The article presents a unified theoretical model, explaining differences in Christian and ‘alternative’ religiosity at individual and collective levels. The model reconstructs and integrates the most important theories explaining religiosity (deprivation, regulation, socialization, cultural production, and ethnicity) as complementary causal mechanisms in a rational-action based framework. It is...

The present study was conducted to investigate the factors influencing ethnic solidarity among young people (18-30 years) in the Azeri regions of Khalkhal. Theoretical framework was presented using the theories Emile Durkheim, Ted Robert Gurr, George Homans, Anthony Giddens and others. The research method was survey, face validity was used and reliability was obtained by Cronbach's alpha coeffi...

The fact that women are more religious than men is one of the most consistent findings in the sociology of religion. Miller and Stark (2002) propose that a gender difference in riskpreference of physiological origin might explain this phenomenon. While acknowledging the utility of their risk-preference mechanism, we believe that their assumption regarding the genesis of this difference is a pre...

This research studies the performing and Commitment of religious behavior and customs among high-school students and the effective factors involved in Zanjan. The research method is documenting and survey. For gathering data, we use questionnaire in the paper. The statistical methods applied here are Pearson coefficient correlation, and   multivariate variables as well. About 376 samples were...

environmental crisis is one of the most important global problems. dealing with this crisis as a collective effort requires formation of environmentalism attitudes among people. what is considerable in this field is to identify the factors affecting people’s attitudes towards environmentalism especially women. since, based on two main perspectives of ecofeminism; i.e. women's relationship ...