Individual and Social Components of Social and Political Culture in Literature and Folklore in Sirjan

Folklore and literature of each country is a valuable treasure which can be found in ceremonies, customs, tradition, and individual and social attitudes. Social and political culture shows the type of people's attitude toward collective life, its requirements and the network relations at the individual level and human society. Moreover, its effects can be found in the smallest and largest life affairs. The aim of current research is to study the attitudes toward collective life and its related issues in literature and folklore of Sirjan. The research questions are related to the attitudes toward social power and life and its individual and social components in literature and folklore in Sirjan. Thus, this research has tried to answer these questions using content analysis of words, terms, phrases, proverbs, tales and the existing legends in dialect and folklore of Sirjan. The findings indicate that the positive and negative elements such as participation, self-determination, duality, concealment, social responsibility, appreciation, relationships, pragmatism, realism are considered as components related to the social and political culture in folklore and literature of Sirjan.