A Study of The Feeling of Possessing Citizenship Rights and Social Factors Affecting It Among Youth of 15-29 Years in Sirjan

Citizenship is not only a situation in which a person has a set of rights and duties. The feeling of possessing citizenship rights is the main point of being a citizen, which has very important role in strengthening social foundations and the realization of citizenship rights. Therefore, the present study investigates the feeling of possessing citizenship rights and the social factors affecting it among youth of 15-29 years in Sirjan. In order to conduct this study, scaling study and questionnaire were used for gathering data. The population in this research includes the youth of 15-29 years in Sirjan, and the sampling method was multistage cluster. Based on the Cochran formula, the size of the sample was 380 people. In short, the following results have been obtained: at the level of description, the findings of the research showed an average feeling of possessing citizenship rights among the youth. Also, the degree of the presence of the individual in the public sphere, the type of sociability of the individual in the family and the use of domestic and international media had an impact on the feeling of possessing citizenship rights of the youth.