A Sociological Study on the Social Participation among the Youth aged 18-29 in Bam after the Earthquake and Involving the Effective Factors

This research studies the ration of social participation among the youth aged 18-29 in Bam after the disastrous earthquake in December 2003 and its effective factors. In this paper, the youth more than 400 people were asked directly with an Interview and a Questionnaire in Bam (South of Iran). Theories like modernization school adopted by learner, Ingelhart, Hantington, Lipst, Almound, Powel, Rogers and Kaouline were applied in the paper. That Pearson Coefficient Correlation shows there is a direct and positive relationship between social belonging, social satisfaction, mass media, responsibility, voluntary membership in NGOs with the youth social participation. Those variables like level of age. Education, ritualism, kinship, social freedom. Periods of living in Bam have significant relationship with the youth social participation. It also shows there is no relationship between married and non-married young people in the search.