POLI 4039 Lecture : POLI 4039 Notes
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Political culture: emphasis on the individual: 1. ) American example: dominant culture of politics, it changes, emphasis on individual stuff over community (mansions, cars, etc. ) Alexis de tocqueville-government set up with locknean liberalism that it focuses predominantly on the individual over community: a. ) Causes: immigration patterns: people who settled and dominated had the pioneer spirit. Most were criminals willing to take adventures: unlimited resources: allowed for ample supply to create the individual/self behavior, isolated geography: wars broke out all the time in europe. Territory is isolated form the rest of the world: b. ) Characteristics: history out on a lark , obsession with freedom, c. ) change, civil war, various social movements, two world wars: now involved with the rest of the world, 9/11: we"re now vulnerable, 2. ) We still think of ourselves as unique similar to the. American example, a political animal that is different from the south and rest of the country: a. )
