POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Socioeconomic Status, American Gas Association, Corporatism
9 May 2016
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Parochial: citizens feel that they are removed from politics: no influence over decision-making. Subject: citizens subject to decisions without consultation: citizens may be informed, but do not play active roles. Participant: citizens play an active role in politics: constant and dynamic relationship with political authorities. Formative events of a country help shape or mold values. Theory of formative events (lipset: revolution vs. counter revolution. Prism of immigration (wiseman: country full of immigrants. Fragment theory (hartz: colonial societies as fragments of european societies, american: liberal individualism, canadian: deference to authority and conservatism. Process through which individuals are educated and assimilated into the political culture of a community: both formal and informal, role of the education system. Peer groups: geography, religion, media, use of symbols to further socialization is essential, create and nurture loyalty, social cohesion and obedience, not a new practice, can be overt or subtle, both visual and non visual. Socialization that permeates society and if often unnoticed or unquestioned.
