Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Civil Society, Cascina Increa, Codependency
30 Aug 2018
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Political culture: the broad pattern of political orientations, opinion and values shared by a large group of people (nation, region, class, ethnic group) Associated with patterns of transmission between political system and political culture; across generations (but not all); if it"s strong some of it will be passed on. Democratic societies rest on a broad set of social values> accepted by majority of people who live there. Seminal in the study of political culture: french books 1830s; democracy in america; two volumes published between. Found least in canada : ^all present in any society to some degree. Historical interest (not popular because it only takes into account linguistic and cultural groups): Canada"s political culture focuses on con icts between english-french. New political cultures due to immigration that cannot be distilled down to english and french. Late 60s and 70s: horowitz and hearts; canada has political features; made up of 3 ideological fragments: liberalism, conservatism, socialism.
