Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:13 Issue: 45, Spring 2022

The purpose of this study is to study the effect of social capital, the use of mass media and ethnic identity on the political participation of citizens over 18 years of age and living in the eight districts of Ahvaz municipalities. To describe and explain political participation in the theoretical framework of this research, theories of 1- Theory of usefulness of political participation 2- Theory of social network 3- Theory of political trust 4- Theory of economic and class situation have been used. The sample size of this research was equal to 384 people, which was obtained using Cochran's formula and among the residents of streets, neighborhoods and eight areas of Ahvaz Municipalities, randomly and by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The data of this research have been collected in a survey using a researcher-made questionnaire.And SPSS software was used to analyze the data of this research. According to the data related to the regression table of this study, the independent variables of social capital, mass media use and ethnic identity had the greatest impact on the dependent variable of the study, namely the political participation of citizens over 18 years of age in Ahvaz.

The present study aims to achieve a comprehensive model for the impulse buying of young customers in a chain store. The statistical population of the present study is knowledgeable experts in the retail sector of the country who are fully acquainted with the issues under discussion. The method of data collection is snowball sampling and in-depth semi-structured interviews and the Grounded theory approach using MAXQDA software consists of open, axial and selective coding. The qualitative results of the research in the form of the final model consist of the sum of the central categories of sudden purchase, causal conditions, interventionist, bedrock, strategic and finally consequential. Each of these factors has its own variables and categories that pay attention to them to achieve the ultimate goal of customers' impulse buying. The value of this research compared to similar studies is that by providing a suitable model of customers' impulse buying, causal, strategic, contextual, intervening and consequential factors comprehensively explain the final results of this phenomenon and these results can provide valuable information. Provide marketers and retailers in today's competitive world.

Emotions and pre-adolescents are not always best friends. Not yet fully developed prefrontal cortex makes pre-adolescents emotional experiences more intense than other age groups. Thus, the aim of this study was to use Mindfulness to improve the emotions regulation and flexibility in pre-adolescents. The theoretical framework of the research has been developed using the approach of neurocognitive and developmental psychology. This study was conducted in a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test with two experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all female students studying in the fifth grade of primary school in Tehran. Among these, 24 were purposefully selected and randomly assigned to two groups (experimental 12 and control 12). The Mindfulness protocol was presented to the experimental group for 12 weeks. The variables were evaluated by the Iranian standardized version of the Shields and Cichetti emotion regulation checklist. Reliability of the test by Cronbach's alpha method is 0.74. Also, the validity of the test structure Confirmed by the implementation of confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis. The obtained data were analyzed by SPSS using descriptive statistics and analysis of covariance. The results showed that Mindfulness exercises in the post-test between the experimental group and the control group in the variables "Negative Emotion Regulation" (F=14.84, p= 0.001) and "Emotional Flexibility" (F=15.32, P = 0.002) was significant. In other words, applying mindfulness exercises has been able to improve the two components of negative emotion regulation and emotional flexibility in pre-adolescents.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of border markets on social security, job creation and economic policies of young people in border cities of Kurdistan province. The present study is an applied research according to the existing goals and the type of research is based on quantitative qualitative paradigm and the technique used to collect information and survey data. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part includes experts and in the quantitative part is all the native inhabitants of the border markets (young people living in the border markets of Kurdistan province) in the west of the country, which is a population of about 170,000 people. The sample was 384 samples for research. Research data were collected using multistage cluster sampling method. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to confirm the questions, and all factors were confirmed. For statistical analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient was used to identify the relationship and structural equation model was used to measure effectiveness. The whole process of analyzing the results was done using Spss 24 and Amos 24 software. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the variables of border markets with social security, employment and economic policies of border cities in the west of the country and also border markets have an impact on social security, employment and economic policies of border cities in the west.

In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the documentary method and secondary analysis have been used. This study aims to identify the most influential population of the Iranian family (birth and divorce), in the face of the second population zone of globalization and rationalization has changed to a comprehensive understanding of family population change. In this study, the role of demographic cognitive variables as an objective symbol in relation to the sociological changes of the family with a mental title is very important. Because there is a two-way relationship between the object (registration statistics) and the mind (people's sports attitudes). The results showed that the age of mothers in the country has increased. The highest number of births in the provinces belongs to mothers aged 25-29 and the lowest number of children to mothers over the age of 49. The result of comparing the births of 139 with 13897 age group of mothers, showed that the first rank of childbearing has changed from 20-24 years old mothers to 25-29 years old. Women under the age of 15-24 living in rural areas are more likely to have children than urban women in the same age group. According to the theory of the second population, the higher the development in a society, the lower the rate of growth and marriage. ....

Religion is one of the most significant factors that causes part of social values and this value system influences the individuals' behavior. This study essentially aims to explain the social factors that are effective on the evolution of religious ideas in Iran based on Durkheim's thought among young people who are 20-24 years old in Tehran. The main theoretical framework in this research relies on Durkheim's ideas. The statistical population includes young people who are 20 to 24 years old in Tehran, which is equal to 589954 people according to the general census of population and housing in 2016. The research methodology is a survey and a researcher-made questionnaire is used as a tool to collect the data. The sampling method is convenient sampling. Findings explain that there is a significant relationship between the family's socioeconomic base, the rate that young people use communication devices, friends' level of religious sociability, and parents' level of education and changes in youth religious ideas and values.

This research deals with the analysis of the lived experience and understanding the perception of the perpetrators of prostitution of the consequences of prostitution. The current research is exploratory in terms of the research goal, in terms of the qualitative research implementation process and based on the interpretive paradigm, in terms of the results of the applied research and in terms of the time criterion of the cross-sectional study (2018-2019). From the systematic analysis of in-depth interviews with 18 people from the prostitution market (prostitutes, Qawad and Mashri) and experts in the field of prostitution using the method of grounded theory with the Strauss and Corbin approach, 12 sub-categories and 7 core categories and finally based on the selective coding of the central phenomenon in the form "Prostitution; "A devastating reality" was formed. The results of the research showed that prostitution is affected by a set of social, economic, cultural, family and individual factors that lead to the occurrence of consequences including, "intensification of vulnerability to risky factors such as mental, physical and social injuries". "Continuous exposure to mental, sexual and physical violence", "defamilization from everyday life", "sexual exploitation of poor and socially damaged women" and "demoralization of society".

Moving towards creating and realizing a creative city is very necessary and important; because cities are the places in which knowledge societies are formed, and they are very important in economic development. Considering the factors under study, it is an applied research; and its method of review is descriptive-analytic. The statistical population includes Tehran’s 22 municipal districts. Using secondary data, receiving questionnaire from Tehran citizens, creative city indicators in Tehran’s 22 municipal districts have been ranked and graded based on 19 factors of creative city index. according to the results of the TOPSIS model, assessed based on three classifications including privileged, semi-privileged (moderate), and under-privileged (poor). The results show that districts 2, 4, 5, 6, and 22 with an average coefficient of 5 were the first in terms of possessing the factors leading to realization of the creative city. Districts 1, 14,15,8,3,12,11,10,20, and 21 with an average coefficient of 0.404 were the next, namely semi-privileged (moderate). Districts 7, 18, 16,13,19,17 and 9 with an average coefficient of 0.223 came last. the results of network analysis model, the innovation criterion has the greatest impact (0.265) on moving a neighborhood towards a creative one in Tehran. Two indicators namely “the number of centers for science and technology” and “the number of inventions” played the most active role in the realization of the creative city of Tehran with 0.035 and 0.032 respectively.