civic culture
Community participation norms
Civic culture refers to the shared attitudes, values, and practices that shape how citizens engage with their community and government.
It encompasses beliefs about participation, trust in institutions, and norms of public behavior.
A healthy civic culture typically includes habits like voting, volunteering, and respect for democratic processes: The town's strong civic culture showed in its packed school board meetings.
- votingFormally registering a choice
- voter registrationSigning up for elections
- mutual aidCooperative community support
- government accountabilityOfficials answering for decisions
- reciprocityMutual exchange of actions
activism · media literacy · volunteerism · public institutions · democratic values · conflict resolution · public square · critical thinking · grassroots movements · local councils · public discourse · town hall meeting · social capital · community building · political parties · neighborhood associations · good neighbor · block party
- culturessubculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground, bohemian
- civic engagementvoting, public participation, participatory democracy, democratic participation, democratic accountability
civic cultureprivate life
One's nonpublic existence
private sphere · domestic sphere · family life · personal life · individualism
civic culturepolitical apathy
Indifference to governance
anomie · disengagement · alienation · withdrawal · social isolation
civic culturetribal culture
Traditions of kinship-based societies
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