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Comment: Agents of political socialization.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Western Political Thought

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Political socialisation is the lifelong process through which individuals acquire political knowledge, loyalties and dispositions, and through which a society hands its political culture from one generation to the next. Herbert H. Hyman launched the field with Political Socialization (1959). The agents are the institutions that do this teaching, and they differ in timing, intention…

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  • How Agents Work
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  • The Indian Pattern
  • Limits of the Agent Model
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