Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:12 Issue: 41, Spring 2021

As a part of human capital, women can play a decisive role in developing a country with their social participation. With a look at the recent history of Iran, one can see the presence of women in political, social, economic and cultural arenas; a presence which has sometimes been really serious and sometimes weak, but irrefutably active in social developments of Iran. This research aims to study some factors influencing women's participation in Deylam city. The statistical population consisted of women, 18-45 years of age, living in Deylam city, out of which 245 individuals were selected using random sampling method. The data were analyzed by SPSS 24. The tool for data collection was one questionnaire. The results showed a significant and direct relationship between the independent variables (age, socioeconomic class, use of mass media and social security) and the dependent variable (women's social participation). Regression analysis also showed that social security with B= 0.49, and socioeconomic class with B= 0.44, had the highest share in explaining women's participation.

The study sought to investigate the interplay between shyness and young language learners’ (YLL) language achievement (LA). To undertake this study, 40 intermediate YLL comprising 20 males and 20 females took part in the study. They were homogenized in terms of language proficiency via the Oxford Placement Test (OPT) and a shyness questionnaire (SQ). First, the participants were asked to take the OPT. Next, they were required to fill out the SQ. The findings showed that non-shy YLLs performed better on the placement test than the shy YLLs. More precisely, there was a negative relationship between shyness and English LA. The findings also attested that there was no significant relationship between the gender (i.e., shy and non-shy YLL) and their LA. The findings may have both theoretical and pedagogical implications. From a theoretical underpinning, foreign LA can lead to a better understanding of the complex nature of the construct of shyness. From a pedagogical aspect, language teachers may employ different strategies to tackle YLLs' shyness with the hope to promote LA.

The present article examines the sociological concept of quality of life and its realization priorities. The research has used the Delphi Method by collecting and analyzing 30 questionnaires among professors, elites and informants using a heterogeneous method in two panels. The research results show that the quality of life is a complex, multidimensional, borderless and updating structure should be evaluated comprehensively and away from reductionism. Delphi results and 54 concepts for achieving quality of life showed that under the variables of income and employment, health, education, environment, leisure, housing, living facilities as a category of objective quality, social security, social communication, social support, social respect, freedom, social trust, social justice as social quality and life satisfaction as subjective quality can be categorized. The results also showed that the priority of achieving the dimensions of quality of life for citizens, from the average of 10 points, were identified as objective dimensions with 8.78, subjective with 8.5 and social with 8.14 points, respectively.

Academic achievement is one of the important indicators of human capital in any society and social capital as a facilitating social phenomenon affects academic achievement. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between social capital indicators and students' academic achievement. The theoretical approach of this article refers to the function, facilitation and capacities of students in the field of social capital, which can be related to academic success through indicators such as (communication, participation, trust, security and cohesion).The methodology of the present study is descriptive-correlational and the study population is male high school students in Ghaen city in Khorasan Razavi that have been selected based on cluster-random sampling method and the sample size of 155 people has been obtained through Cochran's formula; and using a self-made interview questionnaire, information was collected from the respondents at the level of sequential assessment. Through descriptive and inferential tests, respondents' information was analyzed with SPSS software Cronbach's alpha for the social capital variable is 0.734 and for the academic achievement variable is 0.710. The weighted average of the independent variable and its components is between 58.6- 74.7 and for the dependent variable and its components is between 65.7- 78. Among the indicators of the independent variable, social capital (social interactions) and among the components of the indicators of academic achievement had the highest rate. Based on the results of the hypothesis, between the components of the independent and dependent variables, a significant relationship with moderate intensity can be observed between some of these components. In addition, social interactions, social participation, social trust, social security and social cohesion had the highest relationship with the dependent variable, respectively.

The cooperative is one of the three most important economic sectors of the country. Co-operatives can contribute to the economic and social development of a society. This study aimed to study the role of cooperatives in economic and social development in Qom province. The research method is survey and its tool is a questionnaire. The statistical population of this study is the members of manufacturing and service cooperatives of Qom province which are 830044 persons in total. Through multi-stage cluster sampling, 400 members of cooperatives were selected as sample. The findings of the study show that the mean of social development variable is at an average downward level. The highest average was in terms of indices of civic activities, physical health and generalized norms, respectively. The lowest mean is also for social cohesion and social awareness. Average economic development is 2.44 and is below average. And it's also lower than social development. Multivariate regression results show that 40.5% of social development changes and 30.1% of economic development are affected by cooperatives and cooperatives. The result is that cooperatives and their positive performance can provide the basis for social and economic development. Co-operatives can also play a role in creating an economic cloud.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social and economic capital and the consumption of cultural goods among students of Azad and Payame Noor universities in Sanandaj city. For this, a model is presented that includes the variables of social capital, economic capital and consumption of cultural goods. The statistical population of this study includes students of Azad and Payame Noor universities of Sanandaj and the number of statistical sample was 372 people that selected by random classification method. In this research, inferential methods (t-test, linear regression and analysis of variance) and structural equations methods have been used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. SPSS software was used for this purpose. The results showed that the factors of social capital, social participation, social trust, social communication, economic capital and income are directly related to cultural consumption of cultural goods, but no relationship was found between quality of life and consumption of cultural goods.

According to sociologists, one of the dimensions of religiosity is the ritual dimension, and praying is one of the most important indicators of the ritual nature of religion. Prayer is the highest manifestation of the need, which has a wide connection with different dimensions of human life. The research method is survey and the sample size is equal to 300 students. Prayer has a great influence on the individual and social life of a person, and his conditions and conventions regulate and correct the entire system and human relationships. In today’s word that cultural breakthrough heavily has threatened the health and safety of many societies, every day we see an uproar and rebellion and it is only the prayer and trust in God and non-help relives that can be the savior of the fall in the scriptures of sins. The family, which is the fundamental unit and the center of human growth and excellence, play an important role in attracting the youth to prayer. In the present studies results obtained from statistical and analytical research that has been done among all of the elementary, first and second period students of high school in Ardabil province, their parents from - among the various components – have dedicated the highest statistics to themselves (46.3 percent) in attracting the youth to the prayer. So, the role of parents has been undeniable in encouraging their youth to prayer and mosques for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing the Islamic and national identity of the family and society. The present research also seeks to provide effective working methods for parents to achieve this goal.

Experts immigration is one of the major problems in developing countries. In another side internet daily extensive and availability of virtual climate has an unavoidable impacts on personal and social aspects.Therefore, in this study, the relationship between membership in social networks and have a tendency to migrate have been examined. The theoretical framework is Ravnshtayn theory, globalization and social capital. Ravnshtayn believes that extensive communication facilitate migration which nowdays internet and vitual social media are suitable channel to facilitates Cross-border communications.  Internet has also led to present of transnational identities and has correlation with other variables such as social capital, national identity and national belonging cosmopolitan. The methodology of the study is survey and questionnaire was used. The study sample 526 students of Tehran University was selected using random cluster. The main hypothesis of the research based on the use of virtual social networks and increasing students' tendency to emigrate from the country was confirmed. Among the sub-hypotheses, social capital and cosmopolitanism had a significant direct relationship with the tendency to emigrate and national identity, family belonging and national belonging had a significant inverse relationship with the tendency to emigrate, and all hypotheses were confirmed. The results showed that in addition to the significant effects of using virtual social networks in increasing their tendency to migrate, its indirect effects on the tendency to migrate through increasing the sense of cosmopolitanism and reducing the sense of national belonging and sense of national identity are significant.