بررسي جامعه شناختي نگرش شهروندان زنجاني به قوميت گرايي ( مطالعه موردي پان تركيسم )

Sociological Survey on Zanjan Citizensʹ Vision toward Ethnicity (Pan-Turkism Case study)

One of the important issues in the Middle East is that political borders do not match with ethnic and cultural borders. The political borders of our country are in a way that Kurds, Arabs, Balouchs and Turkmens are resident in western and eastern edges of the country. In other words, some of these races are spread in different corners of the country. The main purpose of the present survey is making a sociological survey on Zanjan. In the meantime, the present survey has dealt with some minor objectives such as evaluating the relationship between contextual parameters (age, gender, education, place of residence, job type, etc.) and type of vision toward ethnicity, identifying the level of purposefulness and awareness of ethnicity-oriented gatherings among citizens, being aware of the citizensʹ vision toward the impacts of ethnicity-oriented activities such as Pan-Turkism over reducing unity and national integration; and recognizing the manner police forces control ethnicity-oriented gatherings. The statistical community in the present survey includes all the Zanjan citizens over 18 and N=150. The sampling approach is categorized and simple random type. The research approach has been quantitative, and the required information has been gathered through using questionnaire through survey and site survey. The tool used for data analysis was SPSS and EXCEL. Meanwhile, the data has been analyzed through using T tests, variance analysis, correlation coefficient related to the measurement level of the research variables. Having a glance at the major results of analyzing the data of the present research, one can notice the following: There is a significant relationship between variables of age, gender, income and job with peopleʹs vision toward ethnicity orientation. Over 76 percent of the respondents have positively assessed the performance of police forces in controlling ethnicity-oriented protests and have said that gatherings and/or demonstrations in the province are not purposeful. According to the results of the comments and visions introduced by people under consideration, the media, base don their importance, which have the highest influence on ethnic movement in the province are as follows: 1- Foreign media (satellite, ctc.); 2- l.R.I.B; 3-Internet; 4-Press; and 5- Local press