Investigating the Relationship between Cultural Capital and Social Participation among Youths of 15 to 24 years in the city of Ilam

The present study is aimed at understanding the relationship between cultural capital and the rate of social participation among the youths of Ilam in 1395. The statistical population included all the youths of the city of Ilam, aged 15 to 24, with 59,930 people based on the statistical year of 1395. The multi-stage cluster sampling method was used for extension. The sample size was 381 based on the Cochran formula. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. Data analysis was done through spss version 22 using two descriptive and inferential levels. At the level of descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used for frequency, percentage and mean, and at inferential level. The validity of the research tool was obtained through formal credibility and its reliability through the Cochran formula. The findings showed that the sig criterion of the mental dimension of cultural capital is equal to 0.000, which shows that there is a meaningful relationship between the mental dimension of cultural capital and social participation. The value of Pearson correlation coefficient is 974%, which shows a positive and strong correlation between the two variables, that is, the higher the cultural dimension of the mental dimension, social participation will increase. The two variables of cultural capitalization and social participation are significant at the level of 0.000; the correlation coefficient (0.950) of the two variables indicates a positive and strong correlation, that is, with the growth of the objective dimension of cultural capital, there is a tendency towards social participation among Ilam youths. Significance between the institutional dimension of cultural capital and social participation (0.000) and the correlation coefficient (0.928) indicates the significance of the relationship and the positive and strong correlation between the two variables; that is, the increase in the institutional dimension of cultural capital increases the rate of social participation among the youth of the city of Ilam.