Social Capital, Social Trust, pathological Symptoms of Social Relations in Iran.

The concept of social capital includes the capital and the sources of theinstitutions, the relations and the norms that show the quantity and quality ofsocial interactions in a society. Due to its nature and content, this concept canbe used in theoretical analysis in different fields that the field of socialdeviances is one of them. Based on the complex nature of the social deviances,social capital as a basic device has a high capability to determine and interpretthe social problems such as social deviances. Concerning the reciprocalinfluences of the social capital and the various problems of the societyespecially the social deviances and the method of their presence in the lives ofthe social actors, this study offers a definition of the social capital anddiscusses the relationship between the social deviances and the social capitalregarding the research results.