The Paradox of Social Identity and Changing Values of the Young Males in Urban and Rural Areas of Democratic Bangladesh

A Social Identity is a manifestation of an array of shared values and the reflection of the social life of the people of a particular society. Any socially expressed value in the everyday reality, on the other hand, is the eventuality of a composite of several socio-cultural and political elements only rather apprehensively conjoined. Identity and values are formed in accordance with the social settings of the people that they are a part. Hence, in different social settings, the prevalent values ought to be different. This study concentrates to the values that are difficult to eliminate from the daily lives of the people of Bangladesh. It is concerned with the situation in which different values of the same issue arise and cover the areas like, believe in magic, sexuality, and gender issue. Based on a survey of three hundred and ninetytwo (392) male adolescents of urban and rural areas, the study arrives at a conclusion that there are differences in social values in regard to the social settings where it is formed.