An Analysis of the Cultural Identity of the Female Dormitory Students A comparative study of the public and private dorms in Tehran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate professor, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Master of Cultural Studies, Science & Culture University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Identity is an important issue that can represent the existing situation of a society in both social and cultural aspects. One source of the identity changes, especially in its cultural aspect, is the experience of living in new environments. This is valid for the young girls who enter the metropolis of Tehran and the dormitories to continue their educations. This study is conducted to examine the cultural identity of the girl living in dormitories with a phenomenological approach. The studied girls  were chosen from the female residents of dormitories in Tehran city using theoretical sampling method (determining sample structure in advance) and by considering two factors: the dormitory type and the level of religiosity, elements which their impact on the subject matter of the study was confirmed in earlier  studies. We studied the cultural Identity through its familial, religious, gender and dorm-related components.Had  more coherent identities and faced fewer identity challenges,while the non-religious girls had stronger familial identities. and felt that they  belong less to the dorm. They were more inclined to associate with modern gender identities. And in general possessed less coherent

 
identities.The  religious girls showed weaker sense of  belonging to their dorms. The non-religious girls, most of whom had more powerful familial identities, considered their dorm co-residents unreliable and unsuitable persons to associate with. These girls had a critical approach to the traditional sources of identity and were trying to develop an identity beyond the dominant values-an identity which was closer to the prevalent values of western modernity.

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