Sociological Explanation of the Impact of Political Culture of Citizens of Ahvaz Metropolis Based on the Cultural Components of Ethnicity and Traditionalism

The present study aims to Sociological explanation of political culture and the components of ethnocentrism and traditionalism affecting it in the metropolis of Ahwaz. The data of this study were collected by survey method from a sample of 384 people who were selected from a population of 781091 citizens aged 18 to 65 years living in the metropolis of Ahwaz by stratified random sampling. The dependent variable (political culture) became operational with three dimensions of political values, political attitudes and political knowledge and its relation to independent variables, including ethnocentrism and traditionalism, which are a combination of the theories of Inglehart, Elazar, Habermas, and Almond Verba; Hypotheses were made and tested. The data collection tool in this study is a questionnaire whose reliability was estimated through Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the data were analyzed using SPSS26 and AMOS software at both descriptive and inferential levels. Findings showed that between the two variables of ethnocentrism and traditionalism, the variable of traditionalism has a positive relationship with political culture and ethnocentrism has a significant negative relationship with political culture. Also, regarding the relationship between ethnicity and traditionalism and the dimensions of political culture, it was found that ethnocentrism has a significant positive relationship with political values and a significant negative relationship with political attitudes and political knowledge. Traditionalism also has a significant positive relationship with political values and a significant negative relationship with political attitudes, but traditionalism has no significant relationship with political knowledge.