POLITICAL SCIENCE Chapter POLITICAL CULTURE: Political_Culture

• School: University of Calicut
• Department: Humanities
• Course: POLITICAL SCIENCE

Document Summary

Political culture is composed of the set of the attitudes, beliefs and values of society that relates to the political system and to the political issues". It means, those values and emotions that gives meaning to politics. The term political culture has been popularized by american political thinkers like. This concept is often used to distinguish one system from the other structurally and culturally. The success of a political system depends on the people"s attitudes, values and orientations about a particular system. The components of political system are: cognitive orientations. In this type of political culture people have knowledge about their political system consists of political parties, political leaders, government, interest groups and pressure groups, etc. They know how the total system is working but doesn"t have any personal attachment: affective orientations. Affective political culture implies the feelings of people towards their political system.