Political Socialization and the change of Political Identity： The case of ”Goa Seng Lang Association for Taiwan Independence

• Main Authors: Li-Fen Hwang, 黃麗芬
• Other Authors: Tsui-Lien Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59595711039589270068

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 公共行政學系公共政策碩士班 === 93 === The main theme of this research is to investigate the factors that have a great influence on the members of GATI to deal with the issues of political socialization and political identity. The researcher used the theory for the political socialization as a base, and from all the possible tracts to form political socialization, such as family, school, peer group, political event, political party, public mass communication to analyze these issues. By using individual interview and analyzing obtained data from 26 members of GATI, the researcher tried to understand why these members have a different political view from that of the same ethics. It was found that textbooks and family life had deep influence on most of members before high school on the issue of Chinesized education. After that, there were many chances to touch with various kinds of media and socialites such as peer group, academic and recreational societies, mass communication, political incidents, working environments, etc. Under these situations, the original political identity in their mind has been changed tremendously. It was also found that the thoughts of foreigners on this concern caused many interviewers to suspect the correctness of their previous view on the political identity. From D. Easton & J. Dennis’s three kinds of political socialization, it was found that the political knowledge and behaviors of these interviewers were learned by themselves actively from peer group, the experience from attending various societies, different views of political magazines or underground radio stations, but not through these planned by political party passively. The members of GATI often use the way of horizontal transmission to pass their different political view; whereas, their identity to China was from their personal feeling and the imagination of parents’ homeland linkage. Besides, the main cause of these interviewers to change their political attitude was from political education and political learning mode and it is an active, but not passive way. From Hess & Tornery’s proposed theory that there are 4 modes that influence political learning process, the members of GATI used the recognition mode to develop their personal political identity as the age increase. As a whole, the personality of GATI members is to against authorization, although they may not be the elite ones in the society. However, they have good education, sensitive to political issue and have strong feeling on political events. They adapt all kinds of methods to gather related information and then use it for the political re-socialization. Although most of them support the Taiwan independence movement as their choices for national identity, the researcher found small portion of the interviewers has a different view on Shih-Ming’s idea of Taiwan independence proposal under the consideration of nationalism; however, from the social, economic and democratic point of views, most of interviewers recognize themselves as a Taiwanese but not a Chinese.