Objectives: Youth are a significant proportion of Iranian population and one of the main problems of them is delinquent behavior. This study investigates the relationship between the socio-economic factors and high school students' delinquency in Abadeh County. Method: Selection of variables was mostly based on the theories of social control as presented by scholars such as Gut Fredson and Travis Hirshi. The research is quantitative and uses survey method. The sample under study consists of about 500 male and female students were randomly selected. The related data was collected by self report questionnaires. By using SPSS package and inferential statistics, 16 hypotheses are tested. Findings: Using one-way analysis of variances and multiple regression techniques for explaining the data, the findings show that attachment to friends, religiosity and mass media use on the whole can explain 31 percent of variations of Juvenile delinquency in Abadeh County. Results: The findings demonstrate that as friend ties become stronger and attachment to friend's increases, severity of acts of delinquency increase also religious beliefs prevent delinquency and reinforcement of religiosity identity can decreases delinquency rates. Also, reducing the aggressive content of mass media programs decreases delinquent acts in youth.

  Introduction: Poverty, as one of the initiatory social disorder, is as old as the history of mankind. It can say that many of the social problems of human are as direct result of poverty. Due to its antiquity, it has so deeply penetrated in different societies, and created its own culture among the poor. As an important part of rural development programs some strategies have been allocated to reduction of poverty, such goals can't be achieved without the cognition the culture of poverty. Hence, we decided to recognize the culture of poverty among villagers, and thus the rural part of Harsin Township was chosen to the study for this phenomenon.

 Method: The research Method was qualitative by using Snow Boll Sampling method for collecting data which analyzed by Grounded Theory. Deep interview and direct observation were data collection instruments.

 Findings: This study has indicated that it’s a controversy in life styles and methods of peripheral problems in poor villagers it reveals a type of culture which is called culture of poverty.

 Results: According to the findings of this study, the culture of poverty among the poor of Harsin is following by: lack of self-respect and family suspicion and pessimism determinism inherited poverty social isolation spatial and location isolation unfavorable economic situation and lack of social participation. The results were presented for the samples and hereby its validation confirmed in Harsin.

Introduction: Desirable transition of contemporary society of Iran from traditional to modern order requires political participation of citizens. To achieve this participation, important prerequisites including social capital are required. In this  regard, social capital is an important factor which determination of its role andeffects on political participation and  activating its potential force  are being considered in scientific communities recently.   Recognition of social capital is important to provide political participation and to facilitate political development and promotion of democracy. Therefore, it has been assumed that social capital increases individuals’ potential of political action and increases the probability of their political engagement.  Accordingly, present research examines the relation between social capital and political participation among citizens applying Robert Putnam’s theory.  

Method: Using a mixture of multi-stages cluster, systematic random and simple random sampling methods,  383 citizens aged 18-65 years old at city of Qom  participated in this survey study. 

Findings: There  was a positive relation between all components of social capital and political participation among Qom citizens. Although according to results of the multiple regression analysis, out of four predictor variables including social trust, social integration, knowledge and informal social participation, only two variables of knowledge and informal social participation had direct effect on political participation giving more weight to knowledge.  However, results of the path analysis showed that all of these four variables had affected  political participation of Qom citizens  directly, indirectly and  simultaneously (both direct and indirect). Knowledge, informal social participation, social trust and social solidarity had the most influence respectively. Therefore, citizens  with higher political participation are those who have more knowledge, social trust, informal social participation and show more consistency with values and norms of the society.       

Discussion: Although knowledge, social trust, informal social participation and social integration had effects on citizens’ political participation  directly and indirectly,knowledge is the central part of social capital that increases citizens’ political participation while strengthening its other elements. In addition,  considering mutual relations among elements of social capital, strengthening knowledge can positively influence other components of social capital such as social integration, social trust (especially institutional trust) and informal social participation. In fact, whatever knowledge element be more qualified, on-time and practical in public spheres (social-political), it will resulted to rising of citizens’ political participation at higher and more levels.