Azar Rashtiani; Seyfollah Seyfollahi; Gholam Abbas Tavassoli; Mohammad Reza Javadi Yegane
Volume 16, Issue 35 , June 2017, , Pages 9-28
Abstract
This paper is to investigate the sociological aspects of the formation and development of global citizenship in young people. The statistical population is all of young students in Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran that 280 students were selected as statistical sample.
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This paper is to investigate the sociological aspects of the formation and development of global citizenship in young people. The statistical population is all of young students in Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran that 280 students were selected as statistical sample.
In theoretical foundations have been used related theories to this field and at the end of the research theoretical model has been designed. This research has been done using field studies and survey method. The data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire and distributed to respondents after validation and reliability estimation. The result shows that there are significant relationship between the experience of globalization, tourism, civil participation, social skills and educational environment, and the formation and expansion of global citizenship as dependent variables.
But there are no significant relationship between national media and formation and development of global citizenship. Using the lisrel Structural Equation Model, among all these factors, it was found that social skills, civic participation and globalization experience are three factors that had the greatest impact. It was found that all these three factors: social skills, civil participation and experience are of greatest impact in globalization. But, in the meantime, civil partnership has most influential in formation and expanding the global citizenship of young people.