اعتماد، اجتماع و جنسيت : بررسي تطبيقي اعتماد متقابل در بين دو جنس

Trust, Community, and Gender

Trust comprises the core concept of the classical sociological theories, and is the main axis of new theories on social capital. It is also the context in which social interactions and social relations take place. The results of many recently performed national studies are indicative of the relative reduction of such a variable (trust) among different strata of the community. These studies have considered varying socioeconomic factors such as the following, as the main reasons and major factors contributing to the present situation: rapid uplift of the educational level and increasing number of increased access to and consumption of the media and especially the presence of the new media such as Internet in the countryʹs communication, the drastic population growth and the rapid expansion of cities. Nonetheless, few studies have taken into account the effect of gender variable and its abstract impact on trust. The present study calls attention to significance of womenʹs membership in the community, and following Schumpeter, it considers womenʹs role as a crucial factor in the national development. The study, while attempting to understand the dimensions and levels of mutual trust, taken together as one of the main topics in social trust, examines factors, which exert influence on trust. It takes up to measure and compare gender influence on trust with other considered variables. The study has been carried out in 28 Iranian provinces, with a sample size of 8206, in the Iranian calendar year of 1381.