Culture and Politics
Subtitle: A Reader
Contributors: Lane Crothers (Editor); Charles Lockhart (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 9, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780312225438
Subjects: Culture; Political Sociology; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Sociology - General; Political culture
First sentence: Gabriel Almond, the "dean" of contemporary political culture theory, begins by showing that culture-people's cognitions, values, and affective commitments-has been central to important explanations of social life for over two thousand years.