Investigating the Barriers to Political Socialization of Cultural Women in Ahvaz

This study aimed to investigate the barriers to political socialization of cultural women by survey method.

The statistical population of cultural women in Ahvaz includes 8763 people and the sample size based on Cochran's formula is 368 people, which have been determined as a sample and have been studied using multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. Face validity was used to determine the validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach's alpha was used to determine its reliability. The results of the research are presented in two descriptive and inferential parts through SPSS 18 software.

The research findings show that there is a significant relationship between women's political socialization and gender socialization variables, value preferences, political self-confidence, and power structure in the paternal family. The correlation coefficients between them are 0.138, 0.440, 0.158, and -0.184, respectively, and their significance levels are 0.05, 0.01, 0.01 and 0.01, respectively.

We conclude that different gender socialization of women, value preferences, women's self-confidence, and power structure in the paternal family are among the barriers to political socialization.