Cultural Deviance and Its Determinants among Tabriz City’s High School Boys

Cultural deviance is one of threatening factors regarding social order and security. On the one hand, cultural deviance can pave the road for other types of crimes and misbehaviors and peoplein the stage of socialization and interact with other friends and peers, has its desired place among sociological studies. This study attempts to quantify the cultural deviance and its determinants among teenagers. This study is a survey which utilizes questionnaire as a data gathering tool. Among all Tabriz high school boys in the educational year of 2012-2013, a sample of 354 students are selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method. Findings indicate that, the level of cultural deviance is totally low among the respondents. Also, Correlation analyses showed that, among independent variables, cultural deviance of peers, educational performance, and family control have statistically significant relationships with dependent variable. Regression analysis indicates that, employed model could explain around 44 percent of the variations in cultural deviance.