“An Investigation into the Factors of Inconsistency of Awareness and Ethical Action among Young People” (Case Study, the Youth of Isfahan)

The most important topics in the field of ethics are lack of adherence to moral knowledge among the people. In the meantime, young people, because a more clear distinction between action and awareness, they are on the focus of scholars, especially sociologists. The main question in this thesis is why young people, despite being aware of the moral act, behave on the contrary? It is attempted to mention all the setbacks creating gap between knowledge and ethical action and express scholars’ view points about the setbacks in this thesis, then the thesis study the reasons that prevent the youth from acting ethically in spite of ethical knowledge through a fieldwork and interviews with the youth. There are causes in the interviews that overlap each other or are rooted in other cause. But finally the thesis reaches two major causes; first is Lack of knowledge and second is the desire and enthusiasm. What more the difference in respondents of youth due to lack of knowledge of ethical practice is their age and sex.