A Studying the Relations Between Social Capital and Social Anomy

Changes emerged in recent decades dramatically affect the formation and intensification of social problems among Iranian youth. Among the social problems we can mention the social anomy among the social members that reflects the chaos and anomy in the society. This article is allocated to social anomy among Tabriz Azad University students and effect of social capital on it. The research method was survey and the population was graduated students of Tabriz Azad University in 1387-1388. They were 18743 from which we choose 400 students as sample through stratified sampling method. After collecting data, in order to analyze the hypothesis, we used r Pierson tests, regression analysis and path analysis through SPSS software. Based on the findings, mean of social anomy among the students is more than average. The results of regression show that independent variables can explain 12% of changes in dependent variable. Among them, the social capitals indexes (institutional trust, social participation and social cohesion) affect the social anomy.