A Sociological Study of Cultural Capital Relationship with Individual and Collective Social Identities among the Youth (A Case Study in Babolsar City)

This article attempts to study the relationship between cultural capital of the youth with their individual and collective social identities and to scrutinize the correlation between cultural capital and different types of identity. For studying these two constructs (cultural capital and individual and collective identities) Bourdieu, Jenkins and Giddens theories were consulted and for measuring relationship between these two constructs T-Test and Pearson correlation coefficient were used. The results show that there is a relation between the youth’s cultural capital and their social identity. The most relationship of cultural capital is with personal and group identity and the least relationship of cultural capital is with national, religious and family identity. On the other hand, the results show that girls’ tendency toward collective types of identity is higher than boys’ and boys’ tendency toward individual types of identity is higher than girls’. Finally, the results show that the rate of cultural capital for the youth is nearly equal.