Socio-Strategical Analysis of the Relationship between Social Capital and National Identity of Yasouj University Students

The social capital is one of important variables which has been considered by sociologists and social thinkers. Using a synthetic theoretical framework, this paper aimed to evaluate the relationship between National Identity and social capital of students. Using survey method, Statistics society had been Yasouj university students; from which 400 persons were determined based on Lin Sampling Table (1976) as sample size and were selected by classified-multi stage random sampling method. A standard questionnaire was used as research tool for data collection, which face validity and Cronbach's alpha (National Identity=0/88 & Social capital=0.953) were used for its validity and reliability evaluation, respectively. The findings showed that there was a significant direct relationship between student's national identity and social capital and there was a significant relationship between national identity and “communications, “structural” and “cognitive” dimensions of social capital and there was not a significant relationship between the “historical” dimension of national identity and “structural” and “cognitive” dimensions of social capital. The national identity could explain 4.9 persent of social capital. The national identity and social capital have convergence with each other.