Economics, Sociology, Politics and Religion: Success of Marketing Students
A study was performed to determine the factors that contribute to one’s spirituality and religiosity and later the affect spirituality and religiosity had on academic performance. The results indicate that students with a higher charitable involvement have higher spirituality and religiosity factors. My experiences and involvement with my local church and youth group has shown that religion revolves around a philosophy of being kind and hospitable to others. No surprise there, people who are by definition religious are willing to be charitable. But I do not see any effect on spirituality. Religiosity is defined by a person’s adherence to a religions rules and practices, however spirituality truly believes in a higher being and not just following a religion’s practices. So by simply showing up at a soup kitchen make you more spiritual? This author does not think so. To truly make yourself more spiritual you need to put yourself out and find examples of a higher being. This author went on two mission trips with his church and repaired battered homes of needy people. After talking to my resident of one of the project houses I was working on, I truly believed that there is a higher being. That I was put on this earth to achieve something and it’s all part of a bigger plan. My resident wrote me a note stating that I changed her life and her perspective of society. If I die today, I will still have lived a fulfilled life, because I feel my purpose in life is to make a change in someone else’s. The study goes on to explain how there is a negative correlation between professional ambition and spirituality and I can completely agree. If someone’s outlook on life is that of professional ambition, they feel that their purpose in life is to make money while the opposite is true for spirituality, the purpose of life is to be determined by a higher being. The results may be skewed because the research pool included only business students.
Even though this was published in the Atlantic Economic Journal, I find it much different than those scholarly articles such as “Exploring the potential effects Emoticons.” The latter included factual and statistical data to support the study’s conclusion, while the former mentioned a formal research plan and talent pool but had no statistical, no mathematical proof of the author’s conclusions. This article was great for promoting questions and ideas about a research topic but not for answering specific questions. The former is most likely going to influence my topic for project 2, while the actual scholarly article covers all my questions and ambiguities.
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