Women Social Discourses in Traditional and Modernistic Paradigm (A study of the women aged 18 to 40 in Shiraz)

The present paper seeks to evaluate the sociological differences among 400 women aged 18 to 40 years old living in Shiraz. The sample was selected through multi-stage random cluster sampling. The main question is whether or not there is a significant difference between traditionalist and modernist women aged 18 to 40 in Shiraz in terms of social capital, cultural capital, media consumption, religiosity, age and socioeconomic position. The descriptive finding is that the mean score of women inclination towards traditionalist discourses is % 67/1 and the mean score of their inclination towards modernist discourses is % 63/4. The results indicate that the scale of traditionalist women's social capital, religiosity and age is significantly more than that of their modernist counterparts. Conversely, modernist women's cultural capital and media consumption is significantly more than that of traditionalist women. No significant difference was detected between these two groups in terms of socioeconomic position.