Saeed Soltani; Mohammad-Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam
Abstract
Today, hope is considered as the most fundamental idea of youth in the field of social development. On the other hand, the three forms of capital can be considered the most important factor in strengthening hope for the future of youth. In the present study, the study of hope for the future has been ...
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Today, hope is considered as the most fundamental idea of youth in the field of social development. On the other hand, the three forms of capital can be considered the most important factor in strengthening hope for the future of youth. In the present study, the study of hope for the future has been considered in relationship with capital factors including social, capital and economic capital has been investigated. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical and survey in terms of data collection. Statistical population is young people aged 15 to 29 years in East Azerbaijan province, 613 of whom have been selected using Cochran's formula and multi-stage cluster sampling at 2018. To collect the data, were used Snyder standard hope questionnaire. Findings show that the average percentage of hope for the future of the studied youth is 62.23%, which shows that the hope for the future has a moderate to high status among young people. The results of testing the hypotheses show that marital status and age were not related to hope for the future of young people, but the average hope for the future was significantly different by city of residence and employment status. Also, hope for the future has a positive and significant relationship with social and cultural capital, but it does not have a significant relationship with economic capital. The results of regression analysis show that the three forms of capital explain about 26% of the variance of the hope for the future.
ROBABE ASLANI; samad rasoolzadeh agdam; mehrdad mohammadian
Abstract
Social alienation, with its impact on civic participation, trust, and social vitality, has always been questioned by sociologists. The study based on the theory of Giddens, Bourdieu and Rothstein is to study the social alienation of young people and the effect of perceived corruption in it by survey ...
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Social alienation, with its impact on civic participation, trust, and social vitality, has always been questioned by sociologists. The study based on the theory of Giddens, Bourdieu and Rothstein is to study the social alienation of young people and the effect of perceived corruption in it by survey method using a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population includes 14-29 year olds in Ardabil province who were selected by the Proportionate Stratified Random and using Cochran's formula 373 sample size. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire constructs were calculated using PLS software, which based on the value of AVE, combined reliability and Cronbach's alpha, the questionnaire was of good validity and reliability.
The results showed the level of social alienation and perception of corruption among the youth of Ardabil province was lower than average and the effect of perceived corruption on social alienation was significant. Also, the effect of perceived corruption on the intervention of economic and cultural capital variables and by controlling demographic variables (gender, marriage and place of residence) on the social alienation of young people was significant.The fit indices of the structural equation model showed that there is a high agreement between the experimental data and the conceptual model of the research.
