The trend toward extremism and its relationship to forms of social awareness among university students

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الإصدار التالي: 06 سبتمبر 2025
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The trend toward extremism and its relationship to forms of social awareness among university students

Abdulhaleem Raheem Ali
Abstract

This study aime to track forms of social awareness among students at Baghdad University, in addition to the significance of differences in forms of social awareness among students at Baghdad University according to gender, specialization, and academic stage .Emile Dour Kayem (1976) defined the tendency toward extremism as an individual taking a position characterized by extremism, deviating from moderation, departing from the norm, and transgressing the intellectual and behavioral standards and moral values defined and established by members of society. Meanwhile, Shaldan (2006) defined awareness as a state of mind in which a person perceives the world around them, and defined it as a person's perception and understanding of themselves, their external world, and their social belonging as a result of contemplating the objective world, work, and social action. Awareness is linked to behavior because it leads to practical individual and collective positions. Language also plays an important role in awareness.The researcher adopted Emile Du Keim Scale (1976) for forms of social awareness. the psychometric characteristics of both scales and performed on 400 university students, and the results show tendency toward extremism according to the gender variable and academic stage , there is no statistically significant difference in forms of social awareness according to the variables of gender and specialization, the study concluded that there is a statistically significant inverse correlation between the tendency toward extremism and forms of social awareness, and the research finally reached a set of recommendations related to the results of the study.

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