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A national system of education in modern nation-states is usually geared towards nation-building and schools play a significant role in grooming children as future citizens. While the dominant and powerful usually emerge as the 'ideal citizen' in the national imagination, the marginalized are constructed as the 'other', vilified, and stigmatised. The school, with its overt and hidden curriculum, operates as a major site for the reproduction of dominant ideology while at the same time creating opportunities for exercising human agency. This article, an ethnographic study, conducted in a government co-educational school in Delhi examines how it sought to mould the students into 'ideal' citizens and how this was received by them. Belonging to a relatively lower socio-economic background compared to the teaching community did they give their acquiescence? Or were they able to exercise their agency to challenge the entrenched power structures in society? Were their responses shaped by their specific social locations and the unfolding of 'cultural politics'? Moreover, when the nature of 'official knowledge' itself has undergone radical shifts and the idea of citizenship has been redefined with the introduction of the National Curriculum Framework 2005, were the students able to leverage the epistemological shifts embodied in the textbooks to reimagine and construct ideas of citizenship regarding marginalised communities? These are some questions that the present article seeks to address. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of technology-, organisation- and environment-readiness, smart economic development, change valence, social cohesion and quality of life on citizenship in the context of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a customized questionnaire which was completed by 280 residents of China's first-tier cities. This study tested the framework using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique. Findings: The results indicated that smart economy development, social cohesion, change valence, technological readiness, organizational readiness and environmental readiness have a significant impact on the quality of life. Quality of life has a positive impact on citizenship. Originality/value: This study adds new insights to smart city academic discussions. The study addresses a critical gap identified in existing literature which urges the need for a balance between user-centric, organization-centric and technology-centric approaches. It offers a fresh perspective on how the smart economy, social cohesion and readiness factors are interlinked. These elements together shape urban living experiences. For policymakers and urban planners, our findings provide clear guidance. They highlight the complex dynamics that must be considered to build more unified, inclusive and sustainable smart cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global and regional environmental problems persist to this day, posing serious threats to the world and Lebanon. There is a data gap regarding environmental citizenship in Lebanon, despite numerous investigations and research done in relation to environmental problems. Current Lebanese eco-citizenship behaviours should be investigated. This article aims to quantitatively investigate Lebanese higher education students' environmental citizenship. In this study, a survey method is used with a comparative approach and factorial analyses. The sample consisted of 355 Lebanese university students from 16 Lebanese educational institutions. Results show that participants declare relatively high environmental citizenship motivations, competences, and intentions. Conversely, they report low environmental past activities. Demographic factors such as gender, age, university (private vs. public), academic year, and major yielded significant differences among the measured factors. This paper encourages establishing feedback mechanisms to gather input from students on environmental educational programmes implementing sensitization and active youth participation in environmental sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The term Miyah has a specific meaning in Assam. Unlike in other parts of India, where it is used to address a gentleman in an honourable way, in Assam it is a pejorative term that refers to the community of Assamese Muslims of Bengali origin. This community is now reclaiming this identity through various forms of creative expression including poetry. The perpetual "other" in Assamese nationalist assertions, the Miyah until recently was accorded very little agency in the popular imagination. Miyah poetry emerged as a powerful mode of resisting injustice and suffering during the preparation of the National Register of Citizens in Assam (NRC), a complex and tedious bureaucratic exercise that could render a huge section of the population "undocumented migrants." This is a genre of poetry that is resisting two kinds of power relationships - the hegemony of the Assamese language and the class hierarchy associated with the term Miyah in everyday usage. I argue that there is an explicit gender dimension of the word Miyah which has remained largely unexplored. The question of citizenship has different implications for men and women within the Miyah community, and it merits our attention to explore this difference through a feminist reading of Miyah poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By