On The Dimensions Of College Students' Political Socialization

Political socialization is a frontier subject to other disciplines areas of common concern and urgent in-depth study, such as ideological and political education, social psychology, political sociology, politics, education, and through to study the people of political socialization, it could helps people comprehensive development and the social of harmony and stability. Current, China is in the period of social change, society has undergone enormous change, such as social politics, economy, culture, etc. so, people's thought, value orientation and behavior patterns been changing, contemporary college students as a special group have also profound influence by it. Since the Chinese government is implementing the policy of college expansion at the end of last century, the number of college students increased rapidly. As a rapidly growing population in our country's present social systems, college students have increasingly being extensive concern by the whole society. College students are the builders and successors of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the status of college students'political socialization is good or bad, smooth or not, successful or not, which not only relates to college students'prospect and destiny, but also relates to the dominant political culture of our country can get the correct internalize and practice in college students, and then it affected the major issue of our country's political systems operation can be successfully. In addition, essentially, political socialization and ideological and political education is consistent, they are in order to achieve the purpose of shaping the excellent Ideological and moral character of person, so, it could promotion the development of ideological and political education from a new perspective that it is explore the research of college students' political socialization, and also can be achieved the requirements of college students be successfully talent. Therefore, it is extremely important practical meaning and theoretical value to strengthen the study of college students'political socialization.This paper based on conclusion the results of previous studies, and to conduct special study college students' political socialization from the overall perspective, with the basic principles of Marxism as the guiding ideology, through the use of the relevant multi-disciplinary basic theory and method, from multi-dimensional explorations, to enrich the students'political socialization theories and practice.This paper consists of five parts:PartⅠ:Introduction. The paper describes significance of the research, methods and innovations, and emphatically introduce the research results of the domestic and foreign scholars achievements on relevant issues, and on this basis, it defined college students' political socialization from the angle of dimension.PartⅡ:The relationship dimension of college students' political socialization. From the relationship dimension of college students' political socialization, the paper discusses the four major relations which have important influence to college students' political socialization, that are social environment, university environment, mass media environment, and family environment, and these four aspects interact and common affect to college students' political socialization. It is the key to improve the effectiveness of college students' political socialization, what to strengthen the adjustment and optimization between the four systems and the internal each systems, and to realize the positive interaction of college students' political socialization.PartⅢ:The content dimension of college students' political socialization. From the content dimension it describes the five basic elements that is constitute the connotations of college students' political socialization, including political cognition, political emotion, political values, political beliefs, political ability and so on, and puts forward three measures in order to continuously innovative the content of college students' political socialization, they are to enhance the basic theory of college students' political socialization,reference theoretical achievements of foreign political socialization and optimize the content's structure of college students' political socialization, through these measures can achieve the purpose what to improve the content systems of college students' political socialization, enrich its theory research, cast college students'political personality that it is comply with the mainstream values.PartⅣ:The method dimension of college students' political socialization. The paper was constructing initially the method systems of college students' political socialization including the theoretical level and practical level from the method dimension. It was discussing college students' political socialization in the process of forms' innovations from four aspects, the main content is that special political output institution building, formal and informal approaches to implement college students' political socialization, directly and indirectly ways, the cultivation of students' individual political interests and social education.PartⅤ:The functional dimension of college students' political socialization. Focusing on the analysis of college students' political socialization in the dissemination, maintenance and modernization of the political culture, maintaining the stability of the political system and shaping qualified political and other aspects of the function from the functional dimension. On this basis, from adhering to the correct political position to achieve the target of political socialization of college students, developing the economy, promoting the construction of democratic politics to bolster political socialization of college students, accelerate the construction of political culture to perfect the socialist core valuable system, pay attention to students' individual political role in the political socialization process to further improve the function of political socialization of college students.