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Today's Essential Question: What factors influence the acquisition of political beliefs and ideology?
Learning Standards:
MPA-1.B: Explain how cultural factors influence political attitudes and socialization.
MPA-1.B.1: Family, schools, peers, media, and social environments (including civic and religious organizations) contribute to the development of an individual’s political attitudes and values through the process of political socialization.
MPA-1.B.2: As a result of globalization, U.S. political culture has both influenced and been influenced by the values of other countries.
MPA-1.B.3: Generational and lifecycle effects also contribute to the political socialization that influences an individual’s political attitudes.
MPA-1.B.4: The relative importance of major political events to the development of individual political attitudes is an example of political socialization.
Political Socialization
How did you become liberal or conservative? What factors, life experiences, or other influences helped shape your political beliefs? Political socialization is the process of acquiring and developing your political ideology.
There are many factors that help determine your political beliefs. These agents of political socialization include:
1. Family---The aggregate student results and the results from Parent Pew Survey . Similarities? Differences? Surprises?
2. Education--liberalizing effect of college? Textbooks?
3. Peers
4. Media--echo chamber?
5. Religion
6. Age/generational effects--what effect might 9/11 have on someone's ideology? The recession of 2009?
Based on each of the following charts, what conclusion can you make?
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