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Faculty Member of the Department of Sociology, Tarbiat Modarres University
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M.A. in Sociology
Abstract
This project aims to propose municipal policies for promoting ethical citizenship in Tehran. The focus of this research is to identify and examine the factors involving in ethical citizenship, considering the limits and potentials of urban management in Tehran. Moving away from a general assessment of the adherence to ethical citizenship and the individual factors affecting this adherence, we conducted a comparative survey to measure the effects of the following variables on the degree of adherence to ethical citizenship: (1) the number of community centers in the neighborhood of residence and (2) the quality of interactions and coexistence with unknown others. The results showed that interactions and coexistence with unknown others positively influence the adherence to ethical citizenship; however, the empirical evidence did not illustrate any relationship between the number of community centers and the degree of ethical citizenship. According to these results, in our policy recommendations, we suggest that Tehran Municipality should focus on providing services to groups rather than individuals.
