Political Socialization: a case study of teachers
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Clément K. Political Socialization: a case study of teachers. Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal = Sociological Journal. 2015. Vol. 21. No. 2. P. С. 68-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2015.21.2.1321 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The author analyses the process of political socialization in contemporary Russia using data from biographical interviews with three teachers. Political socialization is understood as a lifelong process of acquisition and transformation of political dispositions and attitudes through primary socialization, social experience in different social worlds, social networks, contextual evolution and significant events. The process can be grasped through the concept of social trajectory. As the three teachers have been chosen with many common socio-demographic features, two of them being close friends, the comparative analysis of their social trajectory and political views (which differ in a large extent) sheds light on some key processes involving in political socialization. The main tendency leads to depoliticization, however contradictory processes can counterbalance this tendency. The case study shows that the most significant processes or social worlds which matter in political socialization are family primary socialization (especially the presence or not of political issues in conversations with authoritative relatives), the subjective experience of labor and the degree of involvement in it, the consequences on personal experience of some significant historical periods or events which give rise to political conversations in everyday life.
Keywords:
political socialization, teachers, labor, social worlds, social trajectory, depoliticization, family, biographical interview
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Easton D., Dennis J. Children in the political system. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. — 638 p.
Fillieule O. Some elements of an interactionist approach to political disengagement. Social movement studies. 2010. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 1–15.
La politisation / J. Lagroye (ed.). Paris: Belin, 2003.
Mishler W., Rose R. Generation, age, and time: The dynamics of political learning during Russia's transformation. American Journal of Political Science. 2007. Vol. 51. No. 4. P. 822–834.
Political learning in adulthood: A sourcebook of theory and research. Ed by R.S. Sigel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. — 500 p.
Sainsaulieu I., Surdez M. Sens politiques du travail. Paris: Armand Colin, 2012. — 320 p.
Sapiro V. Political socialization during adulthood: Clarifying the political time of our lives. Research in Micropolitics. 1994. No. 4. P. 197–223.
Tilly C. Contentious conversation. Social Research. 1998. Vol. 65. No. 3. P. 491–510.
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Clément, K. 2015. Political Socialization: a case study of teachers. Sotsiologicheskiy Zhurnal = Sociological Journal. 21, 2 (Aug. 2015), С. 68-91. DOI:https://doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2015.21.2.1321.
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