Social Capital and Alienation

This research aims at studying the relation between the amount of teachers’ social capital and their level of work alienation. The research is applied-descriptive and has been conducted with survey method. The sample population includes only 10442 teachers of elementary school in Tehran, out of them 374 ones were selected by two-stage cluster sampling. For assessment of social capital, Bullen & Onyx questionnaire was used and for work alienation, the research has utilized Ganster &Dwyer questionnaire respectively. Analyzing obtained data, Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient confirmed the reliability of questionnaire as well. The independent variable of this research is social capital and dependent variable is work alienation, while other variables such as gender, age, marital status, work experience, completion of in-service training course, and income were studied in this research. The obtained results demonstrate significant correlation between social capital and work alienation. Moreover among the ground variables, the acquired results from analysis of the data showed that all variables of the research except age had meaningful relation with work alienation.