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The American School in the Political Socialization Process

Lee H. Ehman
- 01 Mar 1980 - 
- Vol. 50, Iss: 1, pp 99-119
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The authors found that political knowledge, political attitudes and values toward society and politics, attitudes toward political participation, and participation in political or quasi-political affairs were the main factors related to student political attitudes.
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This review addresses the question: What is known from empirical studies about the effects of schooling on the political socialization of American youth? School-level and classroom-level attributes are related to four political socialization outcomes: political knowledge, political attitudes and values toward society and politics, attitudes toward political participation, and participation in political or quasi-political affairs. The school curriculum is found to be effective in transmitting knowledge but not in influencing attitudes; social status of students influences these relationships. Classroom climate and student participation in school activities, and the school organizational climate were main factors found related to student political attitudes.

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Youth Civic Development: Implications of Research for Social Policy and Programs

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The Rebirth of Political Socialization

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School and community climates and civic commitments: Patterns for ethnic minority and majority students.

TL;DR: The developmental correlates of diffuse support for the polity and civic commitments were explored in a survey of 1,052 students from African American, Arab American, European American, and Latino American backgrounds as discussed by the authors.
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What Drives Conspiratorial Beliefs? The Role of Informational Cues and Predispositions

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The Civic Culture

TL;DR: Ouvrage de science politique as mentioned in this paper, which popularised la culture politique comme champ de recherche, was published in 1963, edition mise-a-jour en 1980 : The civic culture revisited ; traduction espagnole en 1970
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Political Socialization and the High School Civics Curriculum in the United States

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between the civics curriculum and political attitudes and behavior in American high schools and found that the degree of education played a crucial role in the political socialization process.
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The Development of Political Attitudes in Children

TL;DR: The first large-scale study of political attitude formation in children was presented in this article, based on a study of 12,000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities.
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Factors affecting HUMSS, Students attitude towards Political and Social Issue?

The school curriculum is effective in transmitting knowledge but not in influencing attitudes towards political and social issues.

Factors affecting HUMSS, Students attitude towards Political and Social issue?

The school curriculum is effective in transmitting knowledge but not in influencing attitudes towards political and social issues. Classroom climate and student participation in school activities are factors related to student political attitudes.