Pupils Unconventional Political Demonstration as a Result of their Political Socialization: Empirical Approach in Secondary Schools of Central Macedonia
This paper presents a research that was carried out in autumn 2015 about the unconventional political demonstration of secondary education pupils. The sample consisted of 960 questionnaires that were collected from schools of central Macedonia. The purpose of this research was to examine the factors that influence pupils to occupy schools every autumn and to describe the profile of the pupils that act in this way. At first a brief introduction in the notion of political socialization is attempted putting forward the factors that determine the degree of pupils’ politicization such as the family, the peer group, the school and the mass media. Secondly, a link between political socialization and political demonstration is attempted commenting on the habit of occupying schools every autumn. The results of the research show that the majority of students do not participate in such actions as well as a tendency of male pupils to participate more than the female. Also, pupils from vocational schools show a tendency to take part in occupations as well as in provocations in relation to pupils from gymnasia and normal high schools (lyceums).
