ABSTRACT
The more one reflects upon the concepts of culture, the more one realizes that it is a most debated and complex conception. Political culture is thus the manifestation in aggregate form of the psychological and subjective dimensions of politics. A political culture is the product of both the collective history of a political system and the life histories of the members of that system, and thus it is rooted equally in public events and private experiences. The word ‘culture’ is an English version of the German word Kultur, which in turn derives from the Latin word cultura, from the verb colere, meaning to cultivate. Culture may help to understand how such processes as, for example, the Chinese Cultural Revolution are possible. The cultures of a society may be identified in several different ways; there is no one single valid classification. The most well-known theory of political culture is that of Almond and Verba.
