Ashley: I personally believe that, though we may lack knowledge on many issues, it is possible that when we are presented with issues within numerous contexts, that our opinion of the issue may change. For example, I may normally hold strong opinions regarding abortion and I may identify as conservative in which if you asked me on any given day I will support pro-life. However, if you approached me with a question that established a situation in which the mother could die from giving birth or the child would following the pregnancy, I may switch my opinion and approve of an abortion. This may look like my opinions are changing, however, it is not because I am unknowledgeable but rather that the context in which I normally approached these opinions has changed. Also, how important to your final grade is it that people are generally knowledgeable about most political opinions affiliated with their party?
Speaker: I believe that many beliefs coincide with one another and because of this should be consistent with one’s political identification.
Ashley: Suppose I am knowledgeable about issues I classify as important to me however, fall short on other political issues my party affiliation would consider essential to their beliefs system, would I still receive a failing grade?
Speaker: What do you think?
Ashley: I think that it is an unreasonable
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Ashley: Basically, your grading scale needs to be curved to account for the individual importance of issues as well as the context that is being provided within your questions and within the current political climate at the time of your questions. When you account for these factors I believe you will find that answers are more consistent and knowledgeable. However, if your requirements of a passing grade require individuals to always make well informed opinions about all political issues important to their party, you would definitely be handing out numerous failing grades, including one to
I had my boyfriend who is a 20-year-old junior here at TCU take the Ideology Quiz. He expected, like myself, to be moderately conservative, and interestingly enough he also received the same results as I did on my quiz. He like me and 13% of the population is a “Young Outsider.” He also agreed that the exam was very extreme and as he was taking it he said that he felt that it was making him “sound more liberal than conservative.” We differed in some opinions on government performance, social values & race, and Foreign Policy & Privacy. Even within those categories we only differed on one or two questions. So I would say our political ideology is very similar. I also decided to ask my mom to take the quiz just so see how her results differed from mine. Her results were “Steadfast Conservative,” which didn’t surprise me at all. As we talked about in class, usually kids have very similar ideologies as their parents, although that is not always the case. Although I am more conservative than liberal, I believe because of my age and generation I also have some liberal ideologies which is why my mother and I do not have the same
While taking the course Contemporary Public Issues, I have gained a vast amount of knowledge on the subject of political ideologies and have seen the different ideologies explained, criticized, and commended from several diverse viewpoints as I participated in the class discussions and read the selected course readings. These readings and class discussions have greatly influenced my ideological preferences. After evaluating the assigned course readings and reflecting on the class discussions that were held, I have come to the conclusion that I possess both liberal and conservative ideological preferences including: government action should take place to ensure equal opportunity, change should happen slowly over time, and religion should be a private issue. Although I possess both liberal and conservative ideological preferences, I feel that I lean more towards liberal tendencies when it comes to
Assume that Foster is right and “it is all political.” Use his criteria to show that one of the major works assigned to you as a freshman, sophomore, or junior is political.
According to the Pew Research Center, partisan polarization has been an issue for many Americans for a long period of time. Meaning, that those Americans are not in complete agreement with either republican or democratic parties, their ideas, and standards. In response, the Pew Research Center made an anonymous survey in an attempt to find and categorize people’s typology. If one were to take the quiz, their answers would create the their new typology and show how it may correspond with either partisan parties. When I took the Pew Research Center quiz, I found out that I am in the Faith and Family Left typology category. I agree with my given typology to a certain extent. Due to the limited number of answers of the quiz and the way questions were worded, it forced me to make uncomfortable choices, which weakened my ability to agree with my results. Although, the quiz did include all government issues and involvements, I think the most prominent issue is foreign involvement, specifically, the Islamic State in which the government will have to become more active and continue to be involved in with the Islamic State.
After learning about the different sides and actually understanding their views I can see more clearly now how I seem to identify with both parties. When we took the quiz in the beginning of the unit, I had really no idea