The Analysis of the Attitude of Students of Islamic Azad University of Khorramabad toward Globalization Phenomenon in Terms of Religious Identity
Farzaneh Sajadpour, Ebrahim Jamali
Abstract
Globalization made today’s societies face different challenges. Various identity sources can analyze attitude
toward this phenomenon from different angles or disappeared against it and in its appeal goes down as an
accepted model or has manifested a strong identity and to seek its resolution of global integration. Students are
generally in the ranks of the youth population and given that the university is a place for thinking and science,
their approaches can be considered as a measure tool of reality. This study seeks to meet attitude of the students
in Azad Islamic university of Khorramabad with emphasis on different attitude toward groups of religious identity
and to achieve results, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. To find and categorize
students, first religiosity questionnaire of Khodayarifard et al (2011) was used and these questioners were
distributed among 370 students, by using quota sampling at different schools. According to the obtained results,
every person who was in a group of identity and center group was invited for interview sessions. 72 respondents
participated in 12 interviews and answered interview questions that were based on six dimensions of
globalization. These dimensions include: social dimension, economic, religious, cultural, education and
environmental dimensions of globalization. Given that three types of religious identity; receptive, passive and
rejecters of religious identities were identified in the study, responses to interviews revealed that each of these
types of approach are based on four policy-driven approaches, critical, and transnational fatalistic can be
different.
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