An Analysis of attitude toward women's citizenship rights in Tehran city based on their social and cultural capital

The present article aimed to specify the attitude toward women’s citizenship rights on the bases of the respondents’ social and cultural capitals in the city of Tehran. The method of research was analytical survey and the research population consisted of all Tehrani females over the age of 18 in 2016 of whom, on the basis of Cochran formula, 384 who were selected using a random classified sampling technique. Researchers` self-made questionnaire; the social capital theoretical framework was constructed based on Bourdieu’s theory with objective (social participation, commitment, and interaction) and subjective (social awareness, trust, and solidarity) dimensions which states a dialectical relationship between subjectivity (habitus) and objectivity (field). Also, cultural capital consisted of embodied, objectified and institutionalized forms. Zoanevski`s citizenship rights model was used in political, collaborative- civilian, and social dimensions. The obtained results of multiple regression and path analysis revealed that all of social capital indicators can predict 17 percent of female’s attitude toward citizenship rights in which social trust and social interactions played the main role. Also, social capital indexes can explain 27 percent of female’s citizenship rights in which embodied capital was the most important.