Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:1 Pre-Issue: 2, 2010

This research studies the sociological factors involving in boys juvenile delinquency in Golestan (Northern province of Iran).Delinquent behavior treats the health of family and society and causes family disorder.It tries to understand the role of family and peer groups in delinquency. As we see in Sutherland theory of differential reinforcement association and Hirshi social control verify the role of peer groups and friends in Juvenile delinquency.

This research explains and analyzes the value changes among the youth (15-29) years of age living in Mazandaran (Northern Iran). The survey, the quessionare and interview were used and after gathering the data, the whole research was statistically analyzed.The framework theory was including such as functionalism, structuralism, conflict and symbolic interactions. The data show that there are some similarities at macro-social and national level but at micro-personal level there are some differences in value trends. Specially in individual ways to access to different value classes.Some factors like socio-trust, reference group, social prestige, socio-economic statues and social identity along with age, gender, income, occupation, and education influence on value changes among young generation.

This research studies the effect of family, and other social institutions on the attitudes of the youth of Noushahr and Chalous in drug addiction.A Sample of 1200 boys and girls were randomly chosen through a quessionare (Alpha %84) the data (gathered and the results) show that there is a significant difference among young addicted persons specially including their attitudes towards family, peer groups, education and trust to any other social institutions.Mass media has no significant impact on the attitude. Those sample population were strongly affected by life surroundings and small communities involved in family, living settings, educational settings and other organizations play an important role in drug usage among young ones. But at macro level analysis drug users and nonusers have similar attitudes to social institutions.

Present society of Iran, with its young population structure specially after forming and developing modernism and its conflict with tradition as well as the voluminous, various, rapid dominance of mass media has been affected by value conflict whether in micro level of personality or macro level of internalization and turned to a society full of conformance, adaptation, alienation, identity confusion and identity crisis are its outcomes that result in society with extravagant toward unclear future.Identity is subjected to daily changing process and redefinition by expanding globalization increasingly and supporting mass media power, is one of the most important problems in contemporary world.In some societies identity is being developed and coherent and in some societies as a problem it creates crisis, tensions and significant gaps. So the subject of this research is in the same direction and it studies and reviews effective social factors on forming coherent Iranian identity and its case study of Bukan’s youth (western Iran) in 2010. For studing this subject, in addition to pointing to dimensions and components of Iranian identity it has studied effective internal and external factors of forming identity crisis among Iranian youth and lack of forming a national identity which is convergent with national advent ages as well as different cultures and ethnicity in Iran.The method of this research is survey and questionnaire has been used for data collection.Findings indicate that for reaching a national coherent identity we should typically consider the youth employment, writing and literal application of mother tongue and blooming of different esthetic identity, and great attention being paid to needs and rights of Iranian ethnic.In addition, since Iranian culture is composed of Islamic elements, it is necessary to consider relations and Iranian identity simultaneously and in direction of forming and internalizing a suitable identity should be managed by Iranian society.This important requires a creative and critical thinking, and it is necessary for studding exist factors and identity negative and positive forming variables of Iranian identity to get away from extravagant boasting and crisis must be managed in a way that negative variables could be substituted by positive culture variables gradually. Also extraneous factors will practically be dealt with variation factors optionally in order to be internalized parallel with Iranian society’s needs.

For marriage, we need at least a positive tendency but a forced or expedient marriage leads to divorce.Living in a society full of loving and respecting each other is necessary and it is an outcome of an organized family.This paper tries to analyze the effect of social structure on establishment of sustainable relation and emotional relationship.We can examine this subject from two point of views. Including personal and psychological characteristics.(micro level), and social structure and its effect on after marriage stage.Through this paper, the latter view was analyzed and due to status quo of present society of Iran and the effect of material life's urbanization, modernization and recent feminisms so lots of women enter to social forums and fields. Thus new conflict of values and norms, happens between new generations specially relationship between opposite sexes. In this case, this paper tries to analyze the material changes and its effect on the relationship between men and women.

This research studies TV commercial from cultural-conflict view point and tries to analyze mutual relation between parent-child generations.It applies signifier's method for reflecting TV commercials. Signifying qualitative method on the base of General signifies along with "first levels signifiers" and "Second level signifiers" obtained Symbolic displacement.This research shows TV commercial from subjective and from objective power perspective is equal to this paradigm which leads to inequality and gap in power structure in society.

These years the pattern of drug addiction among the youth has been changed a lot. This study focuses on the pattern and the ways of drug uses among the youth in Isfahan and evaluates the practices for controlling and reducing them.It also studies the misuse of drugs in young addicted persons specially those who took part in anonymous group discussion.The sample includes 220 of above mentioned young users and it analyzes the statistical methods for clarifying the data.The results show that the drug users in Isfahan and the ages of them are reducing as well, Cocaine, Hashish and Opiom are among them.

The study attempts to answer two basic questions. Firstly, whether religiosity is efficient in reducing delinquent behavior and, secondly, if the answer is yes, how much is its effect?The samples was divided into common people and delinquent youth in prison. The scholars like Durkheim, Weber, Stark, Glock and those assertions regarding delinquency as Merton, Hirschi learning theory including Sutherland differential association, Matza youth delinquency were utilized.The most important hypotheses proposed in the research are the effects of religiosity and four dimensions as belief, consequence, rituals and experience which help to reduce delinquent behavior.The method applied is survey research. Observed results of the non-delinquent youths in ritual variable bear the highest correlation with the dependent variable. Only ritual dimension influenced directly on reducing delinquency (-0.39).The other dimensions, that is, religiosity, consequence, and experience had indirect effect on delinquency. The test used in the study are regression, path analysis and T-test. Observed results show that the two independent variables, religious consequence (-0.35) and religious rituals (-0.36) have direct impact on the dependent variable, namely, delinquency. The other variables belief and experience had indirect influence on delinquency. All hypotheses in the research were proved. The findings assert that the more individuals believe in God and the more they perform religious injunctions, therefore, there will be a considerable reduction in delinquency.