POLITICAL SOCIALISATION �IT IS A PROCESS BY WHICH ONE ACQUIRES ATTITUDES AND ORIENTATIONS ABOUT POLITICAL CULTURE.
DEFINITIONS: � Allan R. Ball : Political Socilisation is the establishment and development of attitudes and beliefs about political system. � Dennis Kavanagh : Political Socialisation is the term used to describe the process where by individual learns and develops orientations to politics.
CHARACTERISTICS OF POLITICAL SOCIALISATION � � � � � IT IS A PROCESS IT IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS IT IS A UNIVERSAL PROCESS IT CAN BE GUIDED TO A PARTICULAR DIRECTION IT CAN BE MANIFEST OR LATENT IT IS BOTH FORMAL AND INFORMAL IT PASSES POLITICAL CULTURE FROM ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER IT DIFFERS FROM STATE TO STATE IT IS INTERNALISATION OF POLITICAL BELIEFS
TYPES OF POLITICAL SOCIALISATION �MANIFEST OR DIRECT �HIDDEN OR LATENT �PRIMITIVE �MODERN
AGENTS OF POLITICAL SOCIALISATION � � � � FAMILY SOCIETY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL PARTIES PRESSURE GROUPS PRESS RADIO AND TELEVISION CINEMA ACTIVITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT PEER GROUPS SYMBOLS SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF GREAT NATIONAL LEADERS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE PEOPLE EVERYDAY POLITICS
BY : RUCHIKA JOSHI ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE PGGCG-42, CHANDIGARH.