论政治文化的基本特征与功能

Discussing the feature and the function of the political culture

政治文化是人们在社会生活中形成的对于政治感受、认识和道德习俗规范的复杂综合,具有不同于物质文化及制度文化的特征,并对民族、国家的稳定及社会的发展产生重大影响。

Political culture is the complicated synthesis of feeling and cognition to politics and the moral convention that formed in the society in which people lived. The features of the political culture are distinct from material culture and institutional culture while political culture is of the function in which it can maintain and safeguard the regular operating of the political system. This thesis ex- pounds the fundamental feature and function of the political culture from three aspects, such as the feature of model, structure and stability, and the function to maintain the regular operating of the political system, to standardize and to lead the practice of the members of the society, to orientate the developmental direction of the social politics. Therefore, the political culture provides the significance for people to understand and the possible developmental course of politics, promising and form while the political culture makes a difference to the stability of nation and social development.