POL S101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: World Values Survey, Sidney Verba, Gabriel Almond

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S101
• Professor: Satish Joshi

Document Summary

Ch 5 political culture, political participation, and political socialization. The fundamental political values, beliefs, and orientations held within a political community. Examined through sample surveys, as well as literature, popular culture, symbols, myths, political institutions, constitution, and policies of a country. Political discourse: the language, meanings, and interpretations used in political life to discuss and make use of democracy, freedom, and equality. The french-speaking people of quebec and the aboriginal peoples of canada. Elite political culture: the values and beliefs of those most in uential in political life. Development (and globalization) may reduce the di erences in political culture. The clash between conservative and liberal views led to a synthesis in the form of socialism (louis harts 1964) Western european political cultures are diverse with conservative, liberal, and socialist perspectives. In colonized countries, only the leading part of the mother country"s political culture was carried to the new lands.