Sociology and Space, No. 49-50, 1975.
Original scientific paper
POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION OF RURAL YOUTH
Ivan Šiber
Abstract
Analysis of political socialization of rural youth proceeds from the assumption
that the dominanting influence is one's parents, which stems from the traditional
social relationships typical of rural environments, low levels of education, and the
constant and close physical proximity of children to their sources of authority. The
research shows this assumption to be incorrect. The general carriers of influence
on the younger generation are mostly institutional, principally the media of mass-
-communication and the schools.
In regard to the content of political socialization, two general value-orientations
were investigated; the acceptance of the value of the self-managed political
society, and the acceptance of the value of bourgeois society. The hypothesis that
these two value-systems exist simultaneously, the research results show to be correct.
The value of a self-managed society is highly accepted, but at the same time,
rural youth have not been severed from the earlier value system of bourgeois society.
Finally, the research results also confirm a low level of political involvment
among rural youth.
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Hrčak ID:
118973
URI
Publication date:
15.12.1975.
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