Identification and Assessment of Facilitating Factors of Youths' Social Identity Construction in Social System (A Case Study of the Students of University of Tehran)

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

Abolfazl Ashrafi ¹ , Reza Ali Mohseni ² , Tahmoures Shiri ³

1 - PhD Candidate in Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. Faculty member of Department of Social Science, Faculty of Management, Imam Ali University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Faculty member of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
3 - Associate Professor of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran.

Received: 2020-02-17 Accepted : 2020-11-28 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: youths, Social Identity", Social System", Facilitating Factors of Social Identity",

Abstract :

Holding a novel and different approach, this study aims to investigate the nature of both social identity construction and social system development as two subjective and challenging issues in a dialectic process and based on an integrative sociological and socio-psychological approach in the light of three theoretical perspectives at macro, micro and medium scales (vis-a- vis mainly the suggested subjective orientations).. The main question addressed is whether individuals’ sense of social identity construction subject to Facilitating Factors of youths' Social Identity Construction in Social System. To this end, facilitating factors of social system-based construction among youths was addressed with a sample of 445 probability stratified sampling selected students from Tehran University. Attending this field study, they attempted a researcher-made tablet-rendered valid and reliable questionnaire. Content and construct validity measures of the instrument were measured through expert judgment and factor analysis, respectively and its reliability was estimated through Cronbach alpha correlational analysis. One sample parametric t-test and Binomial test-based analyses of the data supported the main hypothesis predicting that social system through precipitating factors has no effective role (T=21/45) on identity construction of youth. This study mainly suggests a scientific, different and comprehensive applied model for social identity construction on the basis of facilitating factors of social system.