Estimating the social trust and influencing factors on it in the centers of cities of Chaharmahal-va-Bachtyari province

In this study, considering the most important viewpoints of classic and Social trust is considered as the most important component of social capital and of the most important concepts in sociology. Varying social structure and general changes in various social, economical, and political domains of modern society and resulted problems has made this concept very attracted, but this doesn’t mean that the classic thinkers haven’t paid attention to it. By gaining importance in modern society, the social trust took a special place for policy makers, planners, and authorities so that it was paid attention in the economical, social project of development of the country to estimating the social capital and in turn social trust. Accordingly, knowing trust rate and its most influencing and relevant factors in Chaharmahal-va-Bachtyari province this study was performed to answer this question: at what rate is the social trust in the centers of the province? And what are its most influencing and relevant factors? contemporary theoreticians such as Durkhim, Weber, Toonis, Putnam, Bourdieu, Fukuyama, Giddens, Erickson, Offe, and indoors and outdoor researches, it was separated various trust such as interpersonal, institutional, public, organizational, political and trust to jobs and stands as subdivisions of social trust and they were estimated by survey method with a sample of 612 individuals in 6 cities of the province, then it was case-studied their relations with the varriables of security feeling, religious beliefs, government performance, legalism, assumption of religiosity and piety, and ethical values. The sample volume was selected by Cochran formula after preliminary test and calculating p,q and sampled by stratified method and then the data was gathered. The results showed that the trust rate is at the middle and lower than that in all above mentioned subdivisions, unless the interpersonal and institutional trust. And the varriables of ethical values, government performance and legalism had the most correlation to social trust. The variables of religious beliefs, security feeling, and assumption of religiosity and piety had significant correlation coefficient with social trust.