Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:6 Issue: 19, 2015

The spread of religious doubt amongst people, especially students and young people in recent years has become a major concern. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of religious doubt among students of Islamic Azad University and Yazd University. The present research is a cross-sectional survey. The population of Yazd University and Islamic Azad Yazd University students was (29630 persons) in the academic year of 2014-2015, in which 384 students by Cochran formula were selected through stratified random sampling method. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to glean the data possessing the content validity approved by the experts of the field and internal consistency utilized by the Cronbach alpha which was more than 0.7 regarding all the constructs. Data showed that the youth religious doubt regarding God's traits, Imam Mahdi and the Mahdism doctrine, woman rights in Islam and also jurisprudence were more than the average. Considering, Quran, anecdotes, Mohammad (The prophet), Imams were near average. The majority of the religious doubt was regarding the Shia branch, jurisprudence, woman's rights in Islam, and Imam Mahdi as well as Mahdism doctrine.

This study aims to evaluate and prioritize higher education functions from the point of view of young people. To this end, these functions were investigated from the economic, political, social and cultural perspectives, based on Parson's social theory. Survey was the method adopted to conduct the study and a questionnaire was designed using Osgood’s Scale. The respondents were asked to rate higher education functions based on the stimulus “university graduate”. The questionnaire was completed by 471 young participants from the city of Gonabad, Iran. According to the results, the higher education functions were rated “average” and all respondents gave priority to social (better social status), cultural (knowledge, creativity and open mindedness) and economic (future work opportunities, adequate income and social efficiency) functions. Young people who participated in the study believed that variables such as gender, age, education level (pre-university student, university student, graduate), marital status, employment and the interest to pursue higher education have an influence on higher education functions. Approximately, the above mentioned factors explain a total of 13% of the changes of the dependent variable in ordinal regression.

One of the most important new social injuries in the bureaucratic administrative is the official corruption. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the economic, social, demographic characteristics and perception of corruption. In this study, a questionnaire survey was used. The random sampling was used too. The results showed that: 1.a significant relationship between the respondent's age and their perceptions of corruption 2) a direct relationship between the education level of respondents and perception of corruption 3.meaningful relationship between the marital status of the respondents and their perceptions of corruption.4.direct relation between age and socio-economic status of the respondents and their perception of corruption.

There are several reasons for usage of music and musical activities. Music is part of artistic activities of human beings. Perhaps people are exposed to music more than other artistic works in their daily lives. Due to the necessity of considering music as a part of human identity, we tried to study the amount of music used by young people in Zanjan based on four hypothesis: cultural lifestyle, satisfaction of needs, factors of sociability, and individual factors as important factors in usage of various types of music. The research community is young people of Zanajn province. Based on Kokaran Formula a sample consisting 310 people was obtained and questionnaires were distributed accidentally in 3 areas of the city (uptown area, city center, downtown). According to the results of the research, we can conclude that among individual factors, married people regarding marital status, employed people in private sector regarding the employment, those who own a house in uptown regarding the house ownership had more tendency toward music and, among independent factors (lifestyle, satisfaction of needs, factors of sociability), the highest correlation was related to the satisfaction of needs and then sociability and lifestyle. As it is demonstrated by the descriptive factors of the research that the most tendency was toward traditional music and the least tendency was toward rock music.

Undoubtedly, the social world is changing and one of the main factors of transformation in the current world is new and modern technological achievements which are considered as modern media. However, due to their emerging nature of these media, there has been no agreement on their positive or negative effects and there have been different ideas about the effect of these modern media such as virtual social networks such Cloob on social capital. In addition, regarding the available statistics, the most use of virtual social networks is assigned to the youth particularly young girls and women who use these networks with different types of motivation. The study of the effects of using virtual social networks among girls and women can identify some consequences of these modern media. The present study was conducted using a survey research and employing a researcher-made internet-based questionnaire whose reliability was confirmed using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient as 0.79. Research population includes all girls and women who are members of Cloob Social Network in Tabriz. The theoretical framework of the research is extracted from available theories about effects of virtual spaces on social capital. Research findings indicate that there is a direct and significant correlation of variables of the duration of users’ membership in Cloob, the degree of using Cloob, the degree of participating and being active in Cloob, and the degree of significance of Cloob for users with the degree of social capital. In addition, independent variables entered the regression model of the research could explain 30% of variations of participants’ social capital. In general, the results indicate that Cloob Social Network can increase users’ social capital.

The purpose of this study is to determine the youth generation leisure time as an important factor in reducing their inclination toward drug use in North Khorasan Province, by comparing drug addicted youth in addiction treatment centers of Social Welfare Organization with other non-addicted youth. This was a survey study and a questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed by SPSS software. The findings showed that: 1-Non-addicted youth devoted more of their free time to leisure activities. 2- Leisure time activities of addicted youth have less diversity comparing to non-addicted ones. 3- The rate of satisfaction of facilities in addicted youth is less than non-addicted.3- Addicted youth devote a little percentage of their free time to leisure activities. Finally, the problems and shortages in this regard are: the lack of proper planning by government, financial problems, lack of leisure time facilities, lack of prediction of facilities according to youth needs and lack of proper planning by family.

The study of globalization in contemporary world is one of main concerns in cultural studies. This problem especially in relation with young people has more importance, therefore the study of globalization's cultural effects among young generation, especially academic young as a problem is scientifically researchable. This study has been used theories of Ronald Robertson and Stuart Hall. This research as a goal has been done to explain the relationship between cultural attitudes affected by globalization and local identity among academic Yazdian young. Methodologically, this research has been done as a cross-sectional survey. Population of research included all Yazdian academic young (18-30 years old). Sample size has been considered 400, and the sample had been chosen by quota sampling method. Data has been collected via self-administered questionnaire and has been extracted with software (SPSS). For analyzing data these techniques had been used: Pearson correlation, Stepwise Method of multiple linear regression. There is a significant negative relationship between cultural attitudes influenced by globalization and local identity. The findings show that consumption of media and religiousness are two important variables in explaining the sense of local identity and the respondents` cultural attitudes affected by globalization, the use of foreign media has multiplier effect on cultural attitudes affected by globalization, while the use of domestic national media has a suppressor effect on it. Also the use of local media and then religiousness has positive effect on Yazdi local identity, while the use of foreign media has negative influence on it. Finally, there is a significant negative relationship between cultural attitudes affected by globalization and local identity.