A survey about socio-cultural factors affecting youth identity crisis

Identity crisis considers as the most important social pathology that impact on social relations and cultural, economic, political and international actions of Iran. Therefore, identity is one of the general subjects in socio-cultural processes that form during time and place. This is a great matter that how socio-cultural needs lead to identity crisis among youths because of tendency to cultural patterns of western countries. This paper tries to explain the definition of identity, theoretical approaches, indexes and outcomes of identity crisis and finally present the findings of the research based on analytical model, goals, questions and hypotheses.