An Investigation into the Relationship between Social Class and Individual Modernism in Yazd

علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد

Article 2, Volume 11, Issue 1 - Serial Number 23, September 2014, Pages 27-52   

Document Type: Scientific-Research

DOI: 10.22067/jss.v11i1.6313

Author

Seyed Alireza Afshani^*

Yazd University

Abstract

The present study investigates the relationship between people’s social class and their attitudes toward modernism. This paper is based on a survey research which carried out among a sample of 249 of the 15-year old citizens of Yazd. Based on the definitions given for modernism, in general, most theorists considered 8 components as the main components of modernism. The findings of the study show that there is a significant and direct relationship between utilitarianism, democratic approach, scientific orientation, liberalism, and rationalism, on the one hand,and social class, on the other hand; whereas, individualism, consumerism and criticism did not have a significant relationship with social class.

Keywords

Social Class; Modernism; Attitude; Yazd