TY - JOUR T1 - Cultural and Demographic Foundations of Social Trust in Iran TT - زمینه های جمعیت شناختی اعتماد اجتماعی در ایران JF - sabz-scds JO - sabz-scds VL - 8 IS - 3 UR - http://journals.sabz.ac.ir/scds/article-1-955-en.html Y1 - 2020 SP - 27 EP - 51 KW - Social Trust KW - Cultural and Demographic Foundations KW - Family KW - Relatives and Friends KW - Institutional Trust. N2 - This study primarily aims to examine the cultural and demographic foundations of social trust. The research findings presented and discussed in this paper are based on a survey that includes a total sample of 5200 males and females residing in varying rural and urban areas across Iran. In order to examine social trust more appropriately, it has been classified into three main domains: trust towards family members, trust towards relatives and friends, and trust towards the officials so-called ‘institutional trust’. Generally speaking, the results of this study have shown that about 95 per cent of the respondents trust family members. The corresponding proportions are approximately two-third and one-third for trust towards relatives and friends and towards institutional trust, respectively. Furthermore, the results have indicated that while the trust towards family members is not significantly affected by socio-demographic determinants, the opposite applies to the two other domains of social trust, particularly to the institutional trust. This suggests that the institutional trust in particular is substantially affected by such demographic determinants as age, gender, place of residence, and education as well as by the determinants associated with religiosity and gender attitude. M3 ER -