خلاصة:
The aim of the present paper is to study the impact of public awareness and social
cohesion on social participation of women in Iran. Since women constitute half of the
population, their participation in political, economic, social and cultural areas can play an
important role in community development. The study employs modernization approach as the
conceptual framework and data collection is based on field and library methods. The target
population included 26,742 female students of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research
Branch of Tehran, out of which 480 individuals were selected as the study sample based on
simple random sampling. To analyze the data in the inferential statistics section, the coefficient
of TB and TC in the ordinal measurement level were first computed and then, due to promotion
of the measurement level from ordinal to interval, Pearson coefficient correlation and multiple
and univariate regressions were employed to assess the effects of the collective and
simultaneous independent variables on the dependent variable. Analysis of variance was used
to verify hypotheses and statistical significance of the effects of the variables. The findings
showed that the research hypotheses, including universality, solidarity and interaction with
others, socio-economic status, public awareness, and the research assumptions were all
confirmed at a significance level of 0.0001.
ملخص الجهاز:
ISSN: 2476-5198, SSYJ 2017, 7 (24), 23-38 The Effect of Public Awareness and Social Cohesion on the Social Participation of Women (Case study: Female Students from Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran) Ghorbanali Aghaahmady1 Narges Mollae *2 Mahnaz Rahmati 3 Received 25 September 2015; Accepted 25 March 2016 Abstract The aim of the present paper is to study the impact of public awareness and social cohesion on social participation of women in Iran.
Since women constitute half of the population, their participation in political, economic, social and cultural areas can play an important role in community development.
The findings showed that the research hypotheses, including universality, solidarity and interaction with others, socio-economic status, public awareness, and the research assumptions were all confirmed at a significance level of 0.
The world today is moving towards transferring more responsibility to people because the importance of public participation in general and national development of countries has become evident and social planners utilize various forms of democratic and participatory planning, because they believe that people’s inclusive participation in program issues and community affairs is one of the main factors in the success of programs and projects.
The present research, therefore, aims to study the effect of public awareness and social cohesion on women’s social participation among female students of Islamic Azad University, Sciences and Research Branch in Tehran.
Most topics of the structural-functional theory have been presented in connection with the development and participation in terms of modernization approach and in cultural, political and social dimensions.
Women students of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Sciences and Research Branch, were selected as the study population at the micro level of analysis for the study of barriers to social participation.