The Impact of Religiosity on Membership in Charitable Social Networks

Today, people are on the one hand under the impact of their respective societie's religious culture, and on the other exposed to the modern world's structural components. A survey of transformations occurred in society and their impact on religiosity can illustrate both theachievements and failures of the existing programs in the field of religious issues. This study was done with the aim of assessing the relationship between religiosity and the degree of people's participation in charitable social networks. The method adopted was a survey of the statistical population of 18-year-old and above inhabitants of Tehransmunicipal Division 14. These were selected according to one-stage cluster design in random. Due to extensive theories in the sociology of religion, a compilation of the views of Weber, Inglehart, Berger and Lukman was used for explaining the issue and a standard questionnaire was also adopted for collecting the data. Data analysis was done according to statistical tests. The religiosity variable was examined in four different ritual, experimental, consequential and ideologicaldimensions; and the groundwork variables were considered from thepoint of view of age, education, and marital status. The research resultsindicate a correlation with a high percentage of probability between independent variables and the degree of people's membership in charitable social networks.