Study of resistance towards accepting the official norms of the Iranian society (case study: students of Tehran Azad University over 2020-2021)

Subject Areas : Social Researches

Mona Robati ¹ , Majid Radfar ² , ALI MAlek pour ³

1 - Expert
2 - Department of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Roodehen Branch, Tehran, Iran
3 - Board of Islamic Azad University, Roodehen Branch

Received: 2022-07-31 Accepted : 2022-07-31 Published : 2022-07-23

Keywords: Students, Education, Gender, Marriage, resistance, acceptance of social norms,

Abstract :

The present study seeks to investigate the resistance towards accepting the official norms of the Iranian society among students of Tehran Azad University. The study is applied research in terms of the research objective and a descriptive study in terms of research path. The statistical population includes all students of Azad University, Central Tehran branch, among whom 384 people were selected as the sample through systematic random sampling and answered the researcher-made questionnaire. The questionnaire was made up of 77 items. The raw data obtained from the research questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS26 software, independent t-test, and one-way ANOVA. Results of the independent t-test indicated that gender influences the resistance towards accepting the norms of society, and men are more resistant to accepting the norms compared to women. Results of one-way ANOVA revealed that various age groups perform differently in terms of accepting the norms, and older people are less inclined to resist the norms. It was also found that academic degree plays no part in the acceptance of or resistance towards the norms of the community; however, it was revealed from the indicators that those with lower academic degrees are more resistant towards accepting family rules and norms, and have a higher tendency to take part in nightly parties and gatherings. It was also found in the description of means that the level of participants' disregard for the rules of the society in terms of tendency to participate in nightly parties and gatherings was low. On the other hand, it was revealed that participants had a moderate level of disregard for the rules and norms of the society in terms of friendship and relationship with the opposite sex and the rules on clothing. Overall, the resistance towards the norms of the society was revealed to be low.