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In a time where the consequences of expanding globalization and social change, currently in terms of a disastrous worldwide financial crisis, affect many countries, there should be a renewed interest in processes of political socialization, participation, and identity formation of men and women as global citizens. Due to recent reports of increasing ethnocentrism, xenophobia, political apathy and political distrust in adolescents and young adults in Europe and many other countries around the world, the need to re-examine cognitive, affective, normative and behavioral aspects of political identity formation has become apparent. For more than four decades, research on political socialization and political culture in the Western Industrial World has established that males and females differ in their pathways towards political understanding and in their forms of political engagement.
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Kuhn, H. (2010). International Perspectives on Political Socialization and Gender: An Introduction. In: Ittel, A., Merkens, H., Stecher, L., Zinnecker, J. (eds) Jahrbuch Jugendforschung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92320-8_1
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