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Agents of Socialization

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Agents of socialization are the sources that teach political life: family, schools, friends, religious organizations, and the media.

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Family runs first and deepest — party attachment often arrives at the dinner table.

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Agents can conflict; a person's politics is the residue of competing teachers.