POL214Y1 Lecture : POL214-jan.23.docx
30 Mar 2012
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Through survey research across five different countries, they look at what people know about political system, leader, their evaluation and feelings about them. The concept is very old, goes back to ancient greek historian aristotle and plato compared leaders, cities, societies, this was a form of political culture. In 19th c a lot of canadians talked about canadian spirit which is another term for the political culture. Culture changes happen very slowly, but opinions change faster. Culture is more solid and stable than opinion, it persists, we have cultural symbols in canadian culture, ie. maple leaf. Flag, beaver, charter, hockey etc some of these symbols awoke unity and consent. A person can have ideology but is a part of culture is grouped shared, phenomenon. There are also sub-cultures; culture within culture i. e italian-canadian political culture. Culture is transmitted from one generation to another.
