Socio-Economic Status and The Attitude Toward Political Participation Case Study of Khorramabad City

Participation provides conditions in which all citizens regardless of their ethnic affiliations, personal beliefs, or interests can affect all social phenomena in proportion to their degree of skills and mental capacities. One important aspect of participation is political participation.Establishing a democratic system requires an appropriate social and cultural basis. Hence the scientific study of these fields can also pave the way for achieving democracy. Such a study aims at identifying and introducing appropriate patterns of political participation for the social system in the country. Actions, communications and the levels of political participation of individuals in any society are largely influenced by their social and economic differences. Hence this research attempts to answer such vital question; to see if there is any significant relationship between the research variables: social and economic status and the kind of attitudes toward the political participation. The research type is quantitative and methodology of the study is sample survey. The dependent variable is political participation which is measured at six levels: level of party and electoral activity, contact with authorities, sending messages to the officials, action to solve problems, protest action, and ballot action. The independent variable is social and economic status that has been calculated with three indicators: literacy level, income, and occupational status. The questionnaire was the main tool for data.