Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:3 Issue: 9, 2013

Alongside with the visual symbols of status and identity in the late modernity, the bodies have become converting to express symbol of identity and personality. Body care and supervision provide this opportunity for individuals to keep a clear narrative of their identity and put it watching others. This research has been done with the aim of investigating the relationship between body management and the youth social identity. The young people aged 18 to 30 of Sari were among statistical population. The sample size was 384 which obtained with Cochran formula and by multi-stage cluster sampling. The results indicate that, nowadays many efforts done by the youth about having a beautiful appearance and body up this way to achieve the distinguishing characteristic. They want to show themselves in community differently. Thus attempting for having a beautiful face and appearance and perfect limbs rather than be associated with the rejection of their identity comes from acceptance of their identity.

This paper tries to study the role of social factors in the explanation of vandalism among high school students in Andimeshk. Focusing on the social security. Through survey study more than 300 ones were selected by Cochoran Formula. After gathering he data through questionnaire, they were analyzed by Pearson Coefficient Correlation, Variance Analysis test, Multi-variable regression and path analysis. The results show that there are inverse negative relationship between vandalistic behavior with social satisfaction, social security. Social correlation and security needs. There are also negative relationship between lack of security and socio-economic status with vandalistic behavior. Regression analysis indicates that independent variables explains 24.8 of variances in vandalism. Social satisfaction and social correlation have more influence then.

This paper with emphasising on religious context of Iranian society, has a critical interpretation which considers psychological damages as an inevitable consequence of modernity(with integrated sociological and psychological approach) attempts to address youth mental health issues. In this regard, this paper with constructing mental aspects (belief and emotional) objective (ritual and outcome) of religiosity and special attention to personalizing social relationship(social isolation variable) analyses the role of these factors. This research is an analytical descriptive study with simple random sampling method on a sample of 345 students of Islamic Azad University of Sirjan. Findings suggest that students’ mental health is not as good as mentioned before. Moreover, results indicate a positive and significant impact of mental aspects in contrary to apparent aspects of religiosity on the mental health. In addition, factors such as social isolation, gender, marital status had impact on mental health as well.

This study attempts to reveal the effect of family structure on social participation of Payame Noor university students, it consists of 339 students. The theoretical framework of this investigation is based on two hypotheses. Hegen personality structure theory and Parsons action theory. One hypotheses is on satisfactoriness in the family structure were based on personality structure theory and also two hypotheses in regard with tendency toward wisdom and hope for future based on Parson's action theory is involved. The main problem of social participation is that it is successive and periodic as to how social participation is high in one period and low in another one and also it could be stated that our society is of low social participation which results from several factors: the most important one is the order (discipline) of family structure. Since family is the founder of society and also the first center for children socialization. In this way, after theoretical discussion and data collection using Spss software, the researcher analyzed the data using two coefficient methods of Pearson and variance analysis in linear regression. The result obtained from this investigation indicates that the more the satisfaction of the family, the more the social participation of the students, that is, there is a positive and strong relationship between family satisfaction and the degree of social participation.

This paper tries to study the effect of information and communication technology on the skills of the third grade of high school students in Neka. Among 1400 students were randomly chosen. More than 302 ones were randomly selected(boys and girls). By a questionnaire which had 40 questions shows more than 87% of Alfa Cronbach coefficient. One group TTest and independent T-test were analyzed and the results show ICT influences on the social skills of students like critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, participation and cooperation. These results were the same among high-school and vocational school students. The effects were more among boys than girls.

This paper wants to study the measurement of social capital of the Payam Noor University in southern Khorasan. It also tries to increase the role of social capital through participation and membership in different groups. Thus, Two types of hypotheses were in micro and macro levels analyzed. More than 329 students were randomly selected and (F and T) coeficeints show that variables like gender, marriage, place of living and place of birth had no effect on social capital, but variables like social classes, family relations, individual resources, educational prestige, social interaction had more influence on the social capital among the students.

This paper tries to study the role of self-esteem and self-effectiveness for the relation between Islamic life style and social adaptation among the youth in Mashhad. The data was gathered from the questionnaire about 235 young people. Two different questionnaires were used for gathering data. By lisrel and SPSS software, the data were analyzed. Statistical tests like factor analysis show that Islamic life style has a positive and meaningful influence on selfesteem and self-effectiveness. And thus the self-esteem and self- effectiveness variables have positive and meaningful effect on social adaptation.

This research attempts to examine the role of Socio-economic factors in establishing collective behavior of the youth in Boshehr based on Smelser' s structural theory. Smelser in one of the most well-known sociologists in collective behavior studies who explains these behaviors in the framework of social structuralism. This research conducted on survey method. 383 persons selected through systematic random sampling. The face and construct validity have been used to verify the validity and the Alpha coefficients to assess the reliability of the measurement. Pearson correlation, analysis of variance and regression analysis were used to verify hypothesis and the research model. According to the result, a significant correlation was found between age(r=- 0/11), income (r= 0/10) and relative deprivation(r=0/75) in establishing collective behavior. Through the regression coefficients, relative deprivation, marital statues, sex, household situation and job situation explained 47 percent of dependent variable variance.