Sociological Study of Factors Affecting the Level of Political Participation of Khorramabad's High School Teachers, Iran (2013)

Political participation is to be considered as one of the primary socio-political development indicators in all countries. Teachers are among the leading social groups who have a significant role in the process of cultural and socio-political development. Their political participation as the cultural pioneers in the field of education could be salient especially for the political stability and dynamics of a country not at the current but in the future, too. Regarding above issues, this paper examines and scrutinizes sociologically the factors which might effect the level of political participation of Khorramabad's high school teachers. Thus, 310 high school teachers of Khorramabad have been spotted as the statistical samples of this survey whose opinion obtained by a questionnaire. The results are indicative of a meaningful correlation between independent variables (media, social trust, social participation and sexuality) and dependent ones (political participation).