Studying the peculiarities of social capital among the Yezidi rural population of Armenia (focusing on the alterations of social trust)

This article is concerned with the peculiarities of social capital\nfocusing on the alterations of social trust and the social factors that\ninfluence it among the Yezidi rural population of Armenia. Our\ntheoretical framework has been adopted from the following theorists:\nthe theory of social system in terms of the theory of action: Parsons\nand the theory of structure-agency: Giddens. Our sample contained\n300 above 20-years old residents Yezidi rural population of the\nRepublic of Armenia. When validity and reliability of our questionnaire\nwere tested, we applied survey research to collect data for\nanalysis.There is difference between kinds of trust and they don�t have\nthe same mean. The mean of basic trust was 16%, generalized trust-\n15% and abstract trust mean was 74%. Thus, our study shows that in\nthe society under study the rate of basic trust is not less than other\nkinds of trust. In other words, the mean of basic trust is more than\ngeneralized trust but less than abstract trust. The findings indicate\nthat l That is, by increasing the social values of the target society, the\nrate of social trust increases, and vice versa. So, the social values were\nnot considerably affecting the state of social trust in the society under\nstudy. The value of the correlation coefficient was positive, and this\nshows that by increasing the rate of religious tenets, the level of social\ntrust will increase subsequently, and vice versa.