Investigating social participation situation of citizenships in the domain of 5ths zone, Tehran

In the present age, one of the requirements of the urban life is for the citizens to be interfered in the destiny of urban behavior. Planning and expanding necessary contexts for citizens’ participation in managing urban affairs is the movement from individual life toward collective citizenship life. Principally, it is an active attendance of citizens in managing domestic affairs and on the other hand, one of the components of development and stability in any human society relies on integration, oneness, cooperation, and principally participation in social life affairs.

The goal of this study is to investigate social urban participation situation in areas analysis level and the development degree in the 5th district areas in Tehran.

This study has been done with predicative and surveying method. Statistical population is Tehran’s 5th district areas population which consists of over 20 year olds. A sample of 500 people in octad districts was selected by proportionate with size cluster sampling.

The research findings showed thatinformal cooperative participation existed among the participation dimensions with the highest mean of 5.2 and formal participation with the lowest mean of 2 and also, religious informal participation with the mean of 4.8 and charitable informal participation with the mean of 4.74 was located in successive ranks.

More developed areas had formal and informal assistance participation and significantly lower informal religious participation. Informal charity participation level was the same in all areas no significant difference was detected