Studying Collectivism and Social Responsibility (Case Study: Kashan's Citizens)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of collectivism in social responsibility among Kashan’s Citizens in five dimensions of community, cultural, political, economic and environmental. Effects of variables as economic, social and cultural capital and religiosity on citizen’s collectivism in the social responsibility were studied. The method for the research is survey and statistical society in this research includes adults, 18 years and older of Kashan in 2013. In this research, 383 people have been selected as the sample volume and for sample selection, multistep cluster method was used. Findings show that collectivism in social responsibility is weak among most of citizens. In social, cultural, political, economic and environmental dimensions, the levels of collectivism are different. The strongest collectivism among dimensions of social responsibility is for the dimension of environmental. The consequences of the research hypotheses, confirmed meaningful correlations between social capital, cultural capital and religiosity with citizen’s collectivism in the social responsibility. The relation between the economic capital and social responsibility was rejected. Religiosity has the most power to affect on social responsibility.