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The article focuses on competing explanations of change in the nature and sources of racial differences in political alienation. Political culture and socialization theories are part of a broader class of cultural or culture and personality explanations of individual attitudes and personality. Political attitudes, like other attitudes and personality traits, are viewed as stable and enduring personal dispositions acquired relatively early in life through experiences in the family, school, and social milieu in which a person grows up, though with some possibility of modification through later socialization and experiences. Just as other political attitudes, political alienation is transmitted from generation to generation via the same mechanisms as other cultural traits. Theorists using this perspective predict that alienation, especially a sense of powerlessness and generalized distrust, will be higher in individuals and groups characterized by low education and generally lower socioeconomic status, or positions of lower power and prestige in society for example, women and minorities.