Studying the peculiarities of social capital among the Yezidi rural population of Armenia: focusing on the alterations of social trust
- Autores: Akbar Valadbigi, Bagrat Harutyunyan
- Localización: SCS Journal, ISSN-e 2225-2215, Vol. 1, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 113-130
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article is concerned with the peculiarities of social capital focusing on the alterations of social trust and the social factors that influence it among the Yezidi rural population of Armenia. Our theoretical framework has been adopted from the following theorists:
the theory of social system in terms of the theory of action: Parsons and the theory of structure-agency: Giddens. Our sample contained 300 above 20-years old residents Yezidi rural population of the Republic of Armenia. When validity and reliability of our questionnaire were tested, we applied survey research to collect data for analysis.There is difference between kinds of trust and they don�t have the same mean. The mean of basic trust was 16%, generalized trust- 15% and abstract trust mean was 74%. Thus, our study shows that in the society under study the rate of basic trust is not less than other kinds of trust. In other words, the mean of basic trust is more than generalized trust but less than abstract trust. The findings indicate that l That is, by increasing the social values of the target society, the rate of social trust increases, and vice versa. So, the social values were not considerably affecting the state of social trust in the society under study. The value of the correlation coefficient was positive, and this shows that by increasing the rate of religious tenets, the level of social trust will increase subsequently, and vice versa.
