Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to
all our fellow classmates and miss Hana Imelda. inshaAllah we are going to
present on our research paper, a study on the relationship between family
income and religiosity among iium undergraduate students.
There have been numerous studies which
suggests that income affects the degree of one’s religiosity, with an
inclination that high incomes discourage religious participation by encouraging
individuals to substitute market work for religious activities (General Issue)A
survey done by Herzer and Strulik (2013) in the United States shows that there
is a co-integration relationship between family income and religious adherence
and “that a 1% increase in the log of income per capita is associated with a
decline in church attendance by about 9%.” The causation of income influencing
religious adherence plays a pivotal role in our daily life, since 84% of the
global population subscribe to a particular faith or religious group[1]
So Family income here we refer to money
income that includes dividends, earnings, interest, or anything shared by a
family and lives in the same standard while religiosity is defined as a number
of dimensions associated with religious beliefs and involvement
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Theory? A theory suggests that Income has an adverse
impact on one's level of religiosity
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So the Lesser income actually leads to a higher degree of
religiosity
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And Higher income, leads to a lesser degree of religiosity
with
the supporting literature of The pioneer works of Azzi and Ehrenberg (1975) discovered
the casual relationship that a high wage rate decreases church membership,
insinuating the inclination of individuals to substitute their time for the
pursuit of market activities instead of religious activities when the
opportunity costs of the latter is higher. In that regard, Jody W. Lipford and
Robert D. Tollison (2002) argued that an expansion of income deters religious
participation by “inducing a substitution between market-earnings and religious
activities”. This is attributed to the high opportunity costs of religious
activities which reduces the time and effort available for monetary purposes.
Additionally, they contend that religious objectives “can only be achieved with
financial support”, implying that the latter is a precursor for the attainment
of religious aims.
The
previous studies are mostly based on western point of view and focused on
individual income, also there are varying metrics of measurement for
religiosity, and the degree of influence varies with the ideological basis and
context of different religion, as well as the classification of income as
self-motivated, so that is why we engage in this research because we want to
know the relationship between two variables through Islamic point of view as
well as using family income since students generally do not hold full time jobs
and out target are students of iium from various nationalities and family
background
Therefore
in this research we seek to answer these questions. Firstly whether family
income affects religiosity of iium students? And if yes, does it bring positive
or negative impact?
So My teammate ahmad tarmizi will
continue on research methodology as well as the findings. Thank you
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and that's my presentation script for English for Academic Purpose module, during my 3rd year in IIUM 2015 along with my team mates Aziz and Tarmizi. Ms Hana Imelda was very kind to assist us all in making literature review an interesting and doable task. May Allah grant her the highest Jannah.
#imissstudying
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[1] Data extracted from Pew Research Center in an article titled “The
Global Religious Landscape”, published on December 18, 2012.
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