بررسي عوامل اقتصادي- اجتماعي مرتبط با مشاركت سياسي جوانان: مطالعه موردي شهر ساري

Study of economic- social Factors Associated with Youths Political Participation: Case Study in Sary

Political participation is one of the important controversies in political sociology, and is taken into account for one of the political development branches in countries. The purpose of this research is to survey economic-social parameters associated with youths political participation in Sary. The employed method in this article is survey. Information gathering has been done through questionnaire. The under survey statistical society is Saryʹs youths .Based on the last census in 1385 this group had 53724 population. From this statistical society 300people have been chosen for survey with random and systematic procedure and using Cocheran formula. In present research for desirability estimation validity of criterion and construction and for achieving dynamic of survey tools, the Cronbach Alpha has been used. For studying research hypotheses, the coherent coefficient and comparison of averages and investigating research model, the path analysis has been used. The obtained results of the research show that the five variables: social confidence, social correlation, religious attractions and membership in organizations and also education with the arrangement of the importance rate that they had in clarifying dependent variable were entered the regression equation and they could explain 65% of dependent variable changes in total variables. also obtained data from youths participation condition shows that average score of social participation regarding under survey individuals equals 43.48, which in comparison with score range (11-55)is low and indicates the low and few and, to some extent, weak participation of youths. The results of this research concerning youths political participation is to some extent consistent with what Malbrat and Goel view political participation as being dependent on factors like political motivations, social conditions (situations), and personal features.