A Lived experience of youth in the face of challenges of identity transition (qualitative study of young people from 20 to 30 years old of Isfahan city)

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Since Iranian society is passing from the traditional identity to the modern identity, the present study, using social interpretivism, studies the challenges that youth deal with in everyday life in terms of identity. Using the qualitative and the interview technique, we have tried to achieve a grounded theory.  Based on Theoretical sampling and the standard of theorical Saturation, 28 young people ranging20 to 30 year-old have been interviewed in the city of Isfahan. The findings include 21 categories. The main category of this survey is” Selectivity of Identity Elements” which includes other categories. According to this core category the most important findings of this research are the conflict between the young generation and the old generation and the double consciousness which has been represented in a paradigmic model.

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