Politička kultura i političko ponašanje u suvremenim poliltičkim procesima
Political Culture and Political Behaviour

Summary/Abstract: We conceive culture as a universal notion for defining different social contents or all manifestations of human personality. Meanwhile, when we say »political culture« we have ipso facto a new quality. There spring up dilemmas from that: whether political culture is an independent variable or only one dimension of culture generally, then, can an individuum of low cultural level have political culture and conversely. Political culture and political behaviour are class-determined and its specific character is just in that fact concerning quality. Since the phenomenon is undefined and imprecise, political culture, in the essay, is taken as an attitude of an individuum towards the whole, towards society. Which are essential characteristics of so conceived political culture with us: First, fear in the use of freedom, fear which is no more bio-psychological phenomenon-but socially determined condition of man. The primitive man could not explain natural phenomena and that was his fatality, and the modem man cannot explain some social and world phenomena which surround him and now that is his fatality. Second, overemphasized element of destruction in relation to creativeness. In the course of the whole history man preferred destruction to be able to create something new and this condition still prevails in his consciousness. Third, there is still retained tradition to identify state with society and hence the man's negative attitude towards the whole as an alienated power. Fourth, the emphasized behaviour of identification with organizations and leadership which diminishes human activity in the sense of creativity. Fifth, specific phenomenon is evident in the fact that the tendency of projection of personal feelings into general once — personal projection as historical origin has been constantly supported. All these elements have a common consequence — creation of artificial condition of social tension and human insecurity in all aspects of human existence. Thus, according to some features, political culture and behaviour are primarily manifested as social destruction, and after that as projected or anticipated creation.

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