Social Identity and its Role in Forming Political Affiliation (A Study in a Village in Sohag Governorate).

The research aims at penetrating the entity of one of the villages of Sohag governorate, the village of Al-Sawamea Sharq, located in the center of the city of Akhmim, which is among the tribal areas in Upper Egypt, through their expressions reached through the direct interview with them. An interview manual was used on a random sample of eligible voters, 18-year-olds of political age, from the governorate of Sohag. The sample size is 8 cases, and from this theoretical point of view we will try to analyze the texts of the respondents from the research community through which they express their identity and their impact on the political affiliation and how their political participation and their attempts to express their social existence. Questions have arisen as to the question of How the social identity constitutes the political affiliation of the research community? Several secondary questions have emerged from this question:
- How does social identity form electoral choices?
- How does social identity form party affiliation?
- How does social identity form the vision for the political future?
This research is important and effective by combining a semi-integrated vision and research material that allows the understanding and interpretation of the social world of the research community, as its members are in a state of control by social groups that control the quality of political participation and political affiliation.

The most important research results :

(1) Social identity constitutes political affiliation through its control over electoral choices, where family members agree on political participation in a particular direction. The main objective of political action is to "preserve the glory of his family" and preserve its identity.
(2) Social identity constitutes political affiliation through its control of party affiliation, where membership of the parties is closely related to the family entity that determines the possibility of joining the party or not. There was a positive vision of the importance of party work, but the reality of the situation shows that the family exerted pressures of a motivational nature through which the family spirit and the family members are informed that they share a common identity.

(3) Social identity is the vision towards the political future through the encouragement of political participation from a social point of view, and the social identity is the view of the political future from the orientation of political interests. Where most of the respondents considered themselves as having no role and no role in making any changes and thus politically driven to a field where they had no choice.