Qualitative studies Generation Gap among girls (case study: Kermanshah city)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mehran Sohrabzade ¹
• Leila Parnian
• Mohsen Niazi ²
• Bijhan Khajenouri ³
• Satar Sadeghidehcheshme ²

¹ DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF LITERATURE AND HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN

² department of sociology, faculty of literature and humanities, university of kashan

³ department of sociology, faculty of literature and humanities, university of shiraz

Abstract

This article aims to study the causes, strategies and consequences of Generation Gap among girls. This research using qualitative methods, data-driven approach to theorizing (grounded theory) and a semi-structured interview technique was interactive. The population of the study included girls, living in the city of Kermanshah. Using purposeful and theoretical sampling, 57 girls who were involved in Generation Gap were interviewed. The results showed that Generation Gap among respondent’s factors include: agency, Risk-oriented, self reference, Consumerism, Narcissism, Gender conflict and liquid intimacy. Two factors (Family disorganization and Prolongation of stay in the family) as well as the underlying cause (College education, Orientation friend and the use of new information technologies and communications) are intervening factors in Generation Gap. Strategy girls in the Generation Gap: Resistance, revolt and modification. According to the study, Generation Gap, consequences such as the Convergence value, Partial obstruction, committed to social anomalies and hot isolation and discrediting are the probable results of this gap.

Keywords

• politics life
• choice
• liquidity
• self reference
• Generation Gap
• Liquid era of modernity

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