Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:1 Pre-Issue: 3, 2011

This article attempts to study the relationship between cultural capital of the youth with their individual and collective social identities and to scrutinize the correlation between cultural capital and different types of identity. For studying these two constructs (cultural capital and individual and collective identities) Bourdieu, Jenkins and Giddens theories were consulted and for measuring relationship between these two constructs T-Test and Pearson correlation coefficient were used.The results show that there is a relation between the youth’s cultural capital and their social identity. The most relationship of cultural capital is with personal and group identity and the least relationship of cultural capital is with national, religious and family identity. On the other hand, the results show that girls’ tendency toward collective types of identity is higher than boys’ and boys’ tendency toward individual types of identity is higher than girls’. Finally, the results show that the rate of cultural capital for the youth is nearly equal.

The purpose of this study is to assess the factors affecting membership satisfaction in Andimeshk, using the Cochran Formula with 260 people as sample size. Significant relationship between the variables for the statistical tests like Summer's D, Kendall, and Spearman and multivariate regression analysis and path analysis were mental health of family and social levels, and eliminating or controlling the amount of pure drug, the amount of physical and mental health, leisure-time employment and unemployment and community levels, strengthening levels of spiritual beliefs, occupation, level of participation of members, unemployment and role of nutritional status have been effected in Andimeshk. Regression analysis shows that 38 percent of total variable independent of changes in satisfaction are explained for members. Spending time and leisure variables, normal unemployment and spend health levels has direct effect on the whole.

The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between self- esteem, creativity, and the academic achievement among high school students (adolescences). The statistical sample is 8o high school students. Two questionnaires were used: Self- esteem and Creativity. Cooper Smith self-esteem Questionnaire and Torston. Milenjer creativity Questionnaire(CREE). The results show there is not significant relationship between creativity and academic achievement of high school students. There is not significant relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement of high school students. There are not significant differences between creativity and field of study and there is not a significant difference between self-esteem and field of study. And there arent significant differences between creativity and sexuality of students and no significant relationship between self-esteem and creativity and academic achievement among students.

While a lot of Psychologists, Sociologists and Criminologists, have profound anxiety with regard to growth of harshness in streets and public places, the probability of ones get into attack in family is more than it. Violence against women is a kind of violent behavior related to sexuality that leads to hurt or perhaps ensue to physical, sexually and psychological damages.The aim of this research is to study the domestic violence particularly violence against women among families of Dehgolan city(western of Iran). Research independent variables (social and familial factors) were deduced from social learning and social sources theories. According to Cochran sampling frame and multi-stage cluster sampling method were chosen about 245 of families and with questionnaire implement was collected intended information among couples.In general information derived from 200 questionnaires was analyzable and this task was performed with SPSS software and with used of advanced statistics like Multiple Regression.Analysis of data was indicating to confirmation of research's hypothesis with high degree of confidence. To detect of importance of independent variables for estimating dependent variable, multiple regression analysis reveals that variables including women's economic dependence, experience and observing violence by husbands in childhood, and weakness of social protections from women in society and family, explain 62 percent of variance violence against women. In addition, with regard to Standardized Beta, the variable of weakness of social protections and familial supports from women has had the most roles in explaining variance of dependent variable

This research is about effective factors of violence against women in Ahwaz city(south west of Iran). This explains biological structure of male and female history and definition of violence areas and kind of violence against women. This investigation is utilized frustration – aggression theory, sociological approach, existentialist feminism and conflict theory. The presentation of analytical model with conceptions explanation and operational definition of conceptions were used here. This research is done with 400 sample (20 to 39 ages) single and married women. For collecting data, hypothesizes inquired with Pearsons correlation coefficient and C one were analyzed.The results showed that there is a significance relation between poverty, on-working women, polygamy, sexuality inequality, patriarchal attitude, man illiteracy and lower excitability threshold and violence against women.

This paper tries to study the effective factors involving in social identity among high school students in Amol (Northern Iran) from three different viewpoints: Religion, family and national ones.This research is done by survey and questionnaire method.The sample were 372 Boys and girls. The findings show variables like self satisfaction, rationalization of affairs, and self-steastm influences on identity. At the end, each variable was studied from different social theories.

This paper is an attempt to study the Professional commitment and social factors affecting it. This article is based on a survey, from 230 respondents (37.4 percent were males and 60.9 percent females). The average age was 35 years old and the average salary was 471 $. Among them, 31.5 percent were single and 68.5 percent were married.The average work experience is 10.5 years and classes are about 15. The professional commitment on a scale of 0-4 is 2.1. The results show there is a significant relationship between the education and job role ambiguity, sense of organizational support, job satisfaction, sense of organizational justice, work alienation, religious attitudes and beliefs, sense of organizational control, and marital status with professional commitment at the level of 0.95 is meaningful. The independent variables explain 24.5% changes of the dependent variable.

This survey is stratified random sampling among 425 students in Islamic Azad University of Mashhad (north east of Iran) in 2011 the questionnaire has been implemented in the research.The validity of the questionnaire for face validity and Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient is used.In this study, social capital indexes like "social participation, social trust and networks of social relationship" with a questionnaire designed by the researchers and "life satisfaction" questionnaire of Diner has been measured. The Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regressions were used in the data analysis.There is a significant relationship between social capital and life satisfaction in the research and social participation, social trust and social network with a significant relationship between life satisfactions has been tested. Multivariate regression analysis shows that social network variables in explaining the effect of changes in life satisfaction have special role.