A study of cultural citizenship in Karaj metropolis and its relationship with cultural capital and citizenship culture

Today, the cultural approach has become important in all matters, including urban management policy-making, and social systems support it. The aim of the research is to investigate cultural citizenship in Karaj metropolis and its relationship with cultural capital and citizenship culture. The research is descriptive-correlation and its method is survey. The statistical population was the citizens of Karaji aged 15-65, who were selected by cluster sampling according to Cochran's formula. The data was collected through a questionnaire and analyzed with the help of spss and Pearson correlation coefficient and regression. The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between cultural citizenship and citizenship culture, but there is no significant relationship between cultural citizenship and cultural capital. The result is that the citizens of Karaj have accepted the presence of other residents of that city, who are different from them in terms of language, race, ethnicity, in an urban complex, and they are familiar with their rights and duties towards other citizens. According to the cultural rights of citizens, each of the ethnicities, races and social religious minorities has the right to citizenship, and the culture of citizenship can be a factor to promote their cultural rights.