The Study of Internal Factors Affecting Ethnic and National

• Main Authors: Abdolali Lahsaeizadeh, Aliasghar Moghadas, Seyde Mojtaba Taghavi Nassab
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: University of Isfahan 2009-04-01
• Series: جامعه شناسی کاربردی
• Subjects: Keywords: Ethnic Identity; National Identity; Arabs of Ahwaz.
• Online Access: http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/jas/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-31&slc_lang=en&sid=1

AbstractThe present paper aims at studying the internal factors affecting ethnic and national identityamong Arab people of Ahwaz using quantitative method and survey technique. The sample of thisstudy was 384 male and female Arabs aging 18 to 65 years old. In order to have a more precisestudy, a pretest questionnaire was given to 52 Arab people of Ahwaz. The final questionnaire wasgiven to the sample during autumn and winter of 2006. The theoretical framework of this study isbased on modernization, relative deprivation and internal exploitation theories. In this study, theeffect of age, sex, marital status, employment, family income, the rate of family ownership, relativedeprivation feeling in economic dimension, urban residence, neighborhood (Arab dominant ormixed),the rate of ethnic trust, abiding by ethnic norms, education, using media, satisfaction withpolitical system, participation in political issues and relative deprivation feeling in politicaldimension were measured by ethnic identity variable. Finally, the relationship between ethnicidentity variable and national identity variable was tested among samples. The result of bivariateanalysis (T test, variance analysis and simple regression) revealed that above mentioned variable -except 3 variables including sex, marital status and urban residence record - were significant. Ethnicidentity and national identity are significant negative relationship. The results of multivariateregression analysis revealed that 11 out of 16 independent variables affected ethnic identity whichfinaly explained 67 percent of ethnic identity variance.