Political Participation of Human Science Students with other Student's Field of Study(Case study: Tehran University Students)

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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political participation is one of the most important concepts of political development and democracy in a society and according to social and political scientist's belief this is the most significant and effective social activity in comparison with other social and political activity. Therefore, it is an undeniable necessity to educate individuals for social development based on the best idea, thought and mind to participate in political affairs. One of these methods is to take the development of human sciences into consideration, on the one hand, and benefiting from these field actors (including experts, professors, students, et.c.) in different social and political fields, on the other hand. The aim of this research is to show the relationship between political participation of human science students in comparison with other student's field of study and the findings also show that human science students participate in political affairs more than other Student's field of study.
The hypothesis of this research is that human science students participate in political affairs more than other Student's field of study and it is to survey this relationship by survey method and questionnaire tool. Therefore, based on multi-stage cluster method and considering Statistical population of the master students of Tehran university (and statistic sample based on Morgan table), the different university fields of study are divided into four groups (engineering, medical sciences and literary and art sciences) and the distributed questionnaires among them were analyzed by SPSS tool and in a mold of descriptive statistics indicators (frequency percent, standard deviation and mean) and inferential statistics (variance analysis, T test and Tukeypost hoctest). The outcome of data indicates that human science students participate in political affairs more than other Student's field of study and this outcome also supports the research hypothesis.

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