Personalization Of Politics

As society rapidly changes with an influx of new ideas and issues, studying the college educated and those who are not will help evaluate behaviors and attitudes towards the government, ultimately, clearing the way to adaption into a modern society that perhaps offer remedies of educational and voting discrepancies or even close the gaps between political ideology or identification. Hence, this paper proposes the research question: How does education level influence political party identification.

Malcolm Gladwell argues through social media “the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate and give voice to their concerns,” but ultimately concedes this collaboration doesn’t provide enough social motivation to act (Gladwell,

Political socialization begins early on in life and is an ongoing process affecting individuals throughout. It is how people eventually identify personal beliefs and expectations in American politics. These political views can include our level of patriotism, faith in the democratic system, standards by which we hold governing bodies, and opinions regarding public policies. From the playground to the classroom, the office to the dinner table, much of our lives affect our political opinions. The most easily identified agents of this are family, schooling, peers, mass media, political parties and religious influences. Furthermore, these means indoctrinate us in the political society through four basic

Do you believe young athletes should earn participation trophies? According to "Trophies For All Policy," youth athletes are being rewarded with participation trophies. There can be positive and negative results from earning a participation trophy. But, not everyone can be rewarded for nothing. Some parents believe earning participation trophies could help boost some young athletes confidence, but is that what sports are all about though? Youth sports are not just about winning or earning a trophy, it is mostly about playing the game and enjoying yourself.

Current and revolutionary events around the world raise two questions: What role does social media play in these revolutions? Should we credit social media with the outcomes of these events just because they are somewhat involved? In “Small Change,” by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell stresses how modern-day social media websites are of no comparison to the strong bonds and hierarchies that contributed to most of the reformation that happened during the Civil Rights Movement. He suggests that social media websites have networking opportunities only. “Reforming Egypt in 140 Characters,” an article by Dennis Baron, supports this claim indirectly by stating that even though social media can get the word out, no website can replace the voices of people, or their rebellious spirit. I concur with both authors. People can use Facebook and Twitter all they want in order to spread the word, but without their thoughts and intuitions, these networks are useless.

Mark Granovetter, a sociologist had once said “Our Acquaintances, not our friends, are our greatest source of new ideas and information”. With social media it reinvented social activism, and it is making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate, and give voice to their concerns. Although the platforms of social media are built around weak ties because of distant connections that all leads to high risks activism. In the early sixties events such as the sit in have became a civil-rights war that happened in the South for the rest of the decade and with that it happened without social media.

Those who call on democracy use social media as one of the most powerful weapons for them to protest because of its extensibility. They can easily organize a protest through Twitter or facebook. However, not everyone use social media as the tool for democracy, they also use it to meet their other interests. As Bremmer says, “The tools of modern communications satisfy as wide a range of ambitious and appetites as their twentieth-century ancestors did, and many of these ambitious and appetites do not have anything to do with democracy”(43). The phrase “ambitious and appetites” illustrate what people mostly obtain from social media, which has something to do with their own desires.

About fifteen years ago, I heard God call me to go back to school; shortly after being diagnosed with

Political socialization is “the way in which individuals acquire the information, beliefs, attitudes and values that help them comprehend the operations of the American political system” (Socialization, Slide 2). In short, this is how Americans get their political knowledge from those four sources. The family plays the biggest role in the knowledge of an individual. Children typically spend the most time with their parents and they learn their parental attitudes. This shapes later of how they will think politically in life. Schools teach us the citizenship skills and democratic norms. Some of these political norms include symbols like pictures of American heroes or the American flag (Erikson and Tedin, 132). Schools shape how the person will use these skills and norms in life. During pre-adult socialization, political knowledge and support for democratic values is very weak among the youth. Only fifty-two percent are aware of religious freedom, while fifty percent say that the government can censor the Internet (Socialization, Slide 7). Another reason of why some citizens would lack political knowledge is according to the minimal effects model. This model believes that voters only pay attention to candidates that they