examining what transpires at school for children of mixed-status immigrant families in what is spoken and what is kept silent, Figueroa demonstrates students' depth of understanding of their own immigration status and how it shapes their self-identity. Through this collaborative longitudinal research, citizenship and self-advocacy are explored in a manner that amplifies marginalized students' voices and expertise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article delves into the ongoing debate between the aggregation and entity models of class actions, particularly in light of recent Supreme Court rulings on personal jurisdiction and Article III standing. Courts, such as the Sixth and Seventh Circuits, have rejected the application of the Bristol-Myers decision to absent plaintiffs in class actions, emphasizing the unique status of absent class members and the representative nature of class actions. The differing approaches to standing and personal jurisdiction in class actions reflect the complexities of balancing fairness to both defendants and plaintiffs, with courts grappling with the entity-aggregation distinction in determining the nature of the class action device. [Extracted from the article]

The biometric identity project in India called Aadhaar was established with the purported intent of giving every resident of India a unique ID to ensure that social security measures and other welfare mechanisms would reach the last mile. The collection of biometrics (fingerprints, eye scans and photographs), it was emphasised, was to ensure that no duplicates were created and each ID would be unique, and thus was built the world's largest data management project. However, since then, there have been several problems of duplication, implementation issues, failure of infrastructure, security breaches and privacy issues. Buttressing the digital identity project have been several moves to push digitalisation in other spheres as well. The article intends to study this digitalisation of individual identity in India and posit that there are several pockets of resistance that challenge this framing of the digitalised citizen as a data subject and the reduction of individual identity into biometrics alone. There are two people's movements that show how this digital turn towards a technological understanding of citizenship is being challenged: the widespread peaceful protests of 2019–2020 against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and the 2015–2016 Save the Internet campaign for net neutrality. This author hopes to show that both online and offline, the ideas of what it means to be a citizen of India remain in flux, challenging the notion of a passive data subject and positing a political, rights-bearing citizen in opposition to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the positive consequences of procedurally just behavior by the police during interactions with citizens is alleged to be citizen willingness to cooperate with the police. While there have been numerous studies that have examined this issue, many have involved samples of adults and assessed citizen willingness to engage in certain behaviors in the future. Using data collected from a sample of high school aged youth, the present study explores the extent to which they report engaging in behaviors supportive of the police when given the opportunity, and the factors associated with reporting suspicious and/or criminal behaviors to the police. Implications for law enforcement policy and for understanding citizen engagement in the coproduction of police outputs are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The enforcement of sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) for Muslim homosexual and transgender individuals in Iran to confirm them into binary gender/sex exacerbates their ordeal. Farizan’s If You Could Be Mine explores the predicament and negotiation of its Muslim lesbian protagonist, Sahar, who attempts to re-envision the cultures of citizenship and belongingness to home. This paper, therefore, examines Sahar's experience by drawing on Arthur Bradley’s nihilopolitical concept of unbearable life. It explores how the homosexual identity and belongingness of Sahar are erased through the nihilopolitics of religio-cultural and Iranian state nexus, and how she deals with it and gives birth to a new politics of resistance. I argue that Sahar’s deliberate continuation of her homosexuality and her decision not to emigrate to some liberal country (even when she was offered the opportunity) is a conscious attempt at fighting to redefine the conceptual and affective space of belongingness to the state and the imaginary gendered home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this brief Conversations essay, I trace how immigrant suffrage in the United States deteriorated in the 19th century and argue that the US should move toward creating a pathway for noncitizen voting for two reasons--a more representative democracy and for a smoother assimilation process into American culture. Noncitizens contribute economically and socially to their communities, and they often have the same investment in their community's welfare as citizens. Expanding voting rights to noncitizens, even if only at the local-level, would give them a voice in decisions that affect their everyday lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whatever the nature of the contemporary climate crisis, its status has become an aspect of global politics. Whether the nature of this necessity is natural or political is the question. The idea of natural necessity is driving the political necessity of the acceptance of a range of frameworks concerning governance. The climate is being symbolically represented via powerful institutional agencies carrying out a labor of legitimation. How will this affect the ground of public existence? