What Is The Relationship Between Socialization And Political Culture?

The need for a pattern of appropriate behavior and attitudes necessitates all societies to institutionalize the process of incorporating their future. This long-life process from infancy to old age is known as socialization. The paper analyzes the relationship between socialization and political culture and how education contributes to the formation. It contends that the nature of politics and socio-political activities in a country is contingent upon the socialization that the citizenry undergoes through education. It is the contention of the paper that the seeming political instability in the third world countries, for example, is among other reasons due to the unstable political culture and poor educational background that the citizens are

What citizens believe and feel about the social behavior, structure, and functioning of human society (sociology). We can deduce from the foregoing that there is a symbiotic relationship between the level of socialization and political culture in various countries of the world. For example, the rate at which people participate in politics, social activities (historical events) and in an election could be seen as the product of their socialization. One may be tempted to ask, why do people not participate actively in elections in a country like Nigeria? And why do Americans participate actively in elections or politics generally? To enable us to attend to all the questions so far asked in this work, the paper is divided into six

In other words, socialization helps to preserve, transmit and inculcate distinctive patterns of culture across through education.

Political Culture

In general, the concept of culture refers to that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, laws, customs and other capabilities and habits acquires by man as a member of a society. The classical definition of political culture is provided by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba in their book the Civil Culture. According to them, political culture is people’s predominant beliefs, attitudes, values, ideas, sentiments, and evaluation about the political system.” As Eric Rowe (1979: 12) states it, it is “a pattern of individual values, beliefs and emotional