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Comment: Process of Political socialization in Afro-Asian societies.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Western Political Thought

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Classic Western studies of political socialisation assumed a settled nation whose family, school and party transmit an agreed culture across generations. Post-colonial Afro-Asian states had no such inheritance: the nation itself had to be taught. Their socialisation has therefore been discontinuous, contested and state-directed, and it is now being remade by a digitally connected youth.

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  • A Discontinuous Process
  • The Colonial Imprint
  • Nation-building by Design
  • The Digital Generation
  • Limits of the Frame
  • Conclusion
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