Political Socialization and Political Culture
Cecep Hidayat
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Universitas Indonesia
Points of Discussion
• The general process of socialization.
• The stages of political psychology.
• Political socialization.
• Political socialization phase.
• The definition of political socialization.
• The definition of political culture.
• Political culture category.
Political Socialization
Political Socialization
Political Socialization and Political Culture are the behavioral
approach.
Political culture is the basis of all political activities.
Political culture is arising from the process of political
socialization.
Political socialization is the process of induction into the same
political culture.
The process of socialization is the process of a person learns
the values, norms, and behavior of society.
Three General Process in Socialization
• Process for someone to gain knowledge
Cognitive
•Mind of someone affected by the knowledge gained
Affective
• the assessment process
Evaluative
Definition of Political Participation
Everyone in the community will meet with political object or political
phenomenon. Meeting of the political object with an individual sensor
will cause cognitive map, which consists of:
Affection: decide
Perception: awareness something or
of every person to Conceptualization: have partisanship to a political
understand political a full understanding of symptom or object.
phenomena or political political phenomena. Affection: decide
objects something or
partisanship to a political
symptom or object.
The Object of Political Values
Stages of the above referred to as the stage of
political psychology. The entire stage above
called as political values or patterns of political
behavior.
Political values are then submitted to:
1. Individuals.
2. Group.
3. Organized groups.
The Process of Political Socialization
So the political Agents of political
socialization is the socialization process:
transfer of political 1. Parents and its family
values and patterns as environmental.
well as political 2. School.
behavior. 3. Social environment.
The Stages of Political Socialization
The introduction Selection and Institutionalization
of values and stabilization of of values and
patterns of the values and patterns of
political behavior. patterns of political behavior.
political behavior.
Political Culture
Then a meeting between the institutionalization with other
institutionalization called political culture.
Political culture is the attitude, behavior, and orientation of
political thought.
Political culture of each country is different because of
different political socialization process. Different political
cultures caused differences in the performance of the political
system of each country.
Political culture shape national identity.
Political Culture consists of:
Cognitive orientation Political preferences
knowledge and taste like or dislike a
awareness of each person person or group against
or group about the political certain things in a political
system. system that caused
preference to a group.
Political Culture
Almond & Verba
Parochial Participants
Conducted by the Subject Almost all
nations that have Some of the members of
low political member nations society in that
consciousness. began to have country has a
This means that political political
almost all nations awareness. consciousness
did not care about that has been
political issues. high.
References
§ Alfian dan Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin (1991). Profil Budaya Politik
Indonesia. Jakarta, Grafiti Pers.
§ Mas’oed, Mochtar dan Colin McAndrews (1990). Perbandingan
Sistem Politik. Yogyakarta, Gajah Mada University Press.
§ Ranney, Austin (1996). Governing: An Introduction to Political
Science. New Jersey, Prentice Hall.
§ Rush, Michael dan Phillip Althoff, Pengantar Sosiologi Politik.
Short Bio
Cecep Hidayat is a lecturer of Political Science at the Universitas
Indonesia. He is also a researcher at the Universitas Indonesia.
Prior to joining the Universitas Indonesia, he has been conducting
some research towards Indonesian politics as well as politics in
Southeast Asian countries, until now. Cecep Hidayat holds a
Sarjana degree (equivalent with Bachelor degree)/B.Sc in Political
Science from the Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia, as well as dual
degree in IMRI (International Masters in Regional Integration) from
the Asia-Europe Institute of Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia and Centro Internacional Carlos V of Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
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