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A quality of mind for people to use information to develop reason to make connections between what is going on in the world and what is happening to themselves.
The ability to understand that…
things that are largely outside our control affect our everyday lives in ways that are sometimes not immediately apparent.
The ability to accurately analyze how…
our personal biographies are a function of social history. |
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A quality of mind for people to use information to develop reason to make connections between what is going on in the world and what is happening to themselves.
The ability to understand that…
things that are largely outside our control affect our everyday lives in ways that are sometimes not immediately apparent.
The ability to accurately analyze how…
our personal biographies are a function of social history. |
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| The study of culture and politics (or political culture) |
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| focuses on how ideas of power develop among citizens, where political knowledge comes from, how these ideas are communicated, and what effect these ideas, beliefs, and symbols have on society. |
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| Political socialization and period effects/influences (periods of historical change) |
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| effect political values, which in turn help inform and influence decisions and behaviors. |
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| Socioeconomic, technological, and political changes over the last decade |
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| have fundamentally reshaped the political values of citizens of Western developed nations. |
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| Political Values (cont’d) |
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| For examples, differences in birth cohorts between materialists (born before WWII) and post-materialists (born after WWII). |
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| Post-materialists, shaped by technology, have different beliefs on _____ _____ and ________, and tend to be motivated by ________ choices, ______, and belonging rather than economic/physical security. |
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political communities
mobilization
lifestyle
self-expression |
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| Developed nations with advanced economic systems tend to preserve values related to openness, independence, and belief in science/medicine, belief in education, punctuality/orderliness, and civic affairs. |
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| Developed nations with advanced economic systems tend to preserve values related to openness, independence, and belief in science/medicine, belief in education, punctuality/orderliness, and civic affairs. |
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| Religion and political values – over the past fifty years, religion has changed and influenced politics in the following ways: |
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Mainline churches are in decline while conservative denominations are growing.
Many of these new conservative denominations are politically active and play a significant role in the political arena. |
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| The “arrangement of values and belief systems that citizens, policymakers, leaders, and even nonparticipants create about power and power structures” (92). |
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| “the generalized process by which the struggle over power in society is resolved.” |
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| “individual, group, or structural capacity to achieve intended effects as a result of force, influence, or authority.” |
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| Power is intimately connected with economic structures and is manifest in economic structures such as capitalist, owners of capital, and corporations. |
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| Power is connected to both economic and noneconomic structures and is manifest in everyday social spaces and social institutions such as modern bureaucracies, religion, and political parties. |
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| Focuses on any social phenomenon that deals with the state and institutions, power, conflict and competition among stakeholders, and political associations. |
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| The social class perspective views power as: |
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concentrated in the hands of the few;
defined by the economic interests (i.e., capital, labor, markets, raw materials);
founded in the control and distribution of resources based on social class, specifically the capitalist class. |
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