Social Justice Feeling in Birjand City and Its Influential Factors

Abstract

Abstract The issue of justice has been among the main thoughtful human’s concerns; and its nature as well as its achievement has always been one of essential and fundamental questions. The present study revolved around the issue of social justice feeling which was measured through survey method and questionnaire tool in Birjand city. The study population was all dwellers of Birjand city; and its sample size was determined to be 384 people using Cochran formula and multi-stage cluster sampling method. Furthermore, the theories of John Ralz and MortezaMotahari were used in the theoretical framewok of the study. According to John Ralz’s theory, variables of “social base”, “relative deprivation feeling”, and “social cooperation”; and according to Motahari’s theory, variables of “reliance on authorities”, and “religiousity” were tested as influential factors on social justice feeling. The results revealed that there was a significant correlation between variables of “relative deprivation feeling”, “social cooperation”, “reliance on authorities”, “religiousity”, and “age” with social justice feeling. On the other hand, no significant correlation was found between the variables of “social base”, gender, marital status, education level, occupation status, and dwelling place with social justice feeling. Additionally, the results of multi-variate regression indicated that “religiousityus”, “social cooperation”, “relative deprivation feling”, and “reliance on authorities” account for 40% of the dependent variable changes (social justice feeling).