The Relationship between Religious Socialization and Student's Religiosity: a Case Study of the Humanitie's Students, Guilan University

In every country, the institutionalization of religious values is influenced by the institutional factors of socialization. The process of internalizing values and religious beliefs is called "religious socialization". Family, school, friends, the clerics, religious people and the mass media are among the most important factors in socialization. This study examines the relationship between religious socialization and religiosity of the survey respondents. The main question is about the most important factor in the religious socialization of people, especially the youth. The statistical population includes Guilan University students, 384 of whom were chosen as the sample. The theoretical approach to this research is a combination of the theory of interaction and functionalism. The results show that the most important factors of socialization are the mass media, the clerics, religious people and friends respectively. Compared with the other factors of socialization the two of the factors of socialization i.e. family and school have somehow lost their functions.