چکیده:
The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between social capital and national identity. Using Giddens' theory on identity and Wolkoff and Narayan's theory on social capital, this study employed a survey method to examine the relationship between social capital and national identity among 360 students at Shiraz University. The independent variables included demographic, socio-economic, social trust, participation, social interactions, religious orientation, and self-esteem variables. The dependent variable of the research is national identity. The findings of the research show that there is a significant relationship between the variables of place of birth, place of residence, social trust, participation, social interactions, and religious orientation with national identity. However, the relationship between the variables of age, gender, marital status, parents' education, family income, class status, and self-esteem with national identity was not significant. Additionally, there is a significant relationship between social capital and national identity. Multivariate regression analysis showed that four variables (religious orientation, social capital, place of birth, and age) collectively explained 32% of the changes in the dependent variable, national identity. Path analysis also showed that the religious orientation variable had a greater impact on national identity compared to other variables.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The results of this research indicate that the higher the level of social capital individuals possess within this structure—meaning this social capital includes a valuable set of mutual trust between individuals, social participation, social, psychological, and financial supports, the existence of kinship networks, and social interactions—the greater the sense of national belonging and, in other words, national identity will be.
Vahida, Fereydoun; Samad Kalantari and Abolghasem Fatehi (2004): "The relationship between social capital and the social identity of students (a case study of eleven public universities in Tehran city)," Isfahan University Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp.
However, the relationship between the variables of age, gender, marital status, parents' education, family income, social class, and self-esteem with national identity was not significant.
Multivariate regression analysis showed that four variables (religious orientation, social capital, place of birth, and age) collectively explained 32% of the changes in the dependent variable, national identity.
According to Chalabi (1375: 27), the quality of individual relationships and social interactions has different effects on the level of group cohesion and, consequently, national identity.
Therefore, since students are at the peak of their identity formation, and given the multiplicity of identity-forming sources in the modern era (considering educational centers as one of the references forming identity), awareness and information regarding how they define and perceive their own national identity as the highest level of collective identity, especially in multi-ethnic societies like our country, and factors related to this dimension of identity such as social capital, is essential for any kind of social and cultural planning.
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