Abstract:
In the era of globalization, the development of modern institutions has created fears and hopes for social actors on a global scale and regional. Because, according to the views of scholars such as Giddens, psychological sense of meaninglessness, anxiety, depression, stress, choices, ontological insecurity, etc. are unintended consequences of modernity. In the situation of postmodernism, some of the social actors to exit the challenges of late modernity and overcome the pressure and feeling of meaninglessness rather than follow over the religious values and maximum capacity of meaning-making religion in all fields, the they is sometimes superstitious scientism (the action is inherently illogical and inconsistent with religious teachings). Academic Human as well as other social actors are not excluded from it. Thus, present study aims to understanding the lived experience of superstitions among M.A. female students of Tabriz University through establishing qualitative methodology and phenomenological approach. Statistical society of present study is M.A. female students of Tabriz University who referred to soothsayer at least two times from 2015 to 2016. Interviews conducted via In-depth and semi-structured approach. Interviews has continued till reaching theoretical saturation from researcher’s perspective. Research validity measured by author regarding to time and location of study and with minimum value interface. After collecting the data, interviews’ transcripts have been studied. And after repeated reviews data was encoded and categorized. The results of present study suggested that the phenomenon of superstition leads to negative mental consequences such as Fatalism, intellectual dependence and negative impact on the minds of respondents. Also, in this study, among the affecting variables on superstitions disability in solving problem, family background (learned experience), prevailing patriarchal system in the society and Anomie could be mentioned. And at the end of study resultant of effective variables obtained for tendency to superstitions of conditional matrix of mental stupefaction. .
Machine summary:
Unfortunately, we must know what factors have caused master's students, who are the elites of society, to resort to superstition to solve their problems; because the reference of this educated class to fortune-telling and Referring to fortune-tellers and spellcasters is a clear example of the lack of rationality in society and creates a ground for social harm.
Based on this, the main goal of the present research is to understand the lived experience of superstition (coffee fortune-telling, card fortune-telling, spellcasting) of female master's students at the University of Tabriz (a qualitative study).
This approach, in explaining social events, believes that events and incidents are the sum of the actions of individuals who act based on rational calculations; This means that magic and other rituals that may be considered superstition from some perspectives are considered experimental and rational techniques to achieve a goal; Therefore, if we encounter unfamiliar or unknown actions, rituals, or customs, we should not fall into misunderstanding and value judgment when trying to understand and perceive them; Because the practitioners of these tricks pay attention to only one thing: their effectiveness or ineffectiveness.
The results of in-depth interviews show that social conditions of the society, including the dominance of patriarchy in the social structure of the society, and the gap between goals and legal ways to achieve them in the society are effective factors in the tendency of women, especially master's students, to refer to fortune-telling.
The results of the present research, based on the analysis of interview findings, indicate that various social factors are effective in the tendency of female students at the master's level at the University of Tabriz.
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