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intersex infants and individuals are subjected to inhuman violations, such as intrusive medical procedures and discriminating practices, all over the world. In India, it is a direct violation of the fundamental rights bestowed upon citizens. The article looks critically at the introduction of a third category, 'intersex'/'cannot be identified', in birth and death registrations in Kerala. By locating the discourse within larger global discourses on intersexuality in general, and around gender minorities and sex minorities in India in particular, it argues that the legal recognition of intersexuality through the introduction of the third category but without other structural changes is a superficial attempt at fulfilling the imperatives of inclusion and recognition of intersex individuals as citizens with fundamental rights. A holistic approach that considers the legal, sociocultural and economic dimensions is required for the well-being of intersex infants and individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores how Italy's reluctance to confront its colonial and fascist past, along with deeply ingrained essentialist notions of national identity, citizenship, and belonging, continues to influence discursive interventions, including counter-hegemonic efforts. By focusing on the less explored arena of the progressive cultural politics of citizenship, the study explores how processes of omission and forgetting infiltrate discourses advocating for inclusion and citizenship rights. Drawing on a framework influenced by postcolonial and cultural studies and guided by thematic and framing analysis, this study examines the discursive constructions of "newness," "inclusion," and "moderation" sustained by deliberate or unconscious omissions within a variety of texts sourced from political-institutional, scholarly, and advocacy arenas. The study argues that discursive omissions, on the one hand, sustain a careful and moderate politics of negotiation with the dominant regime of representation to secure the advancement of the citizenship reform project, while, on the other hand, they perpetuate essentialist models of national identity rather than reclaiming inherently and historically transcultural national belonging and citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the concept of "multidimensional forgetting" and the theoretical framework of the special issue Italian Amnesias: Multidimensional Forgetting in Contemporary Italy. Building on recent developments in memory studies, postcolonial studies, Black Mediterranean geographies, political theory, narrative hermeneutics, and Italian literary and cultural studies, the introduction argues that to understand Italy's relationship with its past, we need to consider multiple forms of forgetting and weave together the concepts of cultural memory and political responsibility. Italy's difficulties in coming to terms with its past are the result of enduring cultural narratives that have shaped a self-absolving doxa about Italy's past wrongdoings and ongoing structural violence. To challenge the cultural stereotypes, national myths, and narrative habits that feed the disavowal of Italy's implication in histories and present scenes of violence, we need to consider the multiple causes, means, and effects of Italy's distorted self-image. This introduction invites us to do so by addressing Italy's politics of memory in a cross-referencing, expansive, and intersectional fashion and by introducing the ten articles included in the special issue. The goal of these contributions is to map the construction of social forgetting in Italy's cultural and public debates, explore its consequences throughout the decades, and identify attempts to counter it through forms of critical interaction that foster transcultural solidarity and responsibility. We aim to intervene in Italy's relationship with its past in order to problematize the present and the future of a country that is currently at the heart of the global far-right, white nationalism, and neo-fascist political resurgence, and that plays a crucial role in the racially exclusionary politics of Fortress Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay complicates pervasive claims of amnesia about Italy's fascist and colonial pasts by examining the "migrated archives" produced by decolonization in tandem with emerging migrant archives designed to give voice to those experiences often excluded from state or other official archives. Archives, understood here in the broadest sense, thus serve as critical sites in which to investigate processes of multidimensional and multidirectional remembering, particularly those associated with Italy's many, entangled migrations. The analysis asks: how might a notion of "multidirectional diasporas" inform imaginings by scholars and activists alike of new forms of solidarity and more inclusive forms of citizenship? While taking cues from Michael Rothberg's writings on the multidirectionality of the Holocaust, transatlantic slavery, and colonialism as "singular yet relational