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The question manifestation of mass political behavior in modern individualized society through the formation of new social and political values and the growing role of individual choice individual nature of its activities in politics.Key words: mass political behavior, individualized society, class identification, the era ofmodern, post-industrial society. ; Досліджуються вияви масової політичної поведінки у сучасному індивідуалізованому суспільстві через формування системи нових соціально-політичних цінностей і постійно зростаючої ролі індивідуального вибору особистістю характеру своєї діяльності в політиці.Ключові слова: масова політична поведінка, індивідуалізоване суспільство, класова ідентифікація, епоха модерну, постіндустріальне суспільство.

This article attempts to assess the extent of "scientific progress" in the study of religion and political behavior in the United States. Using three models of scientific enterprise, I find that the empirical study of religion and politics has been quite successful in an inductive, cumulative sense and has been moderately successful in providing interpretive, verstehen explanations as well. In general, research in religion and politics has not produced much in the way of "covering laws," "paradigms," or "research programs," in which religious variables are central theoretical concepts. Rather, explanations using religious phenomena are typically special cases of more general theoretical perspectives. I suggest that the last characterization does not reflect intellectual failure on the part of researchers; rather, the phenomena of religious politics appears essentially decentralized, and our best theories of religious behavior help account for the lack of parsimonious explanations in this area.