The Status of Citizenship In Sanandaj and It,s Contributing Factors

Citizenship has an inherent connection with democratic politics and is one of the fundamental indicators of social integration in multicultural societies.
The purpose of this study was to determine the citizenship status, the citizenship types and its aspects with emphasis on the rights and duties of citizenship among the citizens of Sanandaj.
This research is a survey by using a questionnaire tool for 400 Sanandaj citizens aged 18 to 54 years. Sampling method was multistage cluster. Findings show that the average citizenship status (enjoying citizenship rights and the practice of citizenship assignments) which is evaluated on the basis of a scale of 0-100 was 62.6% for respondents. Among the types of citizenship, the dominant type was active (37%) and the rights-based citizenship orientation (15%) was at the lowest level. Multivariate regression analysis shows that the citizenship status is related to the intensity of the relationship with available resources of citizens, social identity in national and ethnic dimensions, social capital, and utilization of mass media. These variables account for 65.4 percent of citizenship change.