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Political socialization 2005-2006 Leiden Uni, Fac Soc Sci, Dep Pol Sci Lecture 3 – 22.02.2006

Political socialization 2005-2006 Leiden Uni, Fac Soc Sci, Dep Pol Sci Lecture 3 – 22.02.2006. Start : short recap Lecture 2 (things left) Today’s lecture : trends, generations, new forms Next time 01.03.2006 :

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Political socialization 2005-2006 Leiden Uni, Fac Soc Sci, Dep Pol Sci Lecture 3 – 22.02.2006

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  1. Political socialization 2005-2006Leiden Uni, Fac Soc Sci, Dep Pol SciLecture 3 – 22.02.2006 Start : short recap Lecture 2 (things left) Today’s lecture : trends, generations, new forms Next time 01.03.2006 : workshop 1 on Answer to your learning question(s) based on at least 3 sources from the assigned literature list see course manual we select papers and install chair/discussant at workshop

  2. Competing notions :EnculturationUpbringingMaturing Forms : Primary – SecondaryOther – Self Intermezzo :Self & (political) identityPhase-thinking Socialization Key emphases : process not in vacuum resources previous choices other-dependency changes with time as well as place Late-modernity : more personal flexibility self-initiated self-oriented (reflexive)

  3. Political socialization Key calls take account extension youth phase (Niemi & Hepburn) go beyond phase/stage-thinking (Sears et al.) focus on reconstruction messages in interactions (Wasburn) include APC-effects life course transitions (age/life cycle effects) events as catalysts (period effects) formative experiences (cohort/generation effect) longitudinal (panel) surveys iso postmodernist theorizing

  4. Political socialization Domain-specific hypotheses effects similar for interactions with parents, teachers, peers, (new) media (incl. does message from parents change when discussed with peers; see Wasburn) ? effects similar for values, attitudes (incl. cognitions, emotions, etc.), and actions ? re : actions : effects similar for voting, demonstrating, volunteering, blogging, buycotts, etc. ?

  5. Generations Many labels : e.g., protest generation, lost generation, backseat generation, ‘hotel mama’ generation, etc., vary by nation (similarities are there) Conditions : similar historic location, concious of shared formative history and destiny, groups articulating generation’s voice NL : political cleavages war/pre-war and post-war generation Difficult necessity : disentangling APC-effects (identification problem); impossible in one-shot survey : e.g., say in a 2006-survey people aged 20 are more right-wing than people aged 30 and formative period is 15-25 years of age; why more right-wing ? Because of being 20, events of 2001-2006, or being born in 1986 vis-a-vis being 30, events of 1991-2006, or being born in 1976 ? Nobody will know in a one-shot survey !

  6. Emerging repertoires Survey questions signs of the times: playing cards, occupying buildings, writing letters to Congress (what was conventional-unconventional then, is now no more) Not innocent ! Younger generations seen as non-civic threatening the survival of smooth interactions and democracy based on these surveys Alternative forms of engagement have developed : personalized, identity-based, consumerist, informal, spontaneous, short-lived, flexible, reflexive, feminine (Bennett; Ester & Vinken) Outcomes of political socialization younger generation ? What does this mean for research ? (Stolle & Hooghe) Do new forms matter ? Does shopping make the street lights burn? Do ‘real’ politics increasingly rely on older ‘civic’ generations only?

  7. Emerging repertoires Some examples (see also ‘course info’ on Blackboard) http://www.mecca-cola.com/en/ http://www.koopniets.nl/ https://secure.adbusters.org/orders/tvbgone/ http://www.netaction.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.icicp.org/index.php http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/whosWho/soniaLivingstone.htm#ukchildrengoonline Contribute to Discussion board forum on Blackboard

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