The Role of Intellectual Immunity in Confronting Idol Thought from the Perspective of Students at the University of Anbar | ||
| Al-Anbar University Journal For Humanities | ||
| Article 13, Volume 2018, Issue 4, December 2018, Pages 219-240 PDF (1.19 M) | ||
| DOI: 10.37653/juah.2018.172025 | ||
| Author | ||
| AbdulWahed Hameed Al-Kubaisi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Some of the Iraqi cities have passed through impressive crises. The basis of these crises is the hegemony over the mentality of some of the people in these communities. The results of this hegemony are displacement and destruction. However, the question to be raised is what pushed these people to adopt alien thoughts? One of the reason behind this situation might be the lack of enough intellectual immunity to stand against this perverse thought. Thus, these people adopted intellectual idolism and became imprisoned by a stagnant mentality that deters development, progress and dialogue. They are passing through darkness that destroyed them and their communities. In light of this, the study aims to measure the level of intellectual immunity and idol thought for the students at the University of Anbar. It attempts to answer the following question; Is there any relationship between intellectual immunity and idol thought? To address this question, the study adopts the analytical descriptive approach which quantitatively and qualitatively describes this phenomenon via collecting data and classifying them for analysis and finding relations among the different variables of the phenomenon in order to explain it. The study sample consists of 210 female and male students at the College of Education for Humanities and the College of Education for Pure Sciences. Two instrument have been used to measure the intellectual immunity and the idol thought. In addition, validity and reliability tests have been carried out using suitable statistical tools. The findings of the study indicate a medium level of intellectual immunity and no idolism thought among the study sample, whereby the mean was less than the average. There are no statistically significant differences in gender or field of specialization in immunity and idol thought. The reasons behind this can be attributed to the homogeneity of the conditions surrounding all participants in the study. There has been a correlative reverse relationship between immunity and idolism, i.e., the higher the intellectual immunity, the lower the idol thought. This finding is reasonable since ideas in the minds of people represent the main dynamo and the motive of all their activities and behaviors. The more these ideas are sound and based on scientific, rational and logical basis, the more the people become developed, creative and ready to sacrifice. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Educational Psychology; Intellectual Immunity; Extremism; university Students | ||
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