Sociological explanation of the factors associated with Social apathy

Social apathy is defined as “not participating in social issues, disappointment, be unconcern to social issues, lack of civic involvement as a citizen, and inattentiveness to social, political, and cultural issues.
This study was conducted using survey research and questionnaire along with historical and qualitative studies. The research statistical population includes two urban areas (Ghezel Ghaleh Quarter - district 6 of Tehran) and a rural area (Nezam Abad village, Islam Shahr).
The findings of this study shows that there is a significant correlation between social apathy and social trust, social satisfaction, social normlessness, the level of fatalism, and feeling of injustice, both in urban and rural areas. This means that an increase or decrease in these variables leads to change in the social apathy. Meanwhile, the effect of distrust variables in urban society and social dissatisfaction in rural society was more obvious.