Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:13 Issue: 47, Autumn 2022

The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors of crime in the outskirts of Sari city and ways to prevent it. This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of survey type. Its statistical population consisted of all the people aged 20 to 39 living in the outskirts of Sari city, and due to the unlimited number of statistical population, 250 people were selected as a statistical sample by simple random sampling method. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation tests, one-way analysis of variance and multivariate regression were used.The results showed that; There is an inverse and significant relationship between warm and intimate family relationships and the level of religiosity with crime, but there is a positive and significant relationship between cold and contentious family and peer group relationships with crime and delinquency. Also, there is a significant relationship between the economic status of the family and the amount of crime and delinquency.

This article examines the role of social and cultural factors on environmental behavior. For this purpose, Ronald Inglehart's theory of values, Bourdieu's cultural capital, Calmus and Ajigman's pattern of environmental behavior were used as a theoretical framework. The research method is survey and the statistical population is over 18 years old in Sari and Joibar cities. The sampling method is multi-stage cluster and the sample size according to Cochran's formula is 400 people. Data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, path analysis and regression analysis using SPSS software. Formal validity was used to assess validity and the reliability of the environmental behavioral variable was 0.858, which is very high and its items were able to have the necessary internal harmonization. The results show that the average environmental behavior among individuals is high and the average is 3.78. There is a significant positive and direct relationship between religiosity, social participation, cultural capital, social trust, environmental sociability and environmental behavior. Sociability and religiosity have a positive and significant relationship with four dimensions of environmental behavior (energy consumption behavior, environmental protection behavior, environmental behavior in travel and environmental shopping pattern) and environmental advertising and media use only with the environmental purchasing pattern has a significant relationship. Independent variables explain and predict 33% of the variance and changes in environmental behavior. The result is that economic and social factors have a great impact on environmental behaviors. Socialization and transfer of environmental knowledge and information by family, school, social environment and society has an important role in increasing the environmental behaviors of residents of Sari and Joibar cities and its role is more important than the media and environmental propaganda. Socio-cultural factors such as religiosity, trust, cultural capital and education are also determinants of environmental protection.

Life is the biggest blessing that God has gifted to humans. Having a desirable life has always been and is the will and desire of the man. The quality of life is considered as a concept for illustrating the social wellbeing and human as abasis for development in both material and mental aspects. relative deprivation feeling arising from the comparison to others is regarded as one of the factors affecting wellbeing and a life quality with its complex dimensions. This thesis aims to find an answer to the question that what relationship has been between the relative deprivation feelings and the quality of life in the youth. And importantly, what is the quality of this relationship? The statistical population of this investigation has been comprised of the youth eighteen to thirty years olde residents of The city of Tehran in the year 2021. The method of this research was survey study and the information collected by the technique of face to face in the format of questionnaire. The sample size is 404 people and the samples have been selected by systematic cluster probability sampling method. For judgement regarding the assumptions, we have used the Pearson coefficient tests and Linear regression.The findings showed that; increasing the relative deprivation feelings reduced the quality of life in the youth and vice versa.

The purpose of this study is students' dependence on the Internet due to communication with peers. This research has been done with emphasis on the theory of Internet dependence and peer socialization approach. From the methodological point of view of the quantitative survey-based approach, 396 people have been selected as the sample size among the high school students in the 2nd and 3rd high schools of Mashhad, based on the Cochran's formula. Random multi-stage cluster sampling and standardized questionnaire were used. Findings were analyzed by SPSS software using statistical tests. The total alpha value is 0.863 and the convergence validity is 0.650. The results showed that the average status of research variables was moderate and some of its dimensions were moderate. The results also show that there is no difference between Internet dependence and communication with peers with the gender variable. There was a significant difference between age groups and Internet dependence; In addition, a significant relationship with moderate intensity was found between the main hypothesis of communication with peers with internet dependence rate and a significant relationship with low intensity between sub-hypotheses with internet dependency variable. According to the regression beta, the components of relationship type and relationship quality at the error level less than 0.05 had a significant relationship with the dependent variable and the independent variable and its dimensions explained about 39.3% of the dependent variable changes.

Satisfaction with Iranian national identity includes a person's attitude and his general evaluation towards his identity as a whole or some aspects of his life. In this research, the relationship between self-differentiation, ethnic hegemony and satisfaction with national identity was investigated. The aim is to determine the relationship between self-differentiation and the mediating role of ethnic hegemony on satisfaction with the national identity of Iranian ethnicities. The present research is a descriptive-applicative and correlational survey, the statistical population of which consists of men and women from five ethnicities: Persian, Arab, Baloch, Kurdish and Azeri. The sample size of this research includes 645 people in the young age group(15-30) who were selected based on Cochran's formula. In this research, proportional stratified sampling was done. The most important criterion for entering the research was the ethnicity of the people. The data was collected based on Skorn and Friedland's own differentiation questionnaire and researcher-made questionnaire. The findings of the research regarding the three hypotheses proposed in this research indicate the confirmation of all three hypotheses. The results show that self-differentiation is effective on ethnic hegemony and ethnic hegemony is also effective on satisfaction with Iranian national identity.

The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between social learning strategy and language motivational self system with English language anxiety in students. Research methods was descriptive and correlational; 259 high school students were selected to respond to Horwitz et al ELCA scale, Oxford’s LLS Questionnaire, and Taguchi et al’s LMSS questionnaire. Data was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Findings showed that there is a negative and significance correlation between social learning strategy and language motivational self system and English language anxiety at the 0.01 and 0.05 level. Also regression analysis showed language motivational self system can significantly predict English language anxiety, but social learning strategy cannot.

The issue of political participation can be viewed from different view points and political participation is different in the discourse of different governments. The basic hypothesis of a discourse approach is that the possibility of thought, action and complete understanding depends on the construction of the semantic domain. So, the purpose of this article is to analyze and investigate the political participation in the discourse of the reform based government and to investigate its semantic system based on the theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and qualitative in terms of type. In this regard, Fairclough's discourse analysis method was used. The time of the current research, in terms of the research dimension, included the presidency period of Mr. Khatami. The statistical community is a collection of speeches and interviews of the heads of government during the reform period regarding political participation. The analysis of the sentences was done in order to find the signifiers of the justice-oriented principled discourse based on Laclau and Mouffe's method.

The findings of the research indicate that the reformist discourse is identified with the central sign of democracy and the elaboration of the signs of civil society, reforms, law, freedom and political development. In this period, the political participation of young people is high and compared to the previous periods, there is a significant increase in the political participation of young people. During the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, the stage was prepared for people's participation and media freedom.

Nowadays, youths have the important portion of population in Iran that confront with types of social harms. High risk behavior is one of them. High-risk behaviors are defined as acts that increase the risk of disease or injury, which can subsequently lead to disability, death, or social problems. the article tries to examine effect of parent conflict on High-Risk Behaviors among youth in Amol city. Research method in the article was survey. statistical sample was 384 student that selected by multi-level sampling with emphasis on cluster sampling. Data gathered by questionnaire. The test presents that conflict with parent has significant relation at 0/01 with all dimensions of dependent variable (high risk behavior). Coefficient Of Determinations is R2=0.34. conflict family variable has meaningful and positive effect on risky behavior (Beta=0.58). more conflict with family, more tendency to risky behavior among student.so they show lower tendency to self-care. family educational role and manner of their socialization have important role in youth self-care. Youths' interaction quality with parent affect in prevention of social harms, so it is necessary for family to manage their relation with children in correct path.