Journal of Iranian Social Studies

Abstract This research aims to investigate the level of social trust and participation and their relationships with self-censorship among citizens of Yazd. The population of study includes all citizens of 15-years old and above in Yazd in 1397. The sample size was 384 and the cases were selected through a multi-stage cluster sampling method.  The data for this survey was collected using a questionnaire. The face validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were employed to examine the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. Findings indicate that self-censorship was moderate among citizens of Yazd and its relationship with two variables of social trust and participation was negative and significant. Social trust with a coefficient of -0.417 and participation with a coefficient of -0.235 had an inverse correlation with self-censorship. The structural equation model was examined by Amos software and the results indicate that the social trust and participation explanin 31 percent of changes of the self-censorship. Based on the results, the variables of social trust and participation are two effective variables in explaining and predicting self-censorship and therefore strengthening social trust and citizen’s participation will reduce their self-censorship.

Abstract Social commitment is one of the most important factors in creating social order and social stability in societies. It includes an emotional, cognitive and behavioral state that creates loyalty and commitment to individuals, rules, roles, norms and values. This article examines the relationship between social commitment and delinquency. For this purpose, 402 high school students of Yazd and Khorramabad of the academic year 2016-2017 were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The gathered data were analyzed using AMOS and SPSS. Results indicate that there is a negative and significant relationship between social commitment and delinquency. The results of regression analysis indicate that social commitment, moral annoyance and anomy have the most effect on explaining delinquency.

Abstract Since the beginning of human life on the earth, comfort, safety and security for one’s family have been a necessary. The security has a fundamental role in all spheres of the social life, including economy, religion, culture and politics. One of the greatest achievements of divine religions is to maintain human psychological security against the stresses and evil temptations; therefore religiousness could have a significant role in explaining the variances of social security in a society. The present paper examines relationships between religiosity and the sense of social security in the city of Yazd.Data was collected through a survey questionnaire administered in the face to face interview, with a sample of 246 respondents selected through the proportionate cluster sampling technique. The sense of social security was measured using a scale with 12 components including the sense of physical, financial, economic, job, moral, cultural, emotional, affective, belief-related, judicial, legal, and honor security. Religiosity is also measured in five dimensions of intellectual, belief, ritual, emotional and consequential. Results show a significant positive correlation between the degree of religiosity  and feeling of safety which is consistent with the ideas of authors such as Forum, Weber, Durkheim, Buzan, Parsons and Muslim theorists,. Therefore, spirituality and religiosity have significant role in explaining the safety feeling of individuals. Therefore, the optimum use of the capacities of religion can help to the formation of stable social security.