Abstract:
This investigation is about the cultural, social, and legal factors influencing on the amount of dowry. Hence, we used structuralism theory, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and reasonable selection, theory of mass society and media power and religiosity theory. Therefore, for this topic we examined cluster random sampling of the 384 married men and women of 18 to 35 years in Qom. The results of this study have shown that women with higher education and higher status have higher dowry. According to the results, dowry has different meanings between different ethnic groups. There is a significant relationship between family members, reference group, mass media and feeling of security, fear of the future, emulation, conformity, legal awareness, and religious quality, kinship, lodging and determining the amount of dowry. But there is no relationship between people experiencing divorce, native people, age at marriage and dowry.
Machine summary:
Factors Affecting the Amount of Dowry for Young Married Couples in Qom Leyla Yazdan Panah *1 Nayereh Omidi1 Hossein Hosseinitabar Karimi2 Received 28 June 2016; Accepted 24 March 2017 Abstract This investigation is about the cultural, social, and legal factors influencing on the amount of dowry.
There is a significant relationship between family members, reference group, mass media and feeling of security, fear of the future, emulation, conformity, legal awareness, and religious quality, kinship, lodging and determining the amount of dowry.
Dowry, Reference group, Mass media, Feeling of security, Fear of the future, Emulation, Conformity, Legal awareness, Religious quality Keywords: .
Specialists in the social sciences, especially sociologists and psychologists, have explored the various phenomena associated with this holy institution with specific aims in their studies using scientific techniques, such as the choice of the spouse, the marriage ceremony, the actions and individual reactions of the members, the impact of social culture and traditions on the role, responsibilities and interactions of the individual with others, ultimately the family and other social institutions (National Youth Report, 2003, 1).
The main variables include the amount of dowry, the impact of reference groups, the impact of mass media, the sense of security, fear of the future, social coercion, emulation, contemplation with the congregation, religious quality and the influence of parents.
In the tenth hypothesis, the test result shows that there is a significant relationship between the fear of the future and the degree of dowry, and the effect on women is more than that of men.