Analysis of the effects of social capital in environmental ethics villagers A Case Study: Chaypareh Bala district, Zanjan Township

Now a day, environmental crisis resulting from uncontrolled human intervention has caused ideas on human interaction with the environment and also the concept of ethics and its importance in the preservation and optimal utilization of the environment considered by researchers. Due to this, the need of evaluation of the current human approaches towards nature regarding moral and ethical aspects will be emphasized. The existing study was conducted to analyze the effects of social capital in rural environmental ethics. Type of research is applied and its nature and method is Descriptive-Analysis. Data collection method is library and fieldwork (questionnaire) and data analysis was done by using descriptive (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (chi-square and linear regression). Population of The study were, Chaypareh Bala villagers of Zanjan city: 15022 people inhabitants in 3584 households in the 1390 census. Analysis Unit is rural households who are living in the village, in order to plan internal consistency and reliability of indicators, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.86. The results indicate, there is a statistically significant difference among independent variable social capital and dependent variable environmental ethics. Investigations of existing study show, based on social capital a significant difference obtained in rural environmental ethics and there is a direct relationship between them. So, we can say that with increase social capital, the environmental ethics increase too.