Investigating the Perception of corruption and Its Related Factors a Case Study of Isfahan City

Corruption is a constantly changing phenomenon and which is influenced by various factors such as socio-cultural, institutional and organizational structures, structural policies and economic and political environments. Corruption as a form of social deviance among the main obstacles of economic and social development in communities. Corruption has two important aspects. The first is perception of corruption in society. The other is the indicators for measuring and evaluating it. The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of corruption and its determinants in Isfahan province. In this study, a questionnaire survey was used. The random sampling method used and the sample size is 394 to include an assessment of the validity and Cronbach’s alpha was used to calculate reliability. The results using SPSS software is both descriptive and analytical extracted. The results show that: (1) there is a significant difference between men and women in perception of corruption.(2) there is a significant difference in perception of corruption concerning the level of education and marital status of respondents. (3) there is no significant difference between ageand socio-economic status of the respondents and their perceptions of corruption.