POLITICAL CULTURE AND SOCIALIZAZATION

I. Introduction:  Political Behavior

A. Questions
B.  Defining Political Culture

II. Agents of Political Socialization

A.  Definition
B.  Five Agents
        1. Family
        2. Education
        3. Peer Groups
        4. The media and culture
        5. Business and Professional Associations, the Military, Labor Unions, and Religious Groups

III.  Classifying Political Culture

A.  Background
B.  Democratic Political Culture
C.  Authoritarian Political Culture
D.  Parochial, Subject, and Participant Culture
        1.  Parochial
        2.  Subject
        3.  Participant Culture
        4.  A Mix
E.  Consensual and Conflictual Cultures
        1.  Consensual Cultures
        2.  Conflictual Cultures
        3.  Heterogeneous Societies and Consensual Culture

IV.  The Evolution of Political Cultures

A.  Political Culture and Change
B.  Political Resocialization
C.  Postmaterialism and Cultural Change
        1.  Materialists
        2.  Postmaterialists
        3.  Ramifications

V.  Final Thoughts