The psychosocial construct of “social cohesion,” understood as social behaviors indicating trust, reciprocity, and concern for the well-being of the members of one’s community, is the key determinant of health in the “income inequality and social cohesion model” model (Ref. 1, p. 211). Social cohesion is defined as participation in public affairs, civic responsibility or involvement in public l...

Existing survey-based studies of political participation can be grouped into those that model participation in each activity independently (with most of them focusing on voter turnout), and those that model overall participation based on aggregate indicators of civic engagement. In this paper I develop and apply a new approach for the study of civic engagement based on simultaneous modeling of ...

the article aims to consider factors affecting on the social participation of citizens 18 to 64 years old in the civic affairs in mashhad. the method was survey and the population included all the all inhabitants of mashhad. sample size was 348 respondents who were selected by proportionate systematic sampling strategy for interviewing. the results showed that participation mean is 3.19 out of ...

The rhetoric of open government data (OGD) promises that data transparency will lead to multiple public benefits: economic and social innovation, civic participation, public-private collaboration, and public accountability. In reality much less has been accomplished in practice than advocates have hoped. OGD research to address this gap tends to fall into two streams – one that focuses on data ...

Social class differences in civic engagement persist for both youth and adults. Althoughempiricalevidence ismixed, several recentsocial changespertainingtoyouthsuggest that social inequalities in civic engagement may be growing over time for young people. Using data from theNational Election Study, we compared trends for youth and older adults of varying education levels and tested the hypothes...

Youth involvement in extracurricular activities reflects both family socialization influences and civic development. Parents can promote such activity through examples set by personal involvement in the community and through reinforcement of their children's interests. Using data (N = 362) from the 9th and 10th grade waves of the Iowa Youth and Families Project (Conger & Elder, 1994), we find t...

Copyright © 2000, Idea Group Publishing. Robert Putnam (1993) has developed a theory of social capital to explain the effect of decreasing community participation and civic engagement on declining institutional performance. Subsequently, there has been much speculation as to whether emerging virtual communities can counteract this trend. We apply the findings of computer-mediated communication ...

While student perceptions of the fairness and trustworthiness of educational institutions have been shown to relate to civic participation, this relationship has not been extended to issues of continued participation in the education system. Using data from the IEA Civic Education Study of 14-yearolds, measures of trust in schools and perceptions of educational inequality are examined in their ...