an investigation into the relationship between social class and individual modernism in yazd

the present study investigates the relationship between people’s social class and their attitudes toward modernism. this paper is based on a survey research which carried out among a sample of 249 of the 15-year old citizens of yazd. based on the definitions given for modernism, in general, most theorists considered 8 components as the main components of modernism. the findings of the study show that there is a significant and direct relationship between utilitarianism, democratic approach, scientific orientation, liberalism, and rationalism, on the one hand,and social class, on the other hand; whereas, individualism, consumerism and criticism did not have a significant relationship with social class.