Political Socialization

Leo Kissler

Political socialization is a form of socialization. An individual's biological birth is followed by a second phase, described as a “social-cultural birth,” which turns him or her into a social being. This procedure is called socialization . It is a multidimensional process that significantly shapes the relation of the individual toward the social environment. A great number of people (e.g., educators), institutions (e.g., schools), and factors in the social environment (e.g., mass media) are involved. In the following, the major forces shaping this process in modern societies are discussed. Socialization can be defined as the following: a process of forming an individual into a sociocultural personality through the shaping of those cognitive, linguistic, motivational, emotional-affective, and similar features that enable persons to understand the social environment and to participate in its shaping (primary socialization); a process of imparting social values, norms, and abilities for the accomplishment of social existence, occurring ...

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