Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Jamal Adhami ¹
• Yaghoub Ahmadi ²
• Ebrahim Jafari ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch

² Associate Professor of Sociology, Payame Noor University

³ M. A. of Sociology, Ashtian Islamic Azad University

Abstract

This paper studies the Intergenerational value preferences in Sanandaj and measures its effective social factors. Sanandaj city is one of the cities that because of some aspects like the center of Kurdistan province, extension of urbanism, irregular emigration, marginalization, youth population, ingredients of coexistence from the native and nonnative and modern and traditional culture, vicinity with border cities, the modernity of mass media, makes extent changes. To do so, appropriate framework was prepared based on Durkheim, Merton, Mannheim, Giddens, Inglehart, Bourdieu and Schwartz in which the basic assumptions are discussed and tested. The research was conducted based on multiple research methods (survey and documentation methods) and multiple clustered sampling on 367 people in three generation. Findings shows that there is no significant difference between young people and middle –aged , but there is a significant difference between old generation and young people and middle- aged and old generation regarding the value preference. Also The results showed there is a correlation between social capital and religious with value preference in two generations (young and middle-aged)and between the cultural capital and value preference in young generation and there is a no significant correlation between all generations on economic capital and value preference.

Keywords

• value preferences
• Social Capital
• cultural capital
• economic capital
• religious
• Mass media

Main Subjects

• Sociology