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Гражданская культура: политические установки и демократия в пяти странах
Книга Г. Алмонда и С. Вербы стала модельным примером в области сравнительной политологии, на который равняются все последующие исследователи. В книге обобщены результаты массовых опросов, проводившихся в США, Великобритании, Германии, Италии и Мексике, направленных на изучение роли гражданских ценностей и гражданского поведения в поддержании демократической политической системы. Понятие гражданской культуры передает прежде всего уровень осознания гражданином общественных задач, его практической активности в деле претворения их в жизнь. В этом смысле она — структурный элемент гражданской жизни и выражает степень зрелости общества, способность обеспечения общегражданских интересов, форм и механизмов выработки и реализации совместных решений, согласованных действий. Авторы выделяют три типа гражданской культуры — парохиальную (ориентированную на сугубо местные проблемы), где нет конкретизации политических ролей и где политическая ориентация обыкновенно не конкретизируется; подданническую, где отношение к политической системе в целом возникает, но остается пассивным; и культуру участия, в которой члены общества четко ориентированы на активные действия, направленные на политическую систему в целом. Гражданин есть производное от «участника», «подданного» и «парохиала», а гражданская культура — производное от перечисленных трех типов культур.
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First published September 1, 1963
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Gabriel A. Almond
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Almond was born in Rock Island, Illinois, U.S., the son of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. He attended the University of Chicago, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, and worked with Harold Lasswell. Almond completed his Ph.D. degree in 1938, but his doctoral dissertation, Plutocracy and Politics in New York City, was not published until 1998, because it included unflattering references to John D. Rockefeller, a benefactor of the University of Chicago.
Almond taught at Brooklyn College (now the City University of New York) from 1939 to 1942. With U.S. entry into World War II, Almond joined the Office of War Information, analyzing enemy propaganda, and becoming head of its Enemy Information Section. After the war, Almond worked for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in post-war Germany.
Almond returned to academic life in 1947 and taught at Yale University (1947–1950) and (1959–1963), Princeton University (1950–1959), and Stanford University (1963–1993). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961.[1] He was chair of the political science department at Stanford from 1964 to 1969 and spent time as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, the University of Belo Horizonte, and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Although Almond retired in 1976 and became an emeritus professor at Stanford, he continued to write and teach until his death.
Almond chaired the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Comparative Politics for many years and was president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for 1965-66. In 1981, he received APSA's James Madison Award, which is given to a political scientist who has made a "distinguished scholarly contribution" during his or her career. He was also the first recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in 1997. Almond died in Pacific Grove, California aged 91.
Work
Almond broadened the field of political science in the 1950s by integrating approaches from other social science disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, and anthropology, into his work. He transformed an interest in foreign policy into systematic studies of comparative political development and culture. Almond's research eventually covered many topics, including the politics of developing countries, Communism, and religious fundamentalism.
Almond was a prolific author, publishing 18 books and numerous journal articles, and co-writing many others. His most famous work was The Civic Culture (1963), co-authored with Sidney Verba. It popularized the idea of a political culture - a concept that includes national character and how people choose to govern themselves - as a fundamental aspect of society. Almond and Verba distinguished different political cultures according to their level and type of political participation and the nature of people's attitudes toward politics. The Civic Culture was one of the first large-scale cross-national survey studies undertaken in political science and greatly stimulated comparative studies of democracy.
Almond also contributed to theoretical work on political development. In Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach (1966), Almond and G. Bingham Powell proposed a variety of cultural and functional ways to measure the development of societies. For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, Almond's approaches came to define comparative politics.
Almond was born in Rock Island, Illinois, U.S., the son of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. He attended the University of Chicago, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, and worked with Harold Lasswell. Almond completed his Ph.D. degree in 1938, but his doctoral dissertation, Plutocracy and Politics in New York City, was not published until 1998, because it included unflattering references to John D. Rockefeller, a benefactor of the University of Chicago.
Almond taught at Brooklyn College (now the City University of New York) from 1939 to 1942. With U.S. entry into World War II, Almond joined the Office of War Information, analyzing enemy propaganda, and becoming head of its Enemy Information Section. After the war, Almond worked for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in post-war Germany.
