YOUTHS, CULTURE AND SOCIETY RESEARCH
Year:2010 | Volume:- | Issue:4|Papers Count:9

The purpose of this research is study relationship between religiosity and scientific orientation and activity among PHD students of Shiraz University. All PHD students are universe of this research which included 642 people and didn’t use any sampling methods in this investigation and only 449 people possible to achieve. The method of this study is survey and the tool of gathering data is questionnaire. Merton’s theory about interaction between science and religion is used in this research. In general the most important descriptive results show that more than sixty percent of responders have middle religiosity. Finally, there is a negative relation between religiosity and scientific orientation among all respondents. However, this relationship is positive for scientific activity. It declares different students orientation about science and religion in subjective and objective area.

This Paper deals with the relation between using satellite Tv's and Kurdish cultural identity among the Kurd students of Sanandaj City. Theoretically, it has employed a synthetic approach based on the Castells and Giddens views on the effects and consequences of media for identity. The quantitative – survey methodology was used and the questionnaire was employed for data collection. The sample size was determined by Cochran method upon which 378 samples were studied.Findings of the research showed that about 46.5 of respondents have used satellite media. Satellite use was measured in terms of hours and based on the three types of usage, including News, entertainment, and Education. Then, its relationship with eight components of cultural identity, both individual and the whole, was examined. Hypothesis testing revealed that there is a significant relationship between the amount of using satellite and the content used (particularly, News, entertainment Contents), and cultural identity: : the more use of satellite, the less adherence to cultural identity, which in turn is indicative of tendencies toward new behavior patterns. It also showed that adherence to cultural identity among respondents tends towards the partial-adaptive position.

Dividing religious values into two categories of “ritual-oriented” and “spiritual-oriented”, the present article, studies the effect of financial and social status of Iranian families on each. We have based our work, terminologically, on Durkheim's definition, and theoretically, on Weber’s discussion of the way religious values, both, effect the objective status of religious agents, and are affected by them. The research also considers the ways in which the resultant ethic of economy, in turn, affects religious values. Accordingly, two hypotheses arose, and finally, regarding the data gathered from a national survey, we evaluated and measured “Iranians’ intellectual values”. The survey was carried out by the Institute for Social Studies and Researches at a national level in 27 provinces, with the sample of 2, 275 people. The relation between the two variables of the research in the first hypothesis (financial and social status of Iranian families, and ritual-oriented religious values) turned out meaningful and positive. This was the case with the relations of the two variable in the second hypothesis (financial and social status of Iranian families, and spiritual-oriented religious values). So, financial and social status directly and positively affects different types of Iranians religious commitments.

Family is an Integration link of culture and social order. In fact it's an institute responsible for maintaining the societies moral health. Its major function is to Upbringing normal individuals socially, and mentally, and behaviorally compatible ones.The article has studied the relationship between family's social capital and youth identity. The purpose of the research is to study aspects of discoursal, normative relationships inside the family and social identity as the main research variable, as well as, to study social capital and social identity of the youth, and the way they link together. Social capital as a key concept in sociology, includes norms and relations. The concept of identity has both subjective and objective dimensions. Its subjective dimension involves individuals attitudes and trust toward and in society. Objective dimension includes their social participations. The students of high school and pre-university levels in state schools of the districts of 3, 16, and 18 in Tehran in Year 1386-87 have selected as the research population. 203 students were selected as research sample by random sampling. The findings of the research reveal a meaningful and positive relation of 99 % between the two variables of social capital of family and social identity.

TV programs not only reflect existing situation of the society, but also can act as offering behavior patterns for the viewers, especially, when they find a sort of similarity between the acting characters and themselves. It is also the case for TV serials. The present research was carried out with the purpose of studying the representation of the relationships intergenerational in TV serials. The research population included four serials broadcasted in 1385 on channel 1 (the national channel), and channel 3 (the youth channel). The two serials of each channel are selected deliberately because of their family genre. The research method was content analysis. Three kinds of relationships - Solidarity, difference, conflict- among the three generations- old, middle-aged, and young- were checked for each serial. According to the findings of the research, Television and its Iranian serials stress Solidarity pattern in relationships among generations, and this pattern is the dominant represented one. However, studies shows that the actual relationship follows a different pattern.

The present study examines self-reported life satisfaction among 450 university students (162 males and 288 females) at the University of Ferdosi, Mashhad. At first, Theoretically discussed if Life Satisfaction is a simple variable or a multi-dimensional construct. We assume that it is simple. It was found that there are no significant differences between males and females life satisfaction in different facilities, statistically. Variables such as ”self satisfaction“, ”satisfaction of university“ & ”optimism“ have great effects on the issue, for both male and female students.

Transition To University is one of the most critical events of the Youth lives, which accompanies with high pressure on Them. Hence, appropriate performances from the students are required for their adaptation to new situation. Such an adaptation is influenced by different variables. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between adaptation to University and social support.The data of this study collected from 200 male and female students of Isfahan University. The research instruments included: i) Baker and Siryk’s Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) (1986, 1989, 1999) which measures Fours dimensions of Academic Adjustment, social Adjustment, Personal-Emotional Adjustment and Institutional Attachment, and ii) Zimet, Dahlam, Zimet, and Farley’s Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSSS) (1988,1990) which consists of three dimensions: family social support, friends social support, others important social support.Reliability of instrument for total, male, and female students is respectively 0.873, 0.846 and 0.895. The degree of adaptation to university was average, and Personal-Emotional adjustment was estimated high where as this adaptation to academic, social, and institutional attachment has been evaluated as an average level. the research shows that social support is fairly in high level. There is meaningful relationship between adaptation to university and social support (r=0.38). But, there is no difference between male and female students in this respect. Three dimensions of social supports and four dimensions of adaptation have a meaningful relationship with adaptation to university.