SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF YOUTH (JAME SHENASI MOTALEATE JAVANAN)
Year:2015 | Volume:5 | Issue:17|Papers Count:8

Identity in recent decades, especially in social and national dimension, as one of the most key components of humanities and social sciences, considered very deeply by experts and scientists. This article attempts to examine national identity in the sphere of culture globalization and worldwide consumption culture. Because this culture includes different dimension, the article has done by the purpose of investigation of the relationship between body management and youth national identity. The young people aged 18 to 30 years of Sari were among statistical population. The sample size was 384 persons obtained by Cochran formula and multi-stage cluster sampling. The results indicate that there was inversely negative relationship between body management and youth national identity.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between cultural capital and social alienation. According to Pierre Bourdieu’s Standpoint, cultural capital involves habitus, rhetoric styles, different forms of knowledge and tastes. According to Bourdieu, the individuals who are in high economic and social hierarchical level have different patterns, habitus and type of cultural goods consumption. In this regard, the individuals who belong to high social classes gain much cultural capital. Therefore, social agents categorize themselves by type of consuming cultural goods and imposing strategic distinction to other classes. Consequently, low classes of individuals are faced to social alienation. This Study has been done in survey method between 371 of high school and pre- university students in Saqqez. The results of this study indicate that there are significant inverse relationship between cultural capital and social alienation but the level of this relationship is weak.

Political participation is one of the important issues drawn to the special attention of various fields of social sciences and politics. Today, women as an effective group in participation and political participation especially have an important role in political decision-making. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine social factors affecting women's political participation in the city of Nahavand. In this study, the survey method was employed and the data have been obtained by using a questionnaire. The sample of the research consisted of Nahavandi women of 18 years of age and older out of which 400 women were selected based on Cochran formula and multi-stage cluster sampling method. The results of the research show that there is a significant relationship between women’s political participation and social capital variables, social class positions, mass media, political participation experience and political efficacy; however, there is not a significant relationship between the variable of membership in civil organization and access to political figures and women’s political participation. Results obtained from regression analysis suggest that the variables of social capital, social class position, mass media, political participation experience and political efficacy explain totally 12% of variations in women’s political participation. Path analysis diagram also showed that social capital variable has a greater impact on women’s political participation than the other variables.

The aim of this research is to study social factors influencing on social consensus. Sampling method was multi-process and included cluster and multistage sampling and sample size based on Cochran's Formula was 380 persons too. Data collection tools was questionnaire. In this research, the methods of data analysis were independent T-Test, Spearman Correlation Coefficient, Multivariate Regression Analysis and SPPS Software. The results showed that the mean of social consensus was moderate upward level. There was a positive and direct relationship among social stratification, social interaction, social relations, age, social trust and social consensus. There was a negative relationship between the education level and social consensus. Regression analysis represented that 17.3 percent of the social consensus level related to independent variables and social interaction, social stratification and social interaction variables influenced more on social consensus.

The purpose of this research is to review the relationship between trust, social networks, participation and feeling of happiness. The statistical population of the present research, all of the students of Islamic Azad University of Kerman Branch (a number of 16403 students) in the academic year of 2013-14, among which a number of 400 students have been selected as the sample size, the questionnaire includes two sections and the Oxford questionnaire has been used in order to measure the feeling of happiness. The theoretical framework of the research was formed based on the theories of Max Haler and Markaz Hadler, Belbum and Barhir, Shinex and Bergezma and the some hypotheses were formulated and then, the proposed path diagram has been fitted by using the Amos 17 software. The results indicate that the relationship between outside of the group dimensions of charitable participation and the feeling of happiness is not significant and only in group charitable participation has a direct and positive impact on the feeling of happiness. The standard Beta coefficient is equal to 0.132. The second variable which has the most impact on the feeling of happiness is institutional trust. Its standard Beta coefficient is equal to 0.219. Other relationships of the social variables have been provided with the feeling of happiness in the form of multivariable regression model in the research.

This paper derived from a research project entitled study of the relationship between social alienation and social apathy. It was done by stratified random sampling among 366 students of Islamic Azad University (Mashhad Branch). In this regard, the variables of social alienation and social apathy were assessed by a questionnaire and the reliability was 0.84 too. The results showed that the mean score ranges of students' social alienation and their social apathy were about 2.6 and 2.4. So, there was a significant relationship between social alienation and social apathy. Based on Spearman Correlation Coefficient, the ranges of social alienation, powerlessness, anomaly, social isolation, meaningless and cultural hatred were respectively 0.574, 0.493, 0.473, 0.397, 0.324, 0.439. The comparison of means showed that the relative scores of social alienation and apathy among students of Architecture, Art and Engineering Colleges were higher than the others. Multiple regression analysis showed that only 40% of the components of social alienation and social apathy were justified and the remainder related to the other variables.

With regard to the close relationship existed between the dominant discourse and national identity, the present article undertakes to conduct, with the method of survey and the help of questionnaire, a research with the aim of understanding the degree of national identity among Kurd's young people and its relationship to the sense of social justice. The statistical population of this research consists of the Kurd citizens inhabited in the city of Qorveh and its size is equal to 299 people. Studies show that there is a significant correlation of 0.49 between citizen's senses of justice and their national identity and the higher sense of justice, the higher citizen's national identity. The results also reveal that the higher the degree of sense of economic, political, cultural and lingual justice of citizens, the stronger their national identity. Similarly, the findings of the study has confirmed the relationship between national identity and citizens.

Social capital is as a kind of capital accumulation that causes social solidarity, social commitment and thus improves self-esteem and social health. Erosion of social capital and the turmoil at the macro and micro levels lead to a variety of social and psychological issues and damages. This study aims to investigate the impact of social capital (in-group and out-group) on the mental health of university students in Tabriz and the relationship between the two variables. The method of this study was survey in which statistical population was all students of Tabriz University in three undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate and 300 students by using random sampling method and Cochran formula have been studied. The study is designed to assess the mental health of students using Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and the Questionnaire made by the authors. In the present study we used Pearson Correlation for data analysis. The results showed that the there is a positive relationship between social capital (in-group and out-group) and mental health and also there is a significant and reverse relationship between social capital (in-group and out-group) and anxiety, social dysfunction and depression. The study reveals that the social capital (in-group and out-group) has no significant correlation with physical symptoms.