POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION AND ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SOCIAL DEPRIVATION

Abstract

The social deprivation exerts significant destructive effect on political socialization of citizens and their electoral behavior. Process of political socialization, being a component of the general sotsializatsionny process, assumes incorporation of political values and ideologems in basic hierarchy of the social values mastered by the individual. However in the conditions of a social deprivation the acquired political values enter an unsoluble contradiction with reality of realization of the individual in a political field. This idea it is consecutive and reasoned is stated and proved in this article.