POL111H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Post-Materialism, Liberal Democracy, Social Capital
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Almond and verba found the source of a stable democracy in what they called a civic culture. Civic culture: in a civic culture, many citizens are active in politics but a passive minority serves to stabilize the system, preventing it from overheating. Further, participants are not so involved as to refuse to accept decisions with which they disagree. 1) its focus on the national level often led to vague conceptions of national culture and blinded researchers to the importance of subcultures of race and class; and. Social capital refers to a culture of trust and cooperation, which makes collective action possible and effective. As putnam (2002) writes, it is the ability of a community to develop the i into the we . A political culture with a fund of social capital enables a community to build political intuitions capable of solving collective problems: define postmaterialism.
