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American Politics and Government
Political Ideology and Political Socialization
Political Ideology
What is it?
– Ideology: Underlying personal position (ideal point) used to determine specific issue position
What influences it?
– Family
– Media
– Church
– School
Measurements
• One-Dimensional
•
– Liberal-Conservative Scale
– Left-Right Scale
– French Parliament
– Seven-Point Scale
Two-Dimensional
– Social and Economic Axes
Political Labels
• One-Dimensional
•
– Revolutionary
– Liberal
– Moderate
– Conservative
– Reactionary
Two-Dimensional
– Economic Axis:
• Communism
– (Economic Control)
– Social Axis:
• Authoritarianism
– (Social Control)
Political Socialization
• What is it?
•
– The formation and Change in political ideology.
– Used to indoctrinate people into the political culture.
What factors affect it?
– The same factors that influence it.
• Family
• Media
• Church
• School
• Liberalism
– (Economic Freedom)
• Anarchism
– (Social Freedom)
Thoughts and Questions
• When does socialization take place?
• Is socialization a good thing or a bad thing?
• Is socialization brainwashing?
• Does the dominant cultural ideology change from country to country, region to region?
• Can ideologies or political theories, per se, be right or wrong? What are the consequences of this?
• Why can there be considered three axes of ideology: social, economic, and extremist?
• What is the difference between ‘wrong’ and ‘unsupported’ (or ‘true’ and ‘supported’)?