A Comparative Study of Social Apathy among Isfahan and Yazd University

In sociology literature, social apathy is often referred to as Social Pathology, which is a barrier to participation and development, and is a consequence of urbanization in the new age. The objectives of this study were to study and compare the social apathy and its factors among students of Isfahan and Yazd universities.The statistical population in this research is all students of Isfahan and Yazd universities in the academic year of 2015-2016, 379 of them were selected by proportional sampling method.The survey method was survey and data collection tool was a questionnaire. Content validity was used to measure validity and to determine reliability; the Cronbach's alpha method was used. According to the findings of the research, there is not a meaningful relationship between the degree of social apathy of students and the demographic variables such as income, gender and marital status.But there is a significant difference between the degrees of social apathy in terms of university. Also, in both universities, there is a significant relationship between independent variables (anomie and effectiveness) with social apathy. Also, the regression test showed that Anomie and effectiveness variables could explain 31% of the variance of social apathy.