摘要：Analysis of political socialization of rural youth proceeds from the assumption that the dominanting influence is one's parents, which stems from the traditional social relationships typical of rural environments, low levels of education, and the constant and close physical proximity of children to their sources of authority. The research shows this assumption to be incorrect. The general carriers of influence on the younger generation are mostly institutional, principally the media of mass- -communication and the schools. In regard to the content of political socialization, two general value-orientations were investigated; the acceptance of the value of the self-managed political society, and the acceptance of the value of bourgeois society. The hypothesis that these two value-systems exist simultaneously, the research results show to be correct. The value of a self-managed society is highly accepted, but at the same time, rural youth have not been severed from the earlier value system of bourgeois society. Finally, the research results also confirm a low level of political involvment among rural youth.
