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Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: F
Political Science
Volume 15 Issue 3 Version 1.0 Year 2015
Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal
Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA)
Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X
Pupils’ Unconventional Political Demonstration as a Result of their
Political Socialization: Empirical Approach in Secondary Schools of
Central Macedonia
By Anthony D. Papaoikonomou
Abstract- This paper presents a research that was carried out in autumn 2015 about the
unconventional political demonstration of secondary education pupils. The sample consisted of
960 questionnaires that were collected from schools of central Macedonia. The purpose of this
research was to examine the factors that influence pupils to occupy schools every autumn and to
describe the profile of the pupils that act in this way. At first a brief introduction in the notion of
political socialization is attempted putting forward the factors that determine the degree of pupils’
politicization such as the family, the peer group, the school and the mass media. Secondly, a link
between political socialization and political demonstration is attempted commenting on the habit
of occupying schools every autumn. The results of the research show that the majority of
students do not participate in such actions as well as a tendency of male pupils to participate
more than the female. Also, pupils from vocational schools show a tendency to take part in
occupations as well as in provocations in relation to pupils from gymnasia and normal high
schools (lyceums).
PupilsUnconventionalPoliticalDemonstrationasaResultoftheirPoliticalSocializationEmpiricalApproachinSecondarySchoolsofCentralMacedonia
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Aristotle University of Thesaloniki, Greece
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