The Sociological Study of Students' Attitude towards Political Participation and Socio-cultural Factors Affecting it in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Case Study: Students Under Support of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Shiraz)

The research aims at investigating socio-cultural factors affecting the political participation of students under the support of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Shiraz. The research method is survey. The statistical population includes all the students under the support of the Committee in Shiraz, 302 of whom were selected as a sample using a systematic sampling method. The research tool is a questionnaire, which was presented to the experts who are professors of the sociology department to determine its validity using the face validity method, whose opinion was based on confirming the validity of the questionnaires. In order to determine reliability, the internal consistency method using Cronbach's alpha method has been used. The descriptive results of the research reveal that the average attitude of students towards political participation is at a low level. The analytical findings of the research indicate that the relationship between students' political participation and religiosity, political trust, national identity and communication with friends in virtual space is positive, strong and meaningful. Among the demographic variables, the relationship between gender, marital status and field of study with political participation is significant, positive and strong. The explanation of political participation in the general state, according to the total of independent variables, shows that religiosity (0.234), communication with friends in virtual space (0.226), national identity (0.125) and marriage (0.099) ) are respectively the strongest predictors of political participation and can explain 48% of the changes in the variance of students' political participation.