Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
UGC NET December 2014 Political Science
The cultural thrust in comparative politics became prominent during
AThe 1950s
BThe 1960s ✓ Correct
CThe early 1970s
DThe late 1970s
Correct answer: (B) The 1960s — The cultural thrust in comparative politics became prominent in the 1960s, so the answer is the 1960s.
Explanation
★The cultural thrust in comparative politics became prominent in the 1960s, so the answer is the 1960s.
★The term political culture was popularised by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba in The Civic Culture, published in 1963.
★Political culture means the pattern of beliefs, attitudes and evaluations a population holds towards its political system.
★The 1960s shifted attention from formal institutions to the subjective orientations of citizens, studied through survey methods.
★The 1950s belonged mainly to the systems and structural-functional frameworks of Easton and Almond.
★The early and late 1970s saw critiques of behaviouralism and the rise of political economy, not the peak of the cultural approach.
★Almond and Verba surveyed five nations, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Mexico, anchoring the cultural turn empirically.
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