Religiosity and Modern Attitude among Seminary and University Women Students

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Shiraz

2 MA in Sociology,• University of Shiraz

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between religiosity and modern attitude among seminary and university students in .he city of Shiraz. This is a survey method research with the questionnaire as .s data gathering tool. The statistical society includes all women students of ...'niversity of Shiraz in three programs concluding with BA, MA, and PhD egrees. For women student of religious schools in Shiraz city during years of 2005-06, we chose to use stratified sampling, a sample which included 294 persons. Research results show that religiosity of seminary women students is very high compared to that of university students. On the other and, to compare modern attitude, the constructed scale between two groups shows that in all dimensions except two dimensions of universalism and cuizenship, university students have higher modern attitude. Finally, there is negative relationship between religiosity and modem attitude among all respondents, while such relationship is not a significant one among seminary vomen.

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