Most Americans with higher education have become more and more freedom in the past few decades. Much delicate evidence proves that college could extend students’ tolerance so that they could own more freedom attitudes on social issues about accepting nation differences and refusing gender discrimination (Kurtzleben.) Then, Kurtzleben lists three reasons why this might happen. First, the whole country is becoming more ideologically polarized. People with higher education tend to be a more consistent ideology; this could mean that they particularly easily affected by polarization forces (Kurtzleben.) Second, women are another possibility, it is likely to be more and more women get college and advanced degrees, and women usually tend to vote for Democrats than men (Kurtzleben.) The third reason is insularity. Easy to see, if all your friends have strong willing to support democratic party, and you can quickly change mind from Republic party to Democratic party (Kurtzleben.) Kurtzleben claims why the majority of highly educated people more liberal than ordinary citizens from polarization, women and insularity

The dynamics of friendship can affect many things, the social influences can be subtle and unnoticed but huge. A 2016 survey was done on the likelyhood to go to or finish college and pick political views is often greatly deciphered by the choices of the majority of one’s social group. The study shed great light on how ritualistically our primary social groups still often dictate much of our actions.

Social media is effective at improving the efficiency of existing social orders, and helps organize and support social movements. Indeed, social media is often credited with the ability to improve existing collective actions because it creates adaptable networks (Gladwell, 2010), provides anonymity for freedom of expression (Postmes & Brunsting, 2004), and organizes actions to garner greater support (Starbird & Palen, 2012). Perhaps the most compelling evidence of social media at work originates from the 2011 Egyptian revolution where

Family, peer and level of education are major influence in voting for elections and relates to agent of political socialization. Political socialization is a person’s political belief and opinion that are influenced through family, peer groups, and mass media. The agent of political socialization are more like our values and what we have been taught, seen, or heard from our parents, friends, teachers, colleagues, and social groups. The agents help us determine if we are Democrats or Republicans when we are eligible to vote. These factors also influence social economics. For example, low income household tends to favor government role in economy or conservative while those who have high income tends to favor limited government or

In our democratic system, the family has the strongest partisan attitudes. While a citizen is at school, citizenship and democratic norms are learned. We need these norms to better understand of what it means to be a active citizens, while living in a democracy. Some studies have shown that “open classroom” discussion lead to the youth to be more tolerant about issues (Socialization, 7). So, democracy does depend on citizen in school to be more knowledgeable. Being in college also lets someone be more open-minded. Another study showed the difference between youth’s attending college and youth’s not attending college. When it comes to registered to vote, liberal, 9/11 made them mistrust the government, attending a political rally, being involved in politics is an honor, approving abortion for any reason and allowing antireligionist to teach in college, we see people going to college on these issues with a higher score than people not in college (Socialization, Slide 12). Noncollege people scored high on disapproving Bush’s immigration policy, favoring school prayer and women are not suited for politics. According to this study, people in college like to be involved in politics, because it’s an honor for them to be in it. They also are more engaged in attending a politically rally as the results show. Therefore, as we go on through schooling, we gain more knowledge of politics. We also engage in political

The term ‘politics’ itself has changed over many years. To ask if the evolution of political culture changes how people participate in politics is simple. The answer is yes. To begin with, let’s define political culture; ‘Authors define the term political culture as the particular distribution of patterns of orientation towards political objects among the members of a nation’ (Almond and Verba 1963: 13 cited in Welzel and Inglehart, 2014 p.285). Now let’s define culture; ‘the term culture covers a broad set of phenomena. It includes traditions, habits, and patterns of behaviour shaped by a society’s prevailing beliefs, norms and values’ (Nolan and Lenski, 1999 cited in Welzel and Inglehart, 2014 p.285). Taking this into account, examples of culture could be how to play hopscotch in a playground or following the rules to a game of tennis or badminton. To address the question, this essay will firstly assess how any capable individual is able to participate in politics and secondly if the growth of political culture has increased or decreased participation.