For scholars who approach the concept of political culture from an anthropological perspective, the concept of political culture advanced by political sociologists downplays the importance of culture in analysis. Moreover, it incorrectly categorizes the role of political culture as a reflection of individual attitudes. For cultural anthropologists, political cultures are dynamic systems of meaning that shape and constrain perceptions of people who interrelate in political contexts. Looking at aggregated survey data may not be the best indicator of how meanings are constituted in a particular political system or subsystem or even across political systems. Moreover, the political sociologist’s tendency to treat political culture as a more or less fixed national attribute directs attention away from the variations within a nation and impoverishes the ability to explain cultural change within a polity or variations across polities with similar social or economic characteristics