understanding of non-religious students lived experience of exclusion and acceptance (case study: m.a students of social sciences, university of tehran and allameh tabatabaei university)

the main objective of this research is to understanding how and why some student are non-religiousness. for this purpose the life-world of these students is examined and the theories of burger and habermas are used as the theorical framework. the methodological approach of this investigation is qualitative; therefore, to collect data, the interview techniques of semi structure, the episodic and the observation techniques have been used; and the method of fundamental theory has been used for the data analysis. the sample of this investigation includes 23 students of social sciences in the higher education. the results indicate that the conditions set have created the initial spark of change in the opinions. these changes are enhanced in view of two experiences of tolerance and exclusion. hence, non-religious people try to adopt such strategies as resignation, forced tolerance, retaliation etc. in addition, the consequences of being non-religious include frustration, feeling of being excluded and deprived, violence, self -beating, labeling, self-censoring etc., can be named from the consequences of   non-religious