Almond returned to academic life in 1947 and taught at Yale University (1947–1950) and (1959–1963), Princeton University (1950–1959), and Stanford University (1963–1993). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1961.[1] He was chair of the political science department at Stanford from 1964 to 1969 and spent time as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, the University of Belo Horizonte, and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Although Almond retired in 1976 and became an emeritus professor at Stanford, he continued to write and teach until his death.
Almond chaired the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Comparative Politics for many years and was president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for 1965-66. In 1981, he received APSA's James Madison Award, which is given to a political scientist who has made a "distinguished scholarly contribution" during his or her career. He was also the first recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in 1997. Almond died in Pacific Grove, California aged 91.
Work
Almond broadened the field of political science in the 1950s by integrating approaches from other social science disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, and anthropology, into his work. He transformed an interest in foreign policy into systematic studies of comparative political development and culture. Almond's research eventually covered many topics, including the politics of developing countries, Communism, and religious fundamentalism.
Almond was a prolific author, publishing 18 books and numerous journal articles, and co-writing many others. His most famous work was The Civic Culture (1963), co-authored with Sidney Verba. It popularized the idea of a political culture - a concept that includes national character and how people choose to govern themselves - as a fundamental aspect of society. Almond and Verba distinguished different political cultures according to their level and type of political participation and the nature of people's attitudes toward politics. The Civic Culture was one of the first large-scale cross-national survey studies undertaken in political science and greatly stimulated comparative studies of democracy.
Almond also contributed to theoretical work on political development. In Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach (1966), Almond and G. Bingham Powell proposed a variety of cultural and functional ways to measure the development of societies. For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, Almond's approaches came to define comparative politics.
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May 13, 2011
This five nation study is a genuine classic and still worth reading. The focus is the nature of civic culture in these various countries. What is the nature of the culture? How does it affect politics in each country? A comparative survey research method is used, with all the challenges inherent therein. The end result provokes considerable thought as to the extent to which cultural values actually affect politics.
May 5, 2010
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“…Giovanni Falcone was a Sicilian judge who was ultimately assassinated by the Mafia, but not before he had managed to shift the attitude of the Italian government and create a central anti-Mafia agency... There is a sentence in Falcone’s book that I particularly liked. He says: “We have to learn to think about the methods of Cosa Nostra calmly and with an open mind.” And that’s exactly what he did. He tried to understand the entity. And he managed to persuade Tommaso Buscetta, the first big Mafioso to turn state witness, to speak. Up to that point many people, including scholars, didn’t believe the Mafia existed as a formal organization. …”
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“…Giovanni Falcone was a Sicilian judge who was ultimately assassinated by the Mafia, but not before he had managed to shift the attitude of the Italian government and create a central anti-Mafia agency... There is a sentence in Falcone’s book that I particularly liked. He says: “We have to learn to think about the methods of Cosa Nostra calmly and with an open mind.” And that’s exactly what he did. He tried to understand the entity. And he managed to persuade Tommaso Buscetta, the first big Mafioso to turn state witness, to speak. Up to that point many people, including scholars, didn’t believe the Mafia existed as a formal organization. …”
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March 8, 2011
"The Civic Culture," authored by Almond and Verba, was a major work, appearing in the earlier 1960s. It carried out research on political culture across a number of countries. This volume represents an update on the subject. As such, it provides an important temporal temporal perspective on the study of political culture. Too seldom do political scientists track political forces over time. This is a fine effort doing exactly that.
February 9, 2016
Assesses democratic attitudes and culture in Mexico, US, UK, Italy and Germany. Uses structural functionalism. Tries to argue that US and UK have civic culture conducive to democracy and other places don't. Based on survey data.
July 31, 2021
A detailed inquiry into the inner mechanisms of democracy: political identities, competencies, behavioral patterns, etc that all together constitute a “civic culture.” Despite being rather old, it still has immense value for politicians, scholars, and international development specialists.
March 7, 2021
allah affetsin çok sıkıcı kitap ama literatüre kattıkları nedeniyle çok da gömemiyoruz
October 19, 2025
excelente introdução para a área, que dentro das ciências sociais, é a minha menor área de wxpertise
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May 13, 2010my very very first reading in undergraduate political science department. nice memories!
May 18, 2010
One of the first real attempts at cross-national public opinion measurement.
March 25, 2012
nice methodology, idiots
March 30, 2016
This. Book. Only. Have. A. Title. Forgotten. Words.
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