European Journal of Political Culture ISSN 2784 - 0271 ISSN – L 2784 – 0271 Volume 1, Issue 1 (March 2021) Published: 30 March 2021 Corresponding Author: Dr. Zoran Pavlović, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Contact Address: pavlozoran@gmail.com Copyright @ 2021, Zoran Pavlović European Journal of Political Culture (March 2021) 1(1):11-19. In Search of the Theory of Values in the Political Culture Research. A commentary Zoran Pavlović University of Belgrade Serbia There is hardly a concept in the social science literature like political culture – both ‘old’ and ‘modern’, complex and intuitive, used and disputed. It denotes the phenomena that were debated in Ancient Greece, as well as during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; it relates to comprehensive and very complex areas of human behaviour elaborated in long books, yet seems easily understood by the common people; some use it to explain why societies and political systems ‘fail’ (e.g. Almond, 1983), while others argue that explaining something by political culture is little better than saying “I do not know” (Thompson et al., 1990). Still, when so many scholars speak the scientific language of culture and/or politics, dissonant tones and misunderstanding are to be expected. The questions that need to be addressed regarding the study of political culture are numerous and scholars’ answers to them are often irreconcilable. A more thorough elaboration of major epistemological, theoretical, and methodological issues in the political culture studies cannot be offered here and may be found elsewhere (see, for example, Elkins & Simeon, 1979; Gibbins, 1989; Pavlović, 2017; Street, 1994; Voinea, 2020; Voinea & Neumann, 2020; Welch, 2016). Here it will suffice to say that scholars often come to the