Political Socialization

What is political socialization?

• All the people who might be interest group members because they share the same common interest.
• The process through which an individual acquires his/her particular orientations - his/her knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his/her political world.
• How similar cases have been decided in the past.
• The distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.

Most of us gain our basic attitudes that shape our political opinions from

• the media
• church
• friends
• family

We learn the basics of the democratic process and gain a full background in the U.S. political system here.

• At home
• In school
• On t.v.
• With our friends

The process by which people form their political attitudes

• Media

• Political Socialization

• Public Agenda

• Intensity

A method of systematically polling a selected group of people who are representative of the total population

• Media

• Public Agenda

• Sampling

• Political Socialization

Most commonly understood to embrace national government solutions to public problems

• Media

• Public Agenda

• Conservative

• Liberal

Most commonly understood to embrace solutions by the private sector for public problems

• Liberal

• Conservative

• Public Agenda

• Media

Keeping citizens informed and holding leaders accountable is the primary role of the

• Public Agenda

• Sampling

• Media

• Conservative

An organized group of individuals who make policy-related appeals to government

• Media

• Public Agenda

• Interest Groups

• Bureaucracy

The study of American BLANK aims to understand the distribution of the population's beliefs about politics and policy issues.

• people

• ideology

• public opinion

• demography