Social Capital of Women and Their Value Orientation Toward Development

Intorduction: The aim of this study is to analyze the relation between social capital and those values which sociologists prescribe for the development of societies. Considering the fact that values have their roots in social macro structure، and regarding the appearance of women public sphere، the main research question is that، do woman''s modern values differ across diverse social capital. Therefore، this research has striven to explain the effect of women''s social capital on their values orientation. The research is a survey; questionnaires were given to 504، 15-45 women in Shiraz. For this purpose 342 students were chosen from different field of study by random sampling. The questioner has face construct validity and reliability credits. Cronbach''s Alpha is applied to assess reliability. To improvement of construct validity Factor analysis is applied. Social capital has a significant relation with globalism، universalism، rationality and desire to gain knowledge. social capital that always had been missed in development procedure has a significant relation with development related values. In other words it has a determining effect on improvement of women’s cognition about development related values.