An Analysis of Citizenship Culture and its Determinants (Case Study: Lorestan Province)

The aim of this study is to analyze the citizenship culture and its influential factors among residents of Lorestan province aged 18 to 65. The main questions of study are related to the status of citizenship culture in Lorestan province and the factors affecting it. The method of study is quantitative based on sample survey. Sample size of 852 were selected via Probability multi-stage sampling. The sample includes residents of Khoramabad, Broujerd, Alighodarz, Kouhdasht, Alashtar and Poldokhtar. From each city one town and two villages were selected based on their population .In the present study the Civil and New Republicanism approach and a combination of theories of Marshal, Turner, Janoski, Rothstein were utilized. The results of the data analysis show that the average score of Citizenship Culture Index is 108.07 out 140, which is relatively high. The results show that although there is a significant difference in citizenship culture based on the origin of citizenship (rural, tribal and urban), the mean scores of citizenship culture did not show a significant difference between men and women. There was also no significant relationship between the variables of socioeconomic status and the use of mass media with citizenship culture. The results of Pearson correlation test confirmed the positive and strong relationship between social identity, feeling of economic security, social trust and tendency to ethnic and tribal affiliation and perception of political system performance with citizenship culture. The results of the structural equation modeling with AMOS also show that the above variables can explain 53% of the total variance of the dependent variable of citizenship culture.