Investigating the Impact of Social Culture on Health and Social Cohesion (Case Study: 18-29 Years Old or Ahvaz Urban Community)

The research aimed to investigate socio-cultural factors affecting social cohesion from a sociological perspective.

Materials and procedure: 

This research was applied in terms of goal and descriptive in terms of methodology; it also fell in correlative studies. The statistical population consisted of all 18–29-year-old youths in Ahvaz. The sampling method was cluster random sampling. To determine the sample size, the Morgan Table was used with the sample size amounting to 384 people. The 22-item Social Cohesion Inventory, 8-item Anomy Feeling inventory, 17-item Social Capital inventory, 9-item Cultural Capital inventory, 6-item Social Justice inventory, 8-item Relative Deprivation inventory, 15-item Social Security inventory, 5-item General Individualism inventory and 29-item Socio-economic inventory were used.

The results from research hypotheses revealed that there was a relationship between religiosity (r=0.440), tendency to ethnic identity (r=0.376), feeling of social justice (r=0.349), sense of social security(r=0.358), feeling anomy (r=0.461), feeling of relative deprivation (r=0.447), general individualism (r=0.223), social capital (r=0.317), cultural capital (r=0.130), socio-economic status (r=0.352), with social cohesion among Ahvaz youths, (p<0.05).