POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Political Action Committee, Opposition To United States Involvement In The Vietnam War, Corporatism
15 Apr 2016
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Poliical culture: aitudes, beliefs and norms that people have developed toward government and poliics. Psychological disposiion of individuals: aitudes toward the poliical system, aitudes toward the role of the self in the system, knowledge, feelings, and judgement. Poliical culture is acivated by-and inluences poliical aciviies: media, interest groups, corporaions and unions. Forms a central part of the poliical environment within which ciizens and poliical authoriies at all levels behave and paricipate. Poliical culture is what makes poliics diferent across countries and regions. Afected by: nature of poliical organizaion/type of government, geography, history, culture, language, religion and relaions with others. Fragment theory (hartz: colonial socieies as fragments of european socieies, american: liberal individualism, canadian: deference to authority and conservaism. Theory of formaive events (lipset: formaive events of a country help shape or mold values, revoluion vs. counter revoluion. Prism of immigraion (wiseman: country full of immigrants.
