Investigating the Impact of Ethnic Cultural Values on Political and Economic Attitudes (Case Study of Golestan Province)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Sociology Department

2 Philosophy Group

3 Assistant Professor Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of ethnic cultural values ​​on the political and economic attitudes of ethnic groups living in Golestan province. Cultural values ​​as an independent variable and political and economic attitudes as a dependent variable. The present study in terms of purpose; Applied, in terms of method; Descriptive-analytical and in terms of data collection; It is a kind of field research. The statistical population includes 1868819 people from Golestan province, which was obtained based on the 2016 census. According to the Cochran's formula, 384 people were selected according to the stratified random method. Schwartz (2006) standard questionnaires and researcher-made political and economic attitudes were used to collect data, the validity and reliability of which were confirmed. The variables were analyzed by regression and the data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed by SPSS 26 26 software. The results of examining the research hypotheses showed that: 1- Cultural values ​​affect the political attitude of ethnic groups 2- Cultural values ​​affect the economic attitude of ethnic groups.

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