Political Socialization

the complex process by which people acquire their political values.

• Political Socialization

• Political Parties

• Liberalism

• Socialism

Political Socialization is a continuous and universal process.

• True

• False

What is learned first is learned best

• Primacy Principle

• Structuring Principle

• Liberalism

• Political Socialization

What is learned first structures later learning.

• Primacy Principle

• Socialism

• Political Typology

• Structuring Principle

Includes newspaper and television news for the older American’s source of political news, while younger Americans are more likely to rely on radio, magazines or the Internet.

• Communism

• Early Socialization

• Continuing Socialization

• Political Parties

All people are socialized in the same way by the same forces.

• True

• False

The idea that people choose what benefits them personally—plays an obvious role in how people form opinions on government policies.

• Opinion Schema

• Political Parties

• Self-Interest Principle

• Conservatism

The network of organized knowledge and beliefs that guide a person’s processing of information regarding a particular subject.

• Libertarianism

• Opinion Schema

• Self-Interest Principle

• Political Socialization

Much of our political information comes from the mass media: newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, Internet

• Media Socialization

• Political Parties

• Political Typology

• Libertarianism

A distinctive and patterned way of thinking about how political and economic life ought to be carried out

• Political Socialization

• Political Parties

• Republican Party

• Political Culture