histories," the discussion also draws upon Rothberg and Yasemin Yildiz's productive concept of memory citizenship to describe a form of belonging that draws upon what they refer to as migrant archives of remembrance. Memory citizenship offers a critical tool for remapping Italy's migrant (and migration) archives in ways that take account of a diversity of diasporic histories, most notably those being recuperated by scholars of the black Mediterranean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of international medical graduates (IMGs) entering radiology residencies and neuroradiology fellowships averaged 9.7% and 20.9% from 2021 to 2023, respectively. We aimed to determine whether IMG graduates are populating leadership roles at a proportionate rate in diagnostic radiology (DR) and neuroradiology. We surveyed 191 DR program directors, 94 neuroradiology program directors (PDs), 192 chairs of radiology, and 91 directors of neuroradiology inquiring about their original citizenship and medical school (American Medical Graduates [AMG] vs IMG). We reviewed institutional websites to obtain missing data and recorded H indices for each person using Scopus. We confirmed the original citizenship and medical school location in 61–75% and 93–98% of each leadership group. We found that 16.2% of DR program directors, 43.7% of neuroradiology PDs, 28.5% of Chairs, and 40.6% of neuroradiology directors were not originally US citizens. The IMG rate was 18/188 (9.6%), 20/90 (22.2%), 26/186 (14.0%), and 19/85 (22.4%) for the same groups respectively. The most common country of origin and medical school cited was India for all leadership groups. IMGs had a median H index of 14 while AMG 10, significantly different (p = 0.021) Compared to the rate of diagnostic and neuroradiology trainees entering from 2021 to 2023, IMGs are proportionately represented at the leadership positions studied. The H index of the IMGs was higher than AMG. We conclude that IMGs have made substantial and proportionate inroads in radiology and neuroradiology leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study aims to understand participants’ perspectives on the prevailing conditions and practices of inculcating democratic values and how these values can be instilled among secondary school students. A qualitative research design was employed to execute this study and a purposive sampling technique was used to select twelve study participants including seven secondary school teachers and five students from the Sahiwal division of the Province of Punjab, Pakistan. An interview guide was constructed to conduct in-depth interviews with these participants which lasted for 53 minutes on average. After data gathering, thematic analysis was performed on the interview transcripts following six steps of the analysis i.e., familiarization, coding, categorizing, generating themes, reviewing themes, and writing up for the analysis. The emerging themes include perceptions of democratic values, inculcation of democratic values, democratic principles of schools, and challenges and issues of inculcation. The themes revealed that the situation regarding inculcation of democratic values among school students was not encouraging although teachers were struggling with many limitations. It is recommended to address the challenges and issues related to curriculum, school environment, school administration, class size, teachers’ and parents’ training, and promoting democratic literacy among the parents. The study has implications for promoting democracy in the school and society for the larger interest of the county. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Sabine F. Cadeau's book, 'More than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands', which investigates the 1937 massacre under Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship and argues for its classification as genocide. Topics include the historical context of racial violence against Haitians, the impact of Executive Order 372 on ethnic profiling, and the ongoing struggles of Haitian-Dominicans for recognition and justice.

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This study aims to determine the antecedents of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Service Quality at Private Universities in North Sumatra. This study uses an explanatory research approach, which aims to explain the causal relationship between the research variables and the testing hypothesis. The population in this study were all administrative employees from the 5 best private Islamic tertiary institutions in North Sumatra and the sample size in this study was 200 administrative employees from PTS in North Sumatra. The data analysis method used in this study is factor analysis and the Structural Equation Model. The results of the study show that work ethics, organizational commitment, motivation and organizational justice have a significant positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior.Organizational Citizenship Behavior has a significant positive effect on Service Quality at Private Universities in North Sumatra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article explores the concept of a tacit constitution, which refers to the unspoken and implicit aspects of a society that are not captured in formal constitutions. It draws inspiration from the ideas of tacit knowledge, reverie, and dialogue to uncover hidden truths and deepen our understanding of society. The article argues for a more holistic and inclusive approach to constitutionalism that incorporates the senses, memory, and a recognition of vulnerability. By reimagining knowledge and embracing creativity, we can reimagine the constitution and the visions of democracy that come with it. [Extracted from the article]

