Political affiliation in relation to certain psychosocial variables (Paperback)

CONCEPT OF POLlTICAL AFFILIATION

Since the incept of mankind and civilization human behavior is governed by many

factors viz needs, motives, aspirations, values, customs, traditions etc. which are

moulded by the cultural, environmental, economic and political

!actors in a specific manner. Some of the needs though are considered

secondary by Maslow ( 1934) but they have occupied a central position in the

governance of human behavior. Among them political factors perlrnps have

played the dominant role in shaping one's behavior especially during the last

om: and a hnlr decade not only in India hut across the world. However, the

dctcrmin.ints or these political factors in the whole world are somehow not

parallel or similar to those or Indian politics. This may perhaps he attributed to

the diversity in many respects of religion, region, caste, class, education,

urban, rural, gender bias which all have coined the believes of the Indian

population in a typical manner. This in tum have influenced their complete life style

and behavior, hut interestingly these political factors have unstable

polarization which leads to the variation in the political affiliation of the

Indi.: m people at one or the other time. These variations in political affiliations

cannot he easily specified or defined due lo the different motives and

personality characteristics behind these affiliations,