Political Culture, Communication, and Legitimacy Flashcards
In its broadest sense, is the way of life of a people.
Pattern of orientations to political objects such as parties, government and constitution expressed in beliefs and symbols and values.
Political Culture
What are the approaches to political culture?
The civic culture
The Marxist approach
The conservative approach
A set of specific attitudes which are crucial to the success of modern democracies
Civic culture
A political culture in which citizens pay close attention to politics, and regard popular participation as both desirable and effective.
Participant Political Culture
Political culture characterized by more passivity amongst citizens, and the recognition that they have only a very limited capacity to influence government.
Subject Political Culture
A political culture marked by the absence of a sense of citizenship, with people identifying with their locality, rather than the nation, and having neither the desire nor the ability to participate in politics.
Parochial Political Culture
A blend of the three political cultures.
It reconciles the participation of citizens in the government.
Civic Culture
What is the marxism’s first theory of culture?
Culture is essentially class specific.
What is the marxism’s second theory of culture?
The ideas of the ruling class pervade society and become the ruling ideas of the age.
The ascendancy or domination of one element of a system over others.
Hegemony
A marxist term, denoting ideas and theories that serve the interests of the bourgeoisie by disguising the contradictions of capitalist society.
Bourgeois Ideology
Three reasons (according to putnam’s view) of the decline of social capital
- spread of suburbanization
- rise of two-career families
- television desensitization
Refers to social connectiveness, as represented by networks, norms and trust that promote civic engagement.
Social Capital
A style of politics that seeks to counter group marginalization by embracing a positive and assertive sense of collective identity.
Identity Politics
A trend in literary, cultural, and political studies that seeks to expose and overturn the cultural and psychological dimensions of colonial rule.
Postcolonialism
