The Phenomenon of Political Culture: Theoretical Reflection and Practical Applicability in Slovakia Cover Image

Fenomén politickej kultúry: teoretické reflexie a praktická aplikácia na Slovensku
The Phenomenon of Political Culture: Theoretical Reflection and Practical Applicability in Slovakia

Author(s): Peter Ondria, Barbora Krištofová
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Mateja Bela
Keywords: political culture; socialisation; socialising factors; media; media literacy; empirical analysis; sociological research

Summary/Abstract: Our scientific study is of theoretical and empirical nature. The dominant aspect is the term political culture, characterising fashion and at the same time persistent phenomenon. This concept is a kind of socio-political agent, a priori associated with reciprocal action of culture and politics. In the primary theoretical and methodological part of work, we attempted to summarise and synthesise knowledge about political culture focusing on its rise, progress and subsequent naturalisation in the society, based on the published theories of major authors, and implied descriptive and comparative method. In the second part, we described and classified the term socialisation, relating to the political culture. For that reason, we focused mainly on secondary socialising agents, characterised by its implementation's importance for the formation of personality, as well as for the reproduction of social relations. In the third empirical and analytical part of work, we integrated quantitative research methods, through deductive method, based on the following objectives constitutive. This section of work includes the interpretation of results, evaluation and subsequently recommendations, findings and identified generalised research results. On the basis of acquired and exact data, we tried to test our hypotheses concerning key points of work, by process of methodological testing.

  • Issue Year: 16/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 29-64
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: English