The study of Interactional Anomie and problematic of virtual social capital in the transition from the Corona era (a case study of Instagram users)

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Ahmad Moazzeni ¹ , elham zadmehr ²

1 - Assistance professor, Department of social sciences, payaame noor university, Tehran, Iran
2 - Master's degree student, Department of Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-06-13 Accepted : 2023-08-26 Published : 2023-07-23

Keywords: Interactional Anomie, online social capital, offline social capital, problematic, bridging ties,

Abstract :

 This research has studied the interactional anomie in Corona era and its relationship with online andoffline social capital of users. Emphasis on weak ties, within the framework of social capital theory in the onlineand offline space in the conditions of interactional crisis with a problematic approach has shaped the conceptualframework. In this research, problematic refers to the issue of how and in what mechanism the virtual spaceboth connects and breaks social interactions. The research was carried out by surveying and distributing anonline questionnaire among 376 Instagram users in the form of available sampling. The most important aim ofresearch is to study the social interactions based on social capital in the era of Corona and whether Instagramsocial media has been able to create a kind of linking social capital in interactional anomie? The indicate thatonline and offline social capital of users is lower than the average of the society, In other words, like the resultsof many researches, social capital has been eroded in Iran, but the quality of using Instagram has been able toaffect the increase and creation of linking social capital. 

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