Document Type : Science - Research (Political Science)

Author

• Heidar Shahriari

Ph.D Student in Political Sociology at Allameh Tabatabaei University

Abstract

Politics that is the area of managing society, and makes the practical rules of political relationships among social forces regulated, can be evaluated from different points of view in terms of categories, groups and casts. Among them, students are as a social force that their points of view regarding politics and the relative matters are important to survey. In addition, it seems that the learners of different fields of study, practically and theoretically, have different attitudes towards politics. In fact, the differences available among human and natural sciences, in respect of their methods and matters, and also their environments and studied phenomena, affect the student political attitude. This research that has been done by survey method and questionnaire tool upon 264 students of Tehran university (based on Morgan table), and based on multi-stage cluster method, shows that there is a relationship between the different university fields of study (engineering, medical sciences, literary and art sciences) and their political attitudes (political attitude aspects: political participation, political legitimacy, political identity, political tendency towards political wings and political power). In other words, the human science students differ in political attitudes in comparison with other groups of students regarding their field of study. Upon the research findings, the validation of this hypothesis is resulted from this point that the human science students differ in three aspects of political attitudes- political participation, their political tendency towards political wings, and political identity- in comparison with other groups of student field of study. And it also shows that there is no meaningful relationship regarding other two aspects. 

Keywords

• political attitude
• field of study
• human sciences
• natural science
• Tehran university