagues' views.