A comparative study on the relationship between political participation and social alienation among Tabriz men and women

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Hamze Sadeghian ¹ , Amir Mazaheri ² , Mahmoode Elmii ³ , Firoz Rad ⁴

1 - PhD Student, Department of Political Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Amir Masuud Amirmazaheri, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Mahmood Elmi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tabriz branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
4 - Firuuz Rad, Associate Professor of Sociology, PNU University

Received: 2017-08-24 Accepted : 2018-06-08 Published : 2018-05-22

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AbstractToday, participation in the context of a democratic and civil society is institutionalized and the development thinkers believe that the political participation of mass people is one of the signs of political modernization. This study aims to do a comparative study on the relationship between political participation and social alienation among Tabriz men and women. To explain the pathological forms of political participation and also passivity, unwillingness and indifference, the sociologists used the social alienation theories. The question is that what is the relationship between political participation and social alienation among the men and females in Tabriz city? This is a survey study and the measurement tool was a questionnaire. The statistical population includes the over 18 year old men and women in Tabriz. The sample size, based on Cochran formula, was 354 people and the data were gathered through Cluster sampling method. The validity of the questionnaire was verified through formal validity and the reliability was calculated by Cronbakh formula. To analyze the data, SPSS software was used and the Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to test the hypotheses. The results show that there was not a significant correlation between political participation and social alienation of men and women so that women's political participation in Tabriz was lower than that of men while the women's social alienation was more than men's.Keyword: political participation, social alienation, men and women, democratic society.

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