A Survey of Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting Responsible Environmental Behavior (Case Study: Citizens of Khorramabad)

Now a day, environmental problems have deep socio-cultural meanings. According of this, the aim of present research is the study of the relationship between socio-cultural factors with environmental behaviors among citizens in khoramabad city. The framework theory is Burdio’s cultural capital. The method of the research is survey and the amount of sample are 384 citizens in ages 19-69 years old that are selected by multi-stage clustering sample. The main technique of gathering data were research-made and standard questionnaire with suitable relaibility and validity. Findings showed; thear are significant relationship among gender, age, and income, and environmental awareness, lifestyle, using social networks, cultural capital and legalism with environmental behaviors. Regression analysis showed that from five damensions of Lifestyle damensions of environmental health and social health and from three damensions of Legalism damensions of knowledje wholly could explain roughly fourty six percent of responsible environmental behaviors variance.