A Study on the Generation Gap from the Religiosity Point of View(Two Generations of 50 s and 70 s)

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Mehri Bahar ^{1 *} , Sahar Rahmani ²

1 - Assistant Professor at Tehran University
2 - MA on the Youth Studies

Received: 2012-12-11 Accepted : 2012-12-11 Published : 2012-10-01

Keywords: religiosity, Generation Gap, Spirituality, Decades of 70 s and 90 s,

Abstract :

There are lots of differences among the youth these days. The youth of today are different from the previous generation due to religiosity. This paper tries to search on the generation gap of two ones of 70s and 90s generations. The research method was qualitative and four people from the first and four from the second generation were interviewed deeply. The results show that the second one had less tendency to different aspect of religiosity and there was seen a gap between two generations. The second one performanced less accompany with religious activities or to some degree they were against of religion through social aspect.