The Civic Culture: Between Analytical Category and Normative Ideal

Jakub Potulski

doi:10.35757/CIV.2020.27.02

Tom 27 (2020): KULTURA OBYWATELSKA

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The Civic Culture: Between Analytical Category and Normative Ideal

Jakub Potulski⁺⁻

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/CIV.2020.27.02
Przesłane: 8 lipca 2020
Opublikowane: 22 grudnia 2020

Abstrakt

Political culture is one of the most popular research areas related to the functioning of the sphere of politics. Contemporary research on political culture was initiated in the 1950s by American researchers Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba. Their research was characterised by the assumption that the stability of a political system requires a balance between political structures and the accompanying political patterns. They pointed out that modern democratic institutions require civic participation and thus the development of a specific type of attitudes towards the sphere of politics referred to as the civic culture. In this article, the author analyses the social context in which the concepts of Almond and Verba arose, noting that they strongly influenced the way the concept of the civic culture was conceptualised. The author draws attention to the normative aspect of the theory of the American researchers, the consideration of which is necessary for a full understanding of the concept of the civic culture.

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