Social Development & Welfare Planning

Sociological analysis of the relationship between social capital and subject welfare(Case study: Lorestan University students)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

morad baradaran
nouredin alahdadi
alimohammad Javadi

Department of sociology , Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/qjsd.2023.69777.2403
Abstract
The aim of current research was
Sociological analysis relations between social capital dimension (network, partnership and social trust) with subject welfare in lorestan university .We used two theories Putnam for social capital and composing theory for subject welfare. All of student of lorestan university involed in this study. By using the chockran formula, the sample size of this study was 384 persons. Stratified random sampling (proportional allocation) was used to sampling. With regards to the aim of research, this is a correlational study. For data gathering we used the subject welfare and social capital questionnaires which confirmed its reliability and validity. In this study, designed paths for research suggest model, showed that their hypothesis. Therefore, to investigation of this hypothesis, Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (path analysis) by using the SPSS soft ware. The results show that the designed model for this study has the perfect fitting with gathered data. Also the results of fitting model showed that the significant straight paths (straight effects) of social network to subject welfare, social trust to subject welfare and two tailed paths (interactive effects) among social network and social partnership, social network and social trust, social partnership and social trust. In addition, in fitting model only straight path social partnership to subject welfare wasn’t significant so the hypothesis appropriate to this path doesn’t confirmed.

Keywords

Social capital
Social trust
Social partnership
Social netwoek
Subjects
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