COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION: THE EVOLUTION OF IDEAS AND EXPLANATORY MODELS IN WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Objective: communication is one of the most important ways and mechanisms of political socialization without analysis of which it is impossible to adequately understand this social process. In the 70s of the 20th century, in Western political science a separate direction related to studying of communicative aspects of political socialization began to form. Today the literature on this issue has hundreds of publications that need to systematize and analyze the ideas and explanatory models contained in them. Such an analysis is absolutely necessary for both further development of the theory of political socialization and the solution of practical problems. This article is an attempt to present a brief review, to trace evolution of the theories and explanatory models, used in Western political science to describe communicative aspects of political socialization. Method: historical comparative and systemic methods were used. They allowed to show the transformation of views of Western researchers on the role of various types of communication in the political development of the individual and to identify the place of a particular model in explaining socializing effects of communicative processes. Results: the main theories and models developed within communicative perspective in the study of political socialization were identified; the evolution of views of Western researchers on the communicative aspects of political socialization was shown; general assessment of the heuristic and practical significance of the models considered was presented. Originality: this paper is the first attempt to identify and to describe communicative direction in studying of political socialization; the article may be useful for those interested in problems of propaganda and political development of the individual.

Tarasova E.G., (2018), COMMUNICATION AND POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION: THE EVOLUTION OF IDEAS AND EXPLANATORY MODELS IN WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE. Sociopolitical Sciences, 3 => 11-17.

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