Meta-Analysis Explanation of the Factors Affecting Youth Social Alienation

Social alienation means feeling of separation, detachment, disinterest and lack of psychological and emotional connection with the community. Social alienation is rising in transitional societies from tradition to modernization. Accordingly, this research seeks to examine the causes of the emergence of social alienation among Iranian youth as a transition society from tradition to modernity, and answers this question:" What is the most important factor affecting the advent of the social alienation of Iranians? The research implementation mechanism is quantitative analysis. The goal of this approach is to integrate, systematically review and harmonize studies in a certain area of research. The statistical population of this study is 36 studies, 24 of which were selected from the research documents for the purpose of combining and identifying the impact of it. The analysis showed that social alienation as the main dependent variable influenced by the styles of education, cultural capital, social capital, variable individualism, media consumption, tradition, psychological factors, normative, structural, religion and population. In sum, the above variables were able to explain social alienation.