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This article explores the concept of the effective nationality in international investment law, emphasising a marked departure hom the traditional rules of diplomatic protection. While many scholars support the use of the Nottebohm genuine link test, as a part of customary international law for addressing nationality issues in investment law, this article offers an alternative perspective. It challenges the status of the genuine link test in general international law and its direct application in investor-state disputes. The article reveals that, in the absence of explicit provisions in investment treaties, arbitral tribunals often avoid assessing the effectiveness of an investor's nationality. Moreover, when investment treaties specifically require efective nationality, these provisions do not merely replicate traditional rules; instead, they aTe adapted to the unique context of an investment treaty. The article also emphasises the inconsistencies in investment arbitmtion's interpretation of effective nationality provisions and advocates a more consistent appmach, as exemplified by the Ballantine case. The article concludes with a call for clearer criteria for applying the efective nationality requirement in investment treaties. Such pTecision can diminish ambiguities and ensure alignment with the ove=ching objectives of these treaties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text provides an overview of the historical context and ongoing challenges surrounding equal citizenship rights in the United States. It discusses the impact of various Supreme Court decisions, including the veto of a Reconstruction-era statute and rulings on discrimination cases. The text emphasizes the importance of social movements and public engagement in shaping constitutional meaning and encourages individuals to uphold the ideal of equal citizenship, despite potential limitations from the current Court majority. [Extracted from the article]

The wheels of justice move slowly. There is usually a significant lapse of time between the underlying factual events prompting a dispute, the filing of a lawsuit, and an ultimate judgment. During this significant temporal lag, it is not uncommon for parties to a dispute to move to a new state and establish a new domicile. This move can complicate a choice of law analysis. Modern choice of law heavily emphasizes the domicile of the parties to a dispute. But which domicile counts: The pre-move or post-move domicile of the litigant? The black letter law has always assumed that the postmove domicile--the "after-acquired" domicile--does not count for choice of law purposes. But there are some cases that do consider the after-acquired domicile when doing a choice of law analysis. This Article examines the after-acquired domicile problem and offers a comprehensive solution to the issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to investigate the effects of a digital citizenship learning model on elementary school students’ digital citizenship and academic interests. Two sixth-grade classes were chosen for the study. The experimental group (n=20) received instruction using the model, while the control group (n=20) received traditional lecture-based instruction. The results demonstrated that the experimental group showed statistically significant improvements in digital citizenship and academic interests compared to the control group. This study firmly established that digital citizenship learning models effectively enhance elementary school students’ digital citizenship and academic interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the transformative educational practices and democratic ethos of Black Mountain College, an experimental institution ahead of its time. Drawing on insights from scholars like Rhea Estelle Lathan and Susan Kates, Muir positions Black Mountain as a site of community literacies, by prioritizing democratic engagement, diversity, and experiential learning. The article explores how Black Mountain, amidst the socio-political tumult of the mid-20th century, fostered a dynamic environment centered on art, community, and individualized learning. By unpacking Black Mountain's foundational values and meticulous analysis of archival materials and educational theories, Muir highlights the pedagogical innovations of figures like Josef Albers, whose "Pedagogy of Presence" emphasized perception, process, and abstraction, nurturing not only artistic expression but also critical citizenship. Muir invites readers to reconsider the role of education in fostering democracy, inclusivity, and social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the book "Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova" by Eleanor Knott. The book explores how individuals belonging to kin-majority groups in Moldova and Crimea interact with citizenship and quasi-citizenship policies promoted by their respective kin-states. It focuses on the importance of understanding kin-majorities and the political implications of their identities. The book uses qualitative research methods, including interviews, to analyze the perceptions and behaviors of individuals in these regions. It provides comprehensive categories of identification and examines the engagement of citizens with kin-state policies. The book also highlights the complexities and fragmentation within kin-majorities. Overall, it offers valuable insights into the relationship between identity and citizenship in post-Soviet Europe. [Extracted from the article]

