Political Culture and Political Socialisation

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Political Culture and Political Socialisation
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Culture .

• Remember we have mentioned .
• the nature of human being .
• what people believe .
• how people act .
• These are all about how people think, believe and
  act .

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Political culture is a broadly shared set of ways
of thinking about politics and government, a
pattern of orientations to political objects.
. Cognitive (know / believe what) .
Affective (like / dislike)
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Why we are so? If not born to be so, we are
socialised to be ...
Political Socialisation the developmental
process from which people acquire their
political orientations and patterns of behaviour
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Typologies

• Manifested vs Latent
• Planned vs Unplanned

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Socialisation Agents

• Family / Parent
• School
• Peer Group (friends, colleagues, classmates,
  neighbours)
• Mass Media
• socialisation and resocialisation ...

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What is learned when we are growing up?

• Childhood perceive few basic political objects
  as somehow different from their families
• Early School Age construct more abstract
  perception of political objects
• Adolescence increasing exposure to all faces of
  society (bad and good), political favour
• Adulthood firm belief and active in politics
• Old Age gradually decline in political activity

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Political culture of Hong Kongese

• Trust to government, politics, parties,
  politicians
• Participation
• Democracy
• Why we are so? Who socializes us to be so?