The mutual interaction of structural and value forces in Iran’s modern society has created a new situation for the transitional experience towards adulthood and the relation among generations. Developments,   and individualization are among the major fields leading towards non-standardization and unrelated transitions.The present article surveys the demands of change and evolution during the experience of transition process and its effects on the power relationship of youth with their families, their increased tendency for capturing independence, democratizing the family relations and mutual socialization based on the researcher’s experimental studies about culture and sub-cultural issues of the Iranian youth. The researcher has also relied on recent national surveys and studies. The major reasoning of this essay is to express that the experience of mutual generational of youth in family and greater communities shows consistency and unity rather than the so-called generational gap and detachment. And although the forces directing it are increasingly influenced by the evolutionary cultural and value circumstances, it is still dependent on the structural and fundamental forces such as class, gender and the living place.

Using elements of Labov model, this research devotes to analyze intergenerational relationships (i.e. relations between young people and adults with an emphasis on parents) in Iranian TV popular Series which are focused on youth issues as their core theme. Our findings show that three general patterns are represented through these TV Series which are included generational agreements, generational changes (include differences, disturbances and interactions) and hidden or obvious generational gaps. Meanwhile the only one which positively represented attitudes and behaviors of both adults and young people is the generational agreement pattern. Also in other patterns there are some common obvious behaviors such as respectful behaviors of young people toward adults (in spite of their differences in fundamental values) and behaviors indicating good will of adults toward young people are presented as valuable actions. But criticized behaviors just known as the results of individual mistakes of both groups which either would be corrected by advices and helps of adults or would have some bad results. Such an approach toward the intergenerational relationships show that this social important issue has been reduced to the level of an individual issue by Iranian state TV (IRIB) and it seems affected by some general policies dominated in this media organization in representing intergenerational relationships. Such policies emphasize some serious limitations in “categorizing or polarizing members of different generations” and prevention of showing “family fights, contentions and severe conflicts” (even in comedy genre).

This research studies "the impact of social factors on generational relationships from the viewpoint of female students aged 20 to 26 years" in state universities of Tehran in 1395. The theoretical framework is the Theory of "Ingelhart's Value Transformation, Bengston's Growth, Giddens Globalization, Mannheim's Generation Experience, Changing the McLuhan Socialization Process". The research method is survey and the statistical population is 11406 people. Information was collected from a sample of 382 people. R Square ( ) indicates that the variables introduced into the equation account for 52% of the variance of the dependent variable variations. The coefficients of the effect of the model explaining the relationship between generations indicate that the variables "lifestyle, socializing with peer groups, communication and interactions within the family" in the regression equation are significant. According to path analysis coefficients, lifestyle with total coefficient of 0. 574 and internal family interaction and interaction with a total factor of 0. 478 show the most effect on the variable of generational relationships. The overall findings show that in explaining the difference between generations in the micro level, in the personality trait of young and middle-aged young girls, socialization and education of change have been created in terms of socialization and education, and young girls are a generation of change and the family plays a role in interacting with managing and reducing the generation conflict.

This paper undertakes an examination of cinematic narratives of common generational experiences in regard to the 8-year war of Iran. Through a structuralist approach, this paper aims to analyze representations of dichotomies relating to generational relations (including inter- and intragenerational relations) in Hatamikia's cinema:idealism/pragmatism, duty-boundness/outcome-boundness, love-focusedness/reasonfocusedness, introversion/extroversion, and preterism/futurism. The logic employed for analyzing the oppositions is that of Parson’s action models. Here five films of Hatamikia are looked at which are part of the war genre and also dwell on generational relations: Mohajer (1990), Az Karkheh ta Rhein (1993), Ajans-e Shishei (1997), Moj-e Mordeh (2001), Be Nam-e Pedar (2006). In the course of representing generational relations, from Mohajer to Be Nam-e Pedar, the director has gone from the first part of the abovementioned oppositions to the second part. This may point to the formation of an independent social sphere which has gradually been formed after the War, and influenced by which, the director has leaned toward the second part in his preferred reading.

Nature of attitudes and norms of new generation of Iranian society and the relations between the generations is an important issue of today. This issued was noted after the end of imposed war and starting the developmental plan when Iranian society experienced cultural and social changes. Along with these changes, the teenagers enter into the society and play their role in it and named "the Third Generation" little by little. The society faces some issues as the result of the simultaneous happening of the changes and different roles played by this generation in the society and also exhibited of some behaviors and values by them. Can the generations explain the levels of cultural and social changes of the society? What is the nature of the relation between the generations? These questions are noted by the scientists and the scholars of the universities and caused different researches. Some of these studies have opposite results. Some resulted that generational separation occurs, and some other find that there is no generational separation. This paper studies the concepts of generation and generational separation in the studies done in this regard and has a look at the way for recognizing the nature of this concept in researches and studies in this area and some of its issues and problems.

Virtual leisure is one of the new type of leisure in today society that has significant impact on intergenerational relationships. Virtual social networks with quick and easy access, overlap in time and space and provide special conditions for leisure. The main purpose of the article is to study the relationship between duration of use of virtual social network as virtual leisure and audience of these networks and its effect on intergenerational relationships; with consideration of zimel and mead theories. Survey method were applied with 1200 people as sample at national level. Results indicates there is a relationship between generational period and leisure in virtual social networks, there is also a reverse relationship duration of use of the virtual social networks and interaction between generations. With increase the time duration uses of these leisure, reduction occurs in intergenerational communication in the family. Different generational groups communicate in virtual social networks. There is no relationship between intergenerational communication and audience in the virtual social networks, and communication with family and relatives, did not result strengthening generational interaction. Increased membership in social networks has caused change the leisure pattern towards an active in cyberspace; such condition has the considerable effect on intergenerational relationships and changes in lifestyle. Also, spending virtual collective leisure time, even if with the family, does not lead to the strengthening of generational relationships.

The research investigated the issue of TV ads in the context of cultural studies and from the critical- cultural perspective. This study has focused on the family in order to read culture among the advertisements, so family from both the gender and generational relations has been analyzed. The main focus of the research is on the policy of representation of TV commercials across the country about couple bilateral relations and parent-child generational bilateral relations in Iranian families, in this way the power structure in the family can be understood. Using qualitative methods, this research has done based on the general principles of semiotics and followed the principles of “first order implications” that is centered mostly in syntagmatic axis and “second-order implications” assigned to Roland Barthes that has replaced in the axis of succession. This research shows that TV ads in “subjective aspect of power” with showing mental images consistent with male-dominated system, and in “objective aspect of power” with showing stereotypes that in the first step men (sexual) and in the second step parents (generational) make the final decision, leads to reproduction of power gap and inequality in family relationships.