| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 132 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- The relevance of political awareness: a literature review with meta-analysis -- Chapter 3 -- Political Awareness, Concept and Measurement -- Chapter 4 -- Political Awareness and Identification among Young Students: Political Identity and Democratic Engagement -- Chapter 5 -- Role of Political Awareness in Complex Societal Matters: The Cases of Health and Climate Change -- Chapter 6 -- Accuracy of self-assessments of political sophistication -- Chapter 7 -- Travelling with political awareness: A comparative approach |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary volume presents a comprehensive framework to understand political awareness. Political awareness has become an important part of research on political attitudes and political behavior since the publication of John Zaller's work on political opinion. The authors elaborate on his theory and present a new conceptualization, which stipulates that political awareness is the attentiveness, knowledge, and understanding of politics. Hence, the book discusses different aspects, such as the concept of political awareness, its formation, significance, measurement, and exploration. The result is a new framework that addresses conceptual, theoretical, and methodological questions, such as: What does the concept mean? How to study political awareness? How is it connected to other orientations? How do children and youth develop political awareness? Addressing researchers and graduate students, as well as scholars in political science, sociology, and education, this book is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of political awareness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Political sociology.
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Political psychology.
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Political psychology
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Political sociology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kristensen, Niels Nørgaard, editor.
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Denk, Thomas, 1971- editor.
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Olson, Maria (Teacher), editor.
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Solhaug, Trond, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030903947 |
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303090394X |
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