Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:6 Issue: 20, 2016

Social trust is the main component of social capital. In this regard, subjective welfare is one of the important aspects of human life. Based on the human needs growth, it must be considered both objective and subjective aspect of welfare. The present study tries to use survey method and collect data by cluster sampling among 381 persons of 20-29 Youth in Tehran as the sample of this research. The results show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between social trust and subjective welfare. But there is a negative relationship between deprivation and confidence. Hence, changing in the variable of social confidence will cause change in the subjective welfare and its indexes.

Investigating the relationship between cultural capital and environmental behaviors among youth employed in Asalouyeh (South Pars) is the main purpose of this study. Secondary objective of the study is to discover relationship between social associations, social norms and social trust and environmental social behaviors of the employees of south Pars. The research method in this study was survey method. The population is 60,850 people of South Pars employees that have been chosen using Cochran formula with sample size of 381 people. This statistical population is done by cluster sampling. The authors processed data using AMOS and SPSS software. The results of the statistical analysis obtained through data regression model and Pearson Correlation Coefficient. Significance levels in three variables of social associations, social norms and social trust were 0.00 (smaller than 0.05) and also significance levels of structural equalities using AMOS software were 0.027, 0.024 and 0.012 respectively and hence all are smaller than 0.05, the author concluded that there was a relationship between the study assumptions and environmental social behaviors of South Pars. In the other words, all these three assumptions in this study have been confirmed.

Over the past few decades, the family affected by the processes, and consequences of modernization has experienced profound changes in both objective-structural and semantic-subjective levels. The family has faced new issues, some of which represent progress and welfare, and some suggest traumatic social issues which reduce the pace of development in the society as hindering factors. Thus, the present study aims to examine the impacts of cultural modernization and the mechanisms of its effect on family values in the city of Nahavand. To this end, of the various factors and variables affecting the family in the process of modernization, such variables as risk-taking, reflection, and fading religious beliefs were selected as independent variables. Theoretical foundations of the variables and parameters are based on the theories of Smelser, Good, Giddens and Beck and Erich Inglehart. The method used in this research was survey, and the data-gathering tool was a reliable and valid questionnaire. The statistical population of this study consisted of eighteen-year or older members of Nahavandi families. The sample size of 390 people was obtained using Cochran formula and multi-stage cluster sampling method. The main method of data analysis was regression and structural equation modeling. The results showed that the three factors of cultural modernization namely risk-taking, reflection, and fading religious beliefs have been effective on the decline of family forms and emergence of its modern form. The risk-taking factor with (3.38) and the fading religious beliefs (with 3.02) have had the highest and lowest average respectively. And in general, the average of cultural modernization process in the study population was 3.25. Also, the results of multiple regression analysis indicated that the modernization factor and its components accounted for only 0.25 of the variance change in family values

This study aimed to compare the social compatibility of male and female students in PNU of Dareshahr. The population in this study included 41 male and 59 female PNU students in the school year of 2013-14 who were selected randomly. The California social-individual compatibility questionnaire was used in order to measure the variables. For this purpose a comparative plan was applied and a T-test was used to analyze the data. The results show that the social compatibility of male and female students is statistically significant.

The purpose of this paper is to study the determinant factors of education and age equality in the marriage. The Sample was 419 subjects of Yazdian couples by the method of cluster sampling. Most respondents were Females and they believed that the equality of marriage and age would cause better situation for marriage. In other words, the findings showed that there was a positive and meaningful relationship between equality of age and education with media and there was an inversely relationship between equality factors as mentioned above with media. Regression test indicated that 84 percent of changes in equality of age and education in marriage could explain 4.2 percent of equality of education in marriage.

The present study describes and examines the Gro (eloping marriage) in the village of Gro, Kalat. The method was Grounded Theory and the techniques were deep interviews and participant observation. Population under study is young boys and girls who escaped together to marry in the village of Gro, Kalat. In this research purposive or theoretical sampling was used. For better and deeper understanding of this phenomenon, Information collected from a number of residents living in the village, indicated that parents of girls and boys who escaped to marry, their family members, relatives, and their close friends had an intimate relationship with them. Findings obtained showed 7 major categories including intergenerational conflict, instrumental look, and Gro, the role of modernization elements, romantic love, envy, learning and reinforcement, and wedding in Gro. The results showed this kind of marriage was not among any of the most common marriage categories. The theory in a three-dimensional model included conditions, interactions and outcomes that indicate final Grounded Theory.

Today behaviors such as drug abuse, moral and social deviance, failure and dropout, adolescent pregnancies and violence and aggression, running away from home and suicide are known as high-risk. These behaviors are due to undesirable consequences on the social system and even affect personality system, discussed by many scholars and researchers. In this study, the role of family functioning, attachment and perceived social support on risk behaviors among 388 people have been investigated in Qaemshahr. The results showed that three variables of family functioning, attachment and social protection were perceived negatively and significantly associated with high-risk behaviors.

Physical self-concept or perception of physical self is one of the main factors and properties of perception of one’s identity, especially of the youth which has recently been the center of attention of experts in different branches of humanities and social sciences. In fact, perception of body can be considered one of the most important factors that inevitably influence many of our social relations. This perception among women is significantly important in terms of historical experience and structural approach. The present research has been conducted with respect to the significance of this issue in current situation of women in Iranian society and its main purpose has been to find out whether there is a relation between physical perception and cultural capital among women. To this end, a number of 220 women between 18 to 40 years old of the population living in Esfahan were selected as the statistical sample and were studied using a questionnaire. Amose 18 was used in statistical analysis and a two-step analysis was used to study the relation between cultural capital and women’s perception of their physical selves (physical perception). Considering the measurement indicators of the graphic model, research hypothesis was confirmed and results showed that there is a significant relation between the two variables of cultural capital and physical perception among women.