Studying the Relationship between Religious Socialization and Political Socialization among the18-28-Year-Old Youth in Iran´s Central Province

Religious and political socialization is a stream by which religious and political culture or attitudes,visions, knowledge, information, and, in brief, religious and political values are transferred from one generationto another. The present research aimed at studying the relationship between religious socialization and politicalsocialization. The theoretical framework of the research is a combination of Glock and Stark´s theory ofreligiosity and Lucian Pye´s Theory. According to the former theory, the religious socialization includes“belief”, “practice”, “experience”, “knowledge”, and “consequences”. According to the later, politicalsocialization includes five dimensions of “political activity,” “political trust,” “political effectiveness,”“political interest,” “political tolerance” which may become realizable in later stages and under a basicsocialization, especially religious socialization. A survey method of descriptive-analytical type was used to dothe research and, the data were gathered using two methods of documentary- and library-based and survey bythe researcher-made questionnaire. The studied population included 384 individuals of 18-28-years old living inIran´s central province. Though, the rituals aspect – religious socialization, in particular – is on a lower levelthan the other aspects, the results showed the success of the youth religious socialization. In general, thepolitical socialization, and internalization of political values and norms among the youth are lower in degree incomparison with religious socialization. The results also show that there is a significant relationship between thedifferent dimensions of religious socialization and political socialization. The corrected coefficient ofdetermination shows that 35% of the changes in the dependent variable political socialization was determined bythe variables entered in the regression model.