Social and Cultural Factors Associated with Student Alienation (Case study: Kermanshah Azad University)

The term alienation which Raymond Williams calls it the most difficult vocabulary words, and has been proposed as one of the main concepts in sociology, psychology and social psychology, have been widely used in social science to explain the forms and types of actions and reactions used for events, facts about the psychological and social impose and is hardly associated with today social life. This study aimed to investigate the effect of social self-alienation among students of Islamic Azad University branch of Kermanshah with the survey method done, which number of 400 samples were analyzed. In order to answer the main question, this study is to analyze the relationship between variables such as use of foreign media, social participation, Social communication, economic statusand, gender, age as independent variables and social alienation as the dependent variable. The results suggest that, there is significant relationship between psychological use of foreign media, social participation, social communication, gender, age with social alienation. There is no relationship between economic statusand and age with social alienation.