Investigating the Effect of Cultural and Economic Capital on the Political Culture of Shiraz’s Citizens (with an Emphasis on a Comparative Study of the Individuals Born before and after 1980s)

One of the prerequisites influencing the transition to democracy is the political culture which is a very important indicator. According to some thinkers, political culture is a function of conditions, including economic, social, and cultural supports. The present study deals with such presumption as the effectiveness of the cultural-economic capital in the political culture’s enhancement in Shiraz. The study method and the data collection method are respectively exploratory and survey. Use has been made of multistep cluster sampling herein. The survey was conducted on 382 individuals who had been born before the 1980s and 382 individuals who had been born after the 1980s. the study instrument is SPSS Software. The study findings and results indicated that there is a significant relationship between the cultural capital and economic capital of the two generations. Moreover, various types of political culture significantly differ between the two generations. Furthermore, there was found a negative and significant difference between cultural-economic capital and limited and subordinate political culture amongst the two generations. On the other hand, the corroboration of the cultural-economic capital brings about growth and blossoming in the participatory political culture between the two generations as evidenced in the hypotheses tests.