The Examination of the Effect of Attitudal Variables on the Relationship Between Tribal and National identity in the Nourabad Mammassani City

This essay studies the attitudal factors affecting on relationship between tribal and national identity of family chiefs in Nourabad Mammassani city. In other words, what attitudes have the most impacts on the collective biases of the family chiefs in this town as holders of Luri identity. We used Alexander,s approach of cultural sociology as reaserch frame. In this approach, against classical theories ,culture is considered as an "independent", not as a "dependent" or "soft" variable. Chief attitudal variables in this essay are rationality; trusting, open social relationship, and straightforward. Data analysis was done by both bivariate and multivariate procedure and path analysis in which the following results were obtained: all of the variable, except social trust, had positive direct and negative indirect relationship with national identity and tribal identity respectively. Besides, the correlation of rational motive with tribal identity wasn,t significant, and national and tribal identity are negatively correlated to each other. Finally, 58 percent of the variance of the nationalistic tendencies in the observed statical society was explained by all of the variables.