دوفصلنامه پژوهش جوانان ، فرهنگ و جامعه
پیاپی 1 (بهار و تابستان 1386)

Values are guidance and determine the ideological and social tendencies in one hand and in the other hand determine the social act and behaviour that revealed in the customs, rules, believes, sacred affairs and life style. Along with The Islamic Revolution emergence, that named "Values Revolution", in one hand and considering the fact that half of the country present population is formed by the youth on the other. This paper is an attempt to deal with this question that what are the structure and priorities of value structure specially among the young people and what are the difference in the values of the young and the others. It is very important question for the today society. This issue is dealt with by using structural interview method and SVS test. The result reveals that there is a meaningful difference between the structure and the priorities of the value structure of the young with that of the others. The young and the adult value structure have meaningful difference among 10 values concerning the values for security, tradition, globalization, motivation.

This paper selects two boy's high schools in Tehran to study the relations between ethical growth and the adult's child rearing methods with the level of their disagreement and gap with the young. 100 out of 200 students have been selected randomly among the boys in eleventh and 12th greads of 2 high schools in Tehran. Then the level of their disagreement and their political tendency has been compared with that of their fathers by appling two researcher made scales with required reliability. At the same time, the level of ethical growth, political attitude and the method of fathers for child rearing has been measured by using Kolberge ethical growth, attitude measuring scale and their child rearing method scale. The result shows that, first there is a psychological gap between 2/3 of the fathers and their children. Second, there is a meaningful relation between the father's ethical growth and that of the children. Third, there is relation between the father's ethical growth and their political tendency with that of their children.

Various arbitrations have been done on the issues concerning "Iran Generational Studies" and "Generational Sociology of Iran" about the nature of the young generation in compare to the middle age and the old age generation. Among those who regarded knowing of Iran an society and culture can be done base of the generational element, there are two opposite approaches which are "Generational Separation" and "Generational Unity". To know which is the most correct for studying the of the generational situation it is need to examin the various factors. It needs historical study and survey it is also necessary to knowledge of the people daily life as the context of socio-cultural act of generation. There are more important then the other ones. In other words, despite of the importance of the historical study we need cultural study on the generation and the culture itself. So, this paper is tried to deals with the way of the generational interaction or opposition in Iran based on the limitations, capacity and the methods being applied. Generational various capacities make the generational interactions possible and its result range is from of cultural social reproduction to cultural social separation. On the other hand, generational limitations, rooted in expectations and experience and generation knowledge, pave the ground for the needs for intergenerational interactions.

This paper is tries to deal with the generational gap, and specifies its dangers for the country which has not been experienced it despite of various threats and large scale wars during the thousands of years. To react against this threat, national identity is put forward which is created during a long period and play an important role in integrity and national unity (and prevent from the generational gap as well as disintegration of race, language, family and the likes).In this relation, some issues such as types of identities in the contemporary world and the role played by nation making and the integrating elements of national identity and different viewpoints for defining Iran national identity and the consequences and the dangers of each viewpoints will discuss in the paper. It is tried to deal with the identification of the effect of large dangers and elements of identity separation. Paper conclude with the present the results and our suggestions.

Nature of attitudes, and norms of new generation of Iranian society and the relations between the generations is an important issue of today. This issued was noted after the end of imposed war and starting the developmental plan when Iranian society experienced cultural and social changes. Along with these changes, the teenagers enter into the society and play their role in it and named "the Third Generation" little by little. The society faces some issues as the result of the simultaneous happening of the changes and different roles played by this generation in the society and also exhibited of some behaviors and values by them. Can the generations explain the levels of cultural and social changes of the society? What is the nature of the relation between the generations? These questions are noted by the scientists and the scholars of the universities and caused different researches. Some of these studies have opposite results. Some resulted that generational separation occurs, and some other find that there is no generational separation. This paper studies the concepts of generation and generational separation in the studies done in this regard and has a look at the way for recognizing the nature of this concept in researches and studies in this area and some of its issues and problems.

This research is an attempt to study the reasons of the youth's tendency towards some symbols of the western civilization and culture in District 1 of Shiraz. First, designed questionair were teated on sample of 60 individual and after modification of primariy questionair distributed in our universe that contain of 380 individuals the sample size obtained by Lin-table. Datas were analysis through inferential & descriptive statistics. Independent variables in this study are socio-economical status, friendship groups tendencies, self trust, & individual distance from socializing institations. Results indicated 12 out of 15 factors have meaningful relation to the dependent variables. Level of national and religious tendencies shows the strongest relation of 0.583; also the person distance with the political system is at the level of 0.44; tendency toward the west cultural values is 0.429; person's social distance with family is 0.192 and with educational system is 0.18 have the meaningful relation with dependent variables. Among the factors of social and economical factors, level of the fathers education has more impacts on the tendency toward the western culture rather than the other factors. The preset study shows that as much as the person distance from the socializing institute increase, the gap between the generation become deeper.

Generational gap is one of the today society issues. The social problems and issues created by it are so much extensive that make it necessary to be dealt with without any delay. One of the various aspects which should be dealt with is art. What are the art impacts on generational gap? Can art, in principle, have a role in eliminating the gap between the generations? If yes, how? If we believe that tradition is an important generational elements, traditional art can be regarded as an important element for making the link between the generations. In this paper traditional art means art with its today features that merely having its roots in the past. Although so many papers have been written by the researchers, but none of them have dealt with a relation that traditional art act as a link between the present and past generations. This paper beside reviewing the concepts of art, traditions, and traditional art, note a revision and amendments is the definitions. It follows with the methods that traditional art impacts in eliminating the gaps between the generations and its consequences. To do this, some suggestions are presented.