Political Affair in a Paradox of Absorption and Exclusion: A Qualitative Study on Youth Political Participation in Yazd City

The study is to explore the political participation and attendance among the young people in Yazd city. For this purpose, interviews were carried out using a qualitative method based on the interpretive approach. In the design of methodology, the ground theory was used, which was analyzed by Strauss and Corbin's objectivist approach. The target population of the study were youth in Yazd city who were selected by purposive sampling method and extracted information through in-depth interviews. According to the results, in addition to the causal conditions (lack of awareness and political opinion, feeling of inefficiency), contextual conditions (feeling of insecurity, propaganda pressure), and intervening conditions (stopping in private, refusing the party label), the emergence of the phenomenon of "quietness and political despair " that, the translation of the indifference of the targeted community towards political issues and activities, it has been a manifestation of the ignorance of structure and the demands of its perpetrators. This phenomenon has led to the selection of strategies (the separation of political action and attitudes, the passivity of protest), and eventually the consequences (the sense of disappointment and disability in the political area, cold participation in elections) have been among these young people.