Title:	Making Citizens Political Socialization Research and Beyond
Authors:	Wasburn, Philo C.
Keywords:	Making Citizens
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	The book’s first section outlines a life course model of the political socialization process. Chapter 1 describes the field’s paradigm shifts. These have both contributed to and thwarted the development of an overall understanding of political socialization throughout the lives of individuals. Some of the basic theoretical and empirical insights provided by each of the perspectives are identified. These will be incorporated into the life course model of political socialization explicated in section one. The second chapter identifies two variables that influence all of the processes of political socialization referenced in the model: the historical context in which they occur and individuals’ levels of cognitive development and political sophistication. Inclusion of these influences within the proposed model is consistent with each of the apparently incompatible research paradigms. Chapter 3 discusses the agents of political socialization that play roles of varying importance throughout people’s lifetimes: family, school, church, work, voluntary associations, and media. Analysis is complicated by the fact that each of these has a somewhat different meaning in different periods of time.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/21368
ISBN:	978-3-319-50243-4
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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