POLS-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sidney Verba, Ideal Type
9 Nov 2018
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Political culture: the attitudes people in the country share. "political culture", the word, came to be in 1956 by the scholar gabriel. "political attitude" or "orientations" and the "role of the self in that system". Sidney verba: "political cultural is a system of empirical beliefs, expressive symbols, and values which define the situation in which politics takes place". Cognitive orientations: knowledge of political actors, institutions, processes. Parochial participant: ideal type and something that is not there in reality, but is an idea: no cognitive, affective, and no evaluation, doesn"t do anything/care and does not participate. Subject culture: people do have knowledge (cognitive) and feelings (affective) but no participation: might have been denied participation or don"t care. Canada and the united states: canada is very egalitarian-like/collectivist, united states is much more about individualism, canada is much more multicultural, united states is a "melting pot", canadians are apologetic, americans are assertive/confident. Political socialization: another word for "political education".
