@article{2018,title={ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP IN RURAL AREA: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY},abstractNode={Beginning from 1990s, citizenship has been a widely discussed issue worldwide in theoretical and empirical studies. Despite this interest, there is still a need to study the subject in various settings and dimensions. In addition to general citizenship behaviors such as voting, and participation and engagement for democratic government, rural area has a unique structure and problematic issues, such as agricultural policies, environmental problems, water problems, forest policies, expropriation, land problems, education problems, health problems, street illumination, problems that are common in rural areas worldwide. This study deals with citizenship issue in the context of rural area. Researching the issue of citizenship such as in rural area setting, which is not sufficiently studied, will hopefully yield substantial results. In the study, active citizenship qualities and behaviors of participants aged 18 years and over living in rural areas were studied. For date collection, Active Citizenship Questionnaire was applied to 162 participants living 12 villages of six provinces located in five geographic regions in Turkey. Results from the study indicated that gender and educational level variables in particular have a dominant influence on active citizenship behaviors.},author={Hakan ARSLAN-- Sedat YAZICI - Kemal DİL - Ensar ÇETİN},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}