Social and Cultural Harms of University Students (With a focus on female students)

Social and cultural harms of female students such as abnormal behavior, less useful leisure, identity confusion, drug use, sex crimes, political apathy or aggression, etc. can be observed among university students which are generally caused by external factors. Studies in this field are few especially for female students. Subjects are also non-functional and the results are unclear and they are irrelevant to the cultural strategies. Lack of studies to identify social harms indicates the need to make policies and plans for conducting research and reducing social harms at universities. This study tries to examine social and cultural damages among university students with the focus on girl students. The research was conducted through documentary and meta analysis methods. Through indexing, screening, and validating available studies, 16 studies and scientific documents were selected and their specifications as well as their results were meta analyzed. Findings show that: identifying social harms of female students, reviewing the strategies and observing the way they are performed, training educated manpower, appropriate cultural arrangements, making use of academic and educational data of consultation committees for students, applying useful cultural methods, making use of social workers, are all the ways to realize cultural strategies and reduce social harms among students. Social harms of girl students are related to their mental harms and appropriate cultural plans and policies must be decided for them