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ERIC Number: EJ207513
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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Political Culture and Education in Advanced Industrial Societies: West Germany and the United States.
Merelman, Richard M.; Foster, Charles R.
International Review of Education, v24 n4 p443-65 1978
The theoretical framework proposed here treats political alienation as a normal outcome of the incompatability between egalitarian goals and social inequalities in democratic systems. The framework is applied to the role of education in the United States, a stable democracy, and in West Germany, an emergent democracy. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Democratic Values, Developed Nations, Equal Education, Models, Political Attitudes, Political Power, Political Socialization, School Role, Social Stratification, Student Alienation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Historical Materials
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Anomie; Political Alienation; United States; West Germany