Explaining and Comparing Social Participation of the Young in Iran and Tajikistan

The present research intends to examine and compare the social participation of the young in Iran and Tajikistan. With the use of multi-stage cluster sampling in Tehran and Dushanbe ¡ we selected 768 people from the young aged 20-29. Then we designed a questionnaire to collect the data. To evaluate validity indices¡ formal content validity was used and to evaluate reliability indices¡ we used Cronbach''s alpha coefficients. The research findings indicate that there were not significant differences between those two societies. Besides¡ there were significant relationships between social trust¡ the orientation of social action¡ social interaction¡ social values¡ socialization¡ social anomie¡ alienation¡ relative deprivation¡ soci-economic status¡ marital status¡ employment status- as independent variables- and social participation of the young in both societies. In total¡ 54% of the variance of social participation was explained by those independent variables.