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Shuozhou City's Emerging Class Of Political Attitudes And Behavior Of Political Participation

Posted on:2011-09-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R Q LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360305495672Subject:Political Theory
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This study aims to explore the emerging sectors of the new class's political attitudes and acts of political participation,using self-compiled questionnaire as a research tool. Research mother groups are Shuozhou emerging urban class, using a questionnaire survey method and a total of 303 valid questionnaires were obtained. According to the results of the subjects respondents had to mean,I used average, t test, single-factor analysis of variance, Pearson product-moment correlation and other statistical methods to carry out data analysis. The main findings are as follows:1,The new class has a more positive political attitude, in the four kinds of political attitudes, the "sense of civic responsibility" and "political trust" tend to be positive, "political efficacy" slightly positive "political alienation" lower. Different gender emerging class's "civic responsibility" has significant difference. Different age new classes have greatly different "political trust", "political efficacy" and "political alienation".Different levels of education in the emerging class lead to apparently different "civic responsibility".The new class in different industries are quite different in"civic responsibility","political trust", "political efficacy" and "political alienation".2,The emerging class's "sense of responsibility as a citizen" is positively related to "political trust" and "sense of political efficiency",but it is negatively linked with "the sense of political alienation".Their "political trust" is significantly associated with "sense of political officiency" and negatively associated with their "sense of political alienation".Besides,their "sense of political effiency" is obviously negatively linked with their "sense of political alienation".3,Acts of political participation in emerging class tend to be negative. In the four kinds of acts of political participation, they would likely be willing to actively participate in the the "political interest and discussion of information act".the "political associations to act" in the middle and lower levels of participation, in the "electoral participation behavior" and "acts of other participants ",participation tends to be low. The new class with different gender, educational level are obviously different in"political associations to act".Emerging class belonging to different industries have a significant difference in "political interest and discussion of information act", "political associations to act", "electoral participation behavior" and "other acts of participation". Different political parties in emerging class are quite different in "political associations to act", "electoral participation behavior" and "other acts of participation"4,The emerging class's "political interest and discussion of information act" is closely related to "political associations to act" and is negatively associated with the "other participating acts", their "political associations to act" is positively linked to "acts of electoral participation "and other participating acts,their acts of electoral participation "and" other participating acts "are significantly associated.5,The emerging class's "civic responsibility" is siginificantly associated with"political interest and discussion of information act"and"political associations to act". The emerging class's "political trust" and "political interest and discussion of information act" are significantly associated,but with the "other participating acts",it is significantly negative correlation. The emerging class's "political efficacy" and "political interest and discussion of information act" are significantly associated. The emerging class's "political alienation" and "political interest and discussion of information act" are significantly negatively correlated,and with the "other participating acts", it is significantly associated.Finally, the study provides recommendations for government departments, the new class and a reference for future studies,based on its findings and conclusions.
Keywords/Search Tags:Emerging class, Political attitudes, Acts of political participation
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