The utilization level of social capital approach in Tabriz Universities

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine academic staff’s utilization levels of social capital. This study is a kind of quantitative research. The working group of this study is limited to Iran Tabriz Universities and the private Islam Azad University’s academic staff. A total of 92 academic staff were the key participants in this research. Of these, 32 academic staff also have some administrative duties. During this research, social capital scale was used in order to collect data. According to some findings, there are no statistically significant relationships between social capital utilization level and academic staff’s gender, education level, and seniority. But there is a meaningful statistical relationship between social capital utilization level and academic staff’s title. The meaningful difference has been detected between professors and lecturers.