Political socialization in adulthood - The role of latent political learning in particular view of working life

政治社会化研究对成年期政治取向和行为的稳定或变化及其程度和可能的原因知之甚少。然而，德国社会经济小组(SOEP)和英国家庭小组调查这两个大型纵向调查小组几乎没有被使用，尽管它们为政治社会化研究提供了全面而出色的数据，使人们能够深入了解政治学习的动态。该项目利用这些数据，基于政治社会化是一个终身过程的假设，分析了政治取向和行为模式的长期发展，并寻找潜在原因。为了达到两个总体研究目标，我们将对政治社会化的稳定性和因果关系进行广泛的分析。第一个目标是仔细和详细地分析个人政治取向和行为的动态：哪些不同的属性在一生中会发生变化，变化的程度如何？以及，政治取向的稳定性在多大程度上取决于重要的调节因素，如个人特征、社会和地理流动性或关键个人事件的类型和频率。第二个目的是考察社会化的重要第三主体对政治认同发展的因果关系，特别关注职业和工作的作用。本文提出了四个主要问题：(1)职业地位对长期政治认同在方向性、强度和可持续性方面的影响是什么？(2)职业条件对政治认同有何影响？(3)职业条件与政治认同之间是否存在互动关系？政治认同的特质是否存在对职业状况和条件有影响？(4)工作生活之外的个人事件有哪些作用？该项目提供了一个很好的机会，在具有代表性的纵向数据的基础上，直接分析与政治认同的长期发展有关的职业经历的几个维度。因此，这一项目将对理解成人的长期政治学习及其潜在机制产生可持续的影响。

The research on political socialization knows little about stability or change of political orientation and behavior in the adulthood in regard to its degree and possible causes. However, two large longitudinal panels, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the British Household Panel Survey, are hardly used, although they provide comprehensive and excellent data eligible for studies in political socialization allowing deep insights in the dynamics of political learning.Using these data and based on the hypothesis, that political socialization is a life-long process, the project analyses the long-term development of political orientation as well as behavior patterns and looks for the underlying causes. To achieve two general research aims, stability and causality of political socialization will be analyzed extensively. The first aim is to analyze carefully and in detail the dynamics of the individual political orientation and behavior: Which of the different attributes vary during lifetime and to what degree? And, to what extent is the stability of political orientation dependent on important moderators as personal traits, social and geographic mobility or type and frequency of critical personal events. The second aim investigates the causality of important tertiary agents of socialization on the development of political identity with a special focus on the role of profession and work. In detail four leading questions are asked: (1) What causes a change of occupational position on long-term political identity with respect to direction, intensity and sustainability? (2) How is the impact of occupational conditions on political identity? (3) Is there a reciprocal relationship between occupational conditions and political identity? Does traits of political identity exist which have an impact on occupational situation and conditions? (4) What are the role personal events beside working life?The project affords the excellent opportunity to analyze directly several dimensions of professional experience with respect to the long-term development of political identity on the base of representative longitudinal data. Therefore this project will have a sustainable effect on understanding of long-term political learning in adulthood and its underlying mechanism.