The role of modern social media on the representation of religion among teenage girls

Document Type : Scientific-Research Article

Authors

1 .دانشجوی دکتری جامعه شناسی ، واحد علوم و تحقیقات ، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران،ایران.

2 استادیار گروه جامعه شناسی،واحد شهر قدس،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی. تهران. ایران

3 استادیارگروه جامعه شناسی،واحد گرمسار،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی،گرمسار.ایران

Abstract

Religion is considered to be one of the few institutions that has shaped a valuable part of human life and has had an impact on the way and form of human life. In the field of Shia jurisprudence, religion is considered as a group of beliefs, morals, jurisprudence and legal rules that have been determined by God in order to guide and save man.

The purpose of the present study is to sociologically investigate the role of modern social media on the representation of religion among girls aged 14 to 18 in Khoramabad city. The current research method is qualitative. The statistical population included university specialists and experts as well as independent researchers in the field of religion and media with academic and related degrees (more than 100 people) and a group of teenage girls and young men of Khorramabad (more than 12,000 people) who were constantly using social networks. They especially used Instagram. The sample size (30 people) was chosen by the purposeful-judgmental sampling method. The results of this research in the form of data-based theory showed that as a result of the existence of some bases (8 categories), the effect of causal conditions (18 categories) and input conditions (3 categories), modern social media on the representation of religion in cognitive, consequential, belief, experiential and Rituals have an effect and provide the conditions for negating religion, rethinking religion, taking a reflective, pluralistic and relative attitude to religion and self-referential religiosity.

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