How Does Political Socialization Affect My Interest In Politics?

Family is not the only place I received my political socialization from, another place where I receive it is from my location in the United States. I am from Massachusetts which is in the North. I believe that people from the South would tend to be more conservative than people being from around here. A good example of this would be that Massachusetts is a state where homosexuals are allowed to get married. This might not be true for a southern state. That is another place where I do receive my political socialization from.

In my life I have never had any political enforcement or strict religious influence. My parents were very lenient when it came too political preaching. I was taught to be a caring and respectful individual. My political understanding and beliefs have been molded from my early political memories and socialization experiences. As a young adult I have always strived to become knowledgeable about political ideals mainly because I was never really taught to believe in something specific. I eventually was drawn towards many different social and political perspectives, which is how I came to a logical conclusion of how I view the world politically

In recent years’ police departments around the country have been brought into the public eye. Due to their actions towards African Americans many have become suspicious about the criminal justice system and the amount of trust that can be bestow upon them. The public has only focused on police but fail to realize that this goes deeper into the system itself. There have been many court cases where African Americans have received harsher punishments than Whites for very similar crimes. This shows that it may not only be one part of the system that are treating African Americans badly. There are multiple areas that misuse their power against them and this didn’t just start to occur recently this had been occurring for years.

For decades, America’s attention has been turned to the deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement. The roots of the outrage & unrest that often follow such killings go back much, much, much further. It is very obvious that there is a difficult relationship between law enforcement & the communities we are sworn to serve and protect. There are tons of studies proving police are implicitly biased against African Americans. Racism in law enforcement has had disastrous effects on society as evidenced by recent cases in the U.S.

Today, I look back to everything that has happened and how did I come to the thoughts and opinions I have about politics. Family was a primary influence in the development of my political orientation, mainly due to constant relationship between my parents and I. Schools became a source to enforce what I been hearing at home. Then Mass Media took over and tried to paint a picture of functions as a political information-giver to adolescents and young children. With placing political figures in everyday life and association with political parties, I can only imagine what their goal was. The earliest

The purpose of this research was to establish an existing correlation between social class and political views. This study is a combination of research showing that class does in fact carry influence on political views. In order for the field of sociology to stay flourishing, it is vital that we research new ideas and variables often and see how they relate to one another. It is sociologically relevant because it has not been extensively researched on its own, this is one of the first studies in which the two variables were linked to be examined. I found many sociological articles that addressed either one or the other, but I set out to research information that would connect them both. This study will prove that there is in fact an existing correlation between subjective class identification and political views.

The year was 2015 and I just sat down in the 9th-grade social studies class, government. Nothing truly exciting or life-changing happened right away, we were just taught` how the government worked and so on. Then we are told we will be doing a class election but before we start working on the project, we need to learn a little about ourselves. In order to really see what we believe in we are given a couple quiz like things to see where our answers put us and I learn that most of my views would be considered conservative and at this time I really didn’t know what that meant, but I notice that a lot of my friends had the same results, they were conservative. This all made sense when I thought about it because when you are spending anywhere

I am considered a leaning conservative according to the results after our in class poll. I would not say my family had much influence on me considering they are all strict conservatives and I possess a small amount of liberalism. I was too young to completely understand politics until I was around 10 years old when Barack obama came into office. I'm a headstrong conservative that believes in personal responsibility and traditional Amercian values. I do not have much trust in the government and msot liberals think that government should handle all problems.

Abstract: Political identity is a major factor in shaping one’s identity and some of the main theories used in developing and discussing this identity are the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective, Social Stratification, and Social status. Some of the characteristics of the social structures that regularly frame the political identity will be discussed such as one’s occupation and education level. Levels of social stratification will be discussed in relation to the political identity as well as factors during our lives that help to define and shape our political identities.

I come from a liberal family. I participate in liberal groups. I voted for Hillary. Yet I am a conservative.

In today’s day and age, everyone that you talk to seems to have a strong political identity. They are either with one side or another and have a strong reason as to why they side with the side that they do. I know that this is not that normal for the times that we are in. I know that being 22 years old that in the eyes of many, I should really have a side and be able to stand with that side and be able to defend why I stand with that side. Following the 45th presidential election I have found that it is even more uncommon to not have a strong political stance and I have been told over and over that I really need to form one and stand with it.

The individual difference factor presented by Hibbing, Smith & Alford; Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology, is political ideology, that is . In a reasonably unbiased and uncontroversial definition, political ideology is namely a “a set of beliefs about the proper order of society and how it can be achieved” (Erikson & Tedin, 2003). Primarily this refers to; , this can refer to an individual’s preferences referringregarding to leadership, social constructs, economical values, personal beliefs, and ethics., to name a few influences. It is because o f Due to these contributing factors that political ideology is considered an individual difference, as the factors includedinvolved in making up one’s mind about

Growing up in a very conservative household within an increasingly liberal society, I've had difficulty identifying my own political beliefs. I’ve been taught to pick a side: the left or right. That mindset has always left me torn and confused, but I have discovered that I don’t want to choose. I am a moderate. For me, politics is about my own values and my own ideologies, not whether my values are specifically conservative or liberal. I have a more liberal view on issues such as same-sex marriage, the death penalty, and abortion. And I have more conservative views on taxes, the free market system, and welfare. What I believe should not be swayed by trying to affiliate myself with a particular political party. I don’t fit perfectly into the

Political trust as a concept is widely used and analysed in political sciences. However, there seems to be no clear consensus regarding the definition of political trust and its application in current empirical studies. As is most often the case, one has to consider the trade-off between a theoretical approach, where a substantiated definition of political trust is paramount, and a more pragmatic approach, which is primarily driven by the data at hand. In this study, I will mostly adhere to the pragmatic approach. The reasoning is that theoretical concepts and causal relationships quickly become very complex, which makes it increasingly difficult to construct an operationalisation where the complexity is captured within empirically measurable entities and characteristics.

Political attitudes refer to the different attitudes that people have on areas of their lives affected by political psychology. This includes their views on political conservatism, nationalism, political liberalism etc. Many factors, which include a person’s sexual orientation, their gender, their race, their socio-economic status etc., influence different political attitudes. In the United States, the attitudes of most citizens fall under two categories, which are extreme liberalism or extreme conservatism.