Family as the Main Actor in Political Socialization in Georgia

The family is the leading agent of political socialization throughout life, where established values, habits, and political ideas form the foundation of personal development. Through the family, individuals develop a sense of religious and ethnic identity, which rarely changes throughout life and plays an active role in the socialization process. Families, as primary and "permanent agents" of socialization, play different roles in different regimes and processes of social development.

In Georgian reality, the family is the foundation of state power, and the Orthodox Church, together with the ruling elite, strives in every way to protect (including through legislation) family traditions and values ​​shaped over centuries. This paper, drawing on R. Putnam's theory of "social capital," analyzes for the first time the role of "Georgian table culture" in the process of political socialization.