Reflection of social participation in Sadi's Boostan

Social Capital is one of the important sociological approaches and has been the concern of other sciences too. The basis of this approach is social relations which has been defined as a capital alongside other types of capitals ( human, material, physical, and etc). Social capital has three characteristics of normativism, trust, and cooperation. The basics and principals of this theory dates back to the ancient intellectual's views including Soidi who has introduced his comprehensive theory for the achievement of the utopian society found on his frequent journeys, interaction with different people, and familiarity with the nuances of his era's societies. Boostan is an ethical – educational work. Relying on familiarity with sadi's social ideas and using documentation method this research has qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed Sadi's participation feature in Boostan and revealed that Sadi's frequency of participation in Boostan lags behind trust and normativism characteristics. It revealed that social participation had thehighest frequency. Relying the types of participation, the outward orientation participation which is an indicator of affective relation in Sadi's desired society has the most frequency and is placed after the reciprocal cooperation. Participation based on responsibilities sharing the specialized participation showed no frequency and this findings is congruent with other indicative societies of Sadi's era.