Roots and Causes of Political Apathy

Volume 8, Issue 1 - Serial Number 28
Spring 2024
Pages 161-179

Document Type : Original Independent Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran

2 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil; Iran,

Abstract
Political apathy refers to unconcern, boredom with politics, anxiety or discouragement to political behavior and events. In a way that today, in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, this issue manifests itself in the form of coups, insurgency, protests and divergences in government policies. This study intends to analyze the roots of political apathy from the perspective of political paradigm (Lerner and Dahl), and; from the social perspective (Durkheim, Weber, Marx and Bourdieu). The political paradigm examines the roots of political apathy from the perspective of government, class, and development, while; the social paradigm examines the roots of political apathy in the dimensions of social space, social relations, social field, and the interaction between agency and structure. Comparison and analysis of political and social paradigms show that the root of political apathy from Lernz's point of view is the lack of social empathy of traditional man (traditional thinking, closed geographical system and lack of spirit of modernization),

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