Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:3 Issue: 6, 2012

There are lots of differences among the youth these days. The youth of today are different from the previous generation due to religiosity. This paper tries to search on the generation gap of two ones of 70s and 90s generations. The research method was qualitative and four people from the first and four from the second generation were interviewed deeply. The results show that the second one had less tendency to different aspect of religiosity and there was seen a gap between two generations. The second one performanced less accompany with religious activities or to some degree they were against of religion through social aspect.

This paper tries to analyze the relationship between social capital(separating this capital to there areas, within group, out group and communicational) to the feeling of security. Through mixed cluster and classified sampling 22 restricts of Tehran and more than 2000 people were chosen totally. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the place of living, marriage, occupation, and age with the feeling of security. No direct effect was found in within group of social capital, but the effect of the within group social capital on security is negative(-36%). Out group social capital has a positive effect(+27%) on the security. Commercial social capital has no direct effect on security but it has negative direct effect on security but it has negative direct effect(-%8) on security.

This paper tries to study the relationship between the youth life style and attitude to artificial drugs consumption in Shirvan. The question: Is there any relationship between the youth life style and their drugs consumption? This research was done in the winter of 2011 and out of 53084 people 382 one were chosen among the youth aged 15 to 29 in Shirvan through cluster sampling. The Alpha Cronbach of the questionnaire was 0.78. The findings show there is a significant relationship between life style and drug misuse. Cultural consumption, free activities, place priority, expense preferences influence on the drug consumption.

The object of this research was to study and explain feminist tendencies and its relationship with economical, social, and cultural motives in the female students of the Islamic Azad University of Garmsar. It was used compilation of theoretic viewpoints of Ritzer, Castells, Giddens, and Parsons in feminist discussion and a framework and theoretic model was formulated. By using surveyor method, researcher's personal questionnaire was made and it was done validation and reliability evaluation and data was gathered by it. A sample size was estimated 327 female students of both faculty of humanities and faculty of engineering of the Islamic Azad University of Garmsar; and they were selected proportional to size using random sampling. Findings showed that the range of feminist tendencies in studied sample is upward in a medium level and this tendency is higher in the humanities students than in the engineering students. Also belief in the existence of gender inequality in family, an inequality in the laws and roles of the society, protest to woman role as a mere housekeeper, and an inequality in women's economical advantages to men's one is upward in a medium level. Another result is that economical and socio-cultural motives in the mentioned feminist tendency showed high level which is explainable and interpretable with available theoretic approaches in the social, radical, and liberal feminism. It can be said that people tend to special tendency in this context based on their different positions and they summarize a main cause of gender inequality into the same problem and this causes that people viewpoints about gender inequality may be difference and it leads to different feminist tendencies. Moreover, Lizrel modeling values was the fitting representation of researcher's proposal model.

The paper tries to study the effect of participation pattern on sport activities among the students of I.A.U of Kermanshah. The research method is survey with questionnaire and 368 students were chosen through cluster sampling. The data were analyzed by SPPS(version of 11.5). The results show the median of participation pattern is 2.31 and 1.14 out of students and it was in lower stage, but the participation rate of boys were significantly more than girls and the favorite sports of boys are walking football, swimming, body building, but girls like walking, light exercise, swimming and volleyball. The participation pattern as independent variable showed 34% of differences among girls and 53.9% of boys.

Essential to development advance in any society, having social support that social capital is one of those and include components: "social trust", "social cohesion", "social participation", "social consciousness", and "religiosity". The aim of this research is on relationship between social capital and urban development variable. Statistical population were 281 residents of Ghaemshahr at the age of 16 and above which were used as classified and random sampling method. Research is carried out by a survey method through a questionnaire which based on Likert scale for gathering the information. The data interpreted through SPSS soft ware and Pearson correlation. The results indicated that there is a significant relationship between social capital components, including: Social trust, Social cohesion, Social participation, Social consciousness, Religiosity and urban development. The results of step-by-step regression show that two variables (social trust and social cohesion) are studied at equation and current situation significantly was upper the average.

The paper studies the effective social factors influencing on the satisfaction in Shirvan. The sample size was chosen 265 from 3754 students in Shirvan Islamic Azad University. The results show that the satisfaction rate of students is 2.8 out of 5 and it is on average point. It also shows that out of 16 hypothesis, 6 ones concerning social factors were rejected and the hypothesis were accepted. Regression analysis explains 35 percent of the total variation depends on the model. One of the factors involved external variables and the two others involved internal ones. The results also shows that the lower satisfaction rate is caused by internal social factors than external social ones.

National identity is the most pervasive level of identity among all social systems. In compare with other type of common identity, the national identity will affect on different aspects of life in every social system. So, this study attempts to examine Yazd young's attitude toward national identity and its effective factors. The sample size of this survey consists of 378 young (18-30 ages) which have been selected by classified random sampling method in the Yazd city. Some of the most important findings of this study are: Young's attitude toward national identity tends to medium level. Based on Pearson correlation test, there are significant relationship between religiosity, life satisfaction, foreign & national media usage and national identity. Based on regression analysis, independent variables can explain 22.4 percent of dependent variable (national identity) variance.