The Influence of Social Capital on Yazd Youth Subculture

Different sub-cultures are formed by different subjects such as ethnicity, religion, and race. One of these different subjects is youth's sub-culture. Our aim in this study is to examine youth's sub-cultures and its relationship with social capital. This study has been conducted in two exploratory and descriptive sections. First, in the exploratory section in order to design appropriate instruments and identifying Yazdi youth's different sub-cultures, 20 Yazdi youth were qualitatively interviewed, and after identifying these varieties and designing appropriate instruments, the study was quantitatively conducted. Through Cochran formula, 385 people were selected as the sample size and also the sampling of this research was multi-stage sampling. Findings indicated that youth's social capital is lower than average level and social capital has a significant relationship and high correlation with aggression and lumpen in speaking, jaunty and lumpen in make-up and clothing, secluded and criminal in values and norms, addiction, religious and exercising in leisure time, foreigners in movies and music, and vegetarian food in eating.