AN ASPECT OF POLITICAL-SOCIALIZATION OF STUDENT MOVEMENT PARTICIPANTSIN KOREA

This article tests hypotheses from two perspectives, lineage socializa tion and generation unit, on Korean student protest participation, usi ng 360 self-administered questionnaires collected at three Korean univ ersities in the fall of 1991. Logistic response models were used to ex amine the influence of qualitative variables on protest behavior Resul ts indicate that both theoretical perspectives are not mutually exclus ive in explaining the characteristics of student protest participants. However, the findings lend stronger support to the generation unit mo del. The presence of a strong horizonal age-group bond in Korean socie ty influences students' political orientations and subsequently their protest behavior The common denominator that binds these student prote sters appears to be generational consciousness. The data also indicate that agents other than parents, such as peers, mentors, media, and so forth affect the process of (re)socialization to politics in this Kor ean student sample.