Making Citizens

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. A Model of the Political Socialization Process

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Changing Perspectives on Political Socialization

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      Pages 3-25

   3. Historical Context and Maturation

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      Pages 27-59

   4. Agents of Political Socialization Through the Life Course

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      Pages 61-91

3. Social Identities and Political Socialization

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Gender

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      Pages 95-126

   3. Race/Ethnicity

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      Pages 127-156

   4. Social Class

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      Pages 157-183

4. Illustrating and Modifying Political Socialization

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   2. Two Hypothetical Citizens

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      Pages 187-217

   3. Some “What” Questions About Future Citizens

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      Pages 219-245

5. Back Matter

   Pages 247-253

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This book  assembles what political scientists, sociologists, and communication analysts have learned in almost six decades of research on political socialization (the lifelong process by which we acquire political beliefs). It also explores how people develop political values, attitudes, identities, and behavioral dispositions. Of particular interest to Philo C. Wasburn and Tawnya J. Adkins Covert is the process by which people are made into active citizens who are politically interested, informed, partisan, tolerant, and engaged. Finally, Wasburn and Adkins Covert identify some suggestions for institutional change that would lead to “better” citizenship. 

• Social identities
• Citizenship
• Social identity
• Life course
• Race
• Gender
• sociology of citizenship

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Philo C. Wasburn

• Western Illinois University, Macomb, USA

  Tawnya J. Adkins Covert

Philo C. Wasburn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Purdue University, USA. He holds a PhD in sociology from Cornell University, USA, and an MA and BA in philosophy from the University of Michigan, USA.  



Tawnya J. Adkins Covert is Professor of Sociology at Western Illinois University, USA. She holds a PhD and MS in sociology from Purdue University and a BA in sociology from Marshall University, USA. 

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