Investigating the Impact of Religion, Ethnicity, Political Socialization and Mass Mobilization on Participation in Islamic Consultative Assembly Elections (Boyer-Ahmad and Dena Counties)

Participation is a public, social, and multidimensional process of accepting responsibility in your community. The purpose of this study is to study the sociological factors affecting the participation of the people of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces in the elections of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. Therefore, the effect of independent variables such as the role of religious affiliation, tribal affiliation, political socialization and mass mobilization on the participation of people in elections was examined. From a methodological point of view, this research has been compiled with a quantitative approach and a survey method, based on the use of questionnaire tools to collect data and opinions of respondents.The sample studied in this study is 384 men and women over the age of eighteen in Boyer-Ahmad and Dena counties in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces. Also, based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, it was found that the data of the mentioned variables do not have a normal distribution.  Therefore, Spearman rank correlation test was used to measure the correlation of independent and dependent variables. After calculating these coefficients with the help of software spss; It can be inferred that the greatest impact is related to the role of religious affiliation in participation in elections at the rate of 0.902, tribal affiliation 0.785, political socialization 783% and mass mobilization 577%, respectively.