Abstract
Current conceptualizations of political socialization are reviewed and a more structurally oriented alternative framework is presented. The concepts of opportunity structures and potentials are introduced, and the relative importance of sex versus social class differences in political awareness and articulation are examined. Analysis of empirical data, e.g. on the political and non-political information levels, on the correlations with sex of different politically relevant attitudes obtained from a survey of Finnish secondary and vocational school youth shows the generally lower level of awareness and articulation among females than males. More definite differences, however, were noted between the type of school in general, irrespective of the sex of the students.
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