POLI 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Post-Materialism, Participatory Culture, Social Capital
5 Mar 2017
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Political science considers the concepts associated with its institutional elements, such as nations and states, but it also considers psychological elements such as culture. Culture refers to the pattern of beliefs, preferences and practices of a people, shaped by family, religion and politics. Political culture refers to the part of culture regarding government and politics. Political culture encompasses the attitudes, beliefs, values and norms that people have regarding government and politics. Political culture examines the psychological aspect of politics and covers how people think about politics and thus helps to explain differences in the practice of politics in different states. Political culture also includes ideology, which is the ideas about what government is and what it ought to be. There are three categories of political culture. Parochial culture- people hold negative views of government and participate little in the political system. Subject culture- people are more positively inclined towards government, but remain largely uninvolved.
