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A paper which looks at definitions of political culture, with specific reference to Almond and Verba's model and its limitations according to other theorists. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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self in the system" (Almond and Verba, 1963, 11), exemplified by the political orientation of the members of a society. Political culture, however, was not necessarily congruent with the political
system of the state. Almond and Verba also contended that civic culture was mixed, in political terms, and that individuals within that culture might be either active or passive. Consequently,
Almond and Verba observed that there would be discrepancies between the political obligations of individuals, the way that they perceived politics, and their actual behavior. They also contended that civic
culture was not something that was formally transmitted to the citizen through the social institution of education, but was the result of exposure to numerous social apparatus, including school, the
political system, the workplace, family, local community, and so on. However, as Chilton (2005) points out, even though the idea of political
culture itself appears straightforward, in fact it has "presented surprisingly complex conceptual problems" (Chilton 2005). Since Almond and Verbas original analyses, there have been problems found in the definition and
testing of hypotheses relating to political culture. Although this "proliferation of conceptualizations" is, as Chilton states, "natural for (such) an important widely used concept" (Chilton, 2005) he asserts that as
a result of this complexity, political culture "remains a suggestive rather than a scientific concept" (Chilton, 2005). Chilton
therefore suggests a number of criteria which might be employed, in order to establish a more scientific and analytic framework for the concept of political culture than that which is
offered by Almond and Verba. He states, for instance, that culture must be distinguished from "mere aggregates of individuals" (Chilton, 2005) and cites Dittmer (1977) as stating that if political
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