Italian media depictions of Black and brown bodies tend to be split into two opposing types. On the one hand, in images and stories about immigration, which are ubiquitous in the news and within national consciousness, these bodies have become hypervisible. On the other hand, these stories often neglect the quotidian realities that many children of immigrants face, particularly in terms of their lack of citizenship, which leaves the plight of second-generation Italians invisible. A similar pattern of invisibility is evident in Italian film and television, where Black protagonists have long been absent. At the time of their releases, the Netflix series Summertime and Zero offered intriguing possibilities for the representation of race, approaching the issues of hypervisibility and invisibility and exploring the tensions between these extremes through the protagonists and narratives at their heart. Through a comparative analysis of these two series informed by postcolonial, critical race, and film theories, I ask what it means that Summertime, a show that conforms to norms regarding race, genre, and politics, was renewed for three seasons, whereas Zero was canceled after only one season—despite its offering a more nuanced representation of being Black in Italy. I argue that the latter show was canceled precisely because it failed to calm social fears about race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our criminal justice system, to be truly democratic, should be more responsive to those most affected by it, and this calls for significant participation from citizens. Unfortunately, the state-centered, professionalized criminal justice system marginalizes citizens at every stage, depriving them of a voice and power. Instead, the system should embody and encourage criminal justice citizenship, which refers to the rights and privileges of ordinary people to participate directly in certain aspects of the criminal justice system and to deliberate in some of its workings. Such citizenship is indispensable to democracy, or rule by the people. Restorative justice, especially where it is centered in community courts, is an ideal reform to strengthen criminal justice citizenship and, therefore, democracy itself. Restorative justice seeks to address and repair crime's harm through a deliberative process that fosters mutual understanding and acceptance of responsibility and involves the stakeholders of crime directly in the process. Restorative justice strengthens democracy by fostering the following three key aspects of criminal justice citizenship. First, restorative justice can provide many opportunities for lay participation and collective civic action to address individual crimes and broader issues in a community. Second, restorative justice processes foster deliberation. These processes give voice to the key stakeholders and encourage dialogue, understanding, collaboration, and creativity in repairing harm. Third, restorative justice strengthens membership, which refers to citizens belonging to a community as civic equals. It does so by inviting key stakeholders, broadly defined, to play a role in seeking to repair the harms of crime--promoting a shared commitment to the social order and accountability to others. To realize the benefits of restorative justice as a democratic practice, reformers should continue to promote grassroots community court experiments that involve as many stakeholders as possible. These experiments can help to reduce the size of the carceral state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NOWADAYS, THE NEED FOR AN INDIGENOUS MODEL OF CITIZENSHIP CULTURE IN THE WORLD'S METROPOLISES IS INEVITABLE AND MANDATORY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO STUDY AND PRIORITIZE THE COMPONENTS OF CITIZENSHIP CULTURE IN THE METROPOLISES OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THE RESEARCH METHOD IS LIBRARY AND FIELD. DATA COLLECTION TOOLS INCLUDED IN-DEPTH LIBRARY STUDIES AND EXPERT QUESTIONNAIRES. THE MODEL INCLUDES THREE LEGAL, FUNCTIONAL AND VALUE DIMENSIONS OF CITIZENSHIP CULTURE AND ALSO INCLUDES 13 MAIN COMPONENTS. DUE TO THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE RESEARCH MODEL, THE METHOD OF HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS PROCESS BASED ON THE AGGREGATION OF EXPERT OPINIONS AND BASED ON (GRAYNUMBER THEORY) TO EXAMINE AND PRIORITIZE EACH OF THE DIMENSIONS AND COMPONENTS OF THE CITIZENSHIP CULTURE MODEL OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THEREFORE, IN GENERAL, IT CAN BE SAID THAT THE PRESENT STUDY IS A MIXED TYPE THAT EMPHASIZES QUALITATIVE-QUANTITATIVE DATA. HENCE, THE THEORETICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL PARADIGM ON WHICH THIS RESEARCH IS BASED IS A KIND OF INTERPRETIVE-POSITIVIST MIX. THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THIS ARTICLE INDICATE THAT AMONG THE DIMENSIONS OF CITIZENSHIP CULTURE, THE VALUE DIMENSION OF CITIZENSHIP CULTURE HAS MORE PRIORITY THAN OTHER DIMENSIONS ACCORDING TO EXPERTS. AT THE SAME TIME, THE LEGAL AND DUTY ASPECTS HAVE ALSO BEEN OF GREAT IMPORTANCE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]