sociological study of communicational technologies in social identity structure(ardebil province young case study)

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Nziri Mehdi ¹ , Mohammad Reza Rashidi Alehashem ² , Azizkhani Eghbaleh ³ , MohammadReza Hfezisefat ⁴

1 - student
2 - university professor assitant
3 - professor assisstant
4 - Researcher Emam Hosein university

Received: 2021-02-15 Accepted : 2021-09-18 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: y"outh", "communication technologies", l"evels of identity", "self-perception", "social identity",

Abstract :

The structure of social identity gives meaning to life that is formed in the process of socialization. This study aims to explain the structure of youth social identity with communication technologies as an important element of socialization, using the theory of Rosenberg and Castells. Data were collected among 382 people aged 15-29 years by survey method. The results showed that the structure of youth social identity is different; So that 17% of them have their own existing harvest, 42% have their own imaginary harvest and 41% have their own harvest. Analysis of multivariate tests indicates that the use of communication technologies has a positive and significant effect on self-perception and self-ideal and the opposite effect on self-perception. Data analysis also showed that the use of communication technologies has a direct and significant effect on the formation of global and ethnic identity levels, but the effect of technology use on religious and national levels was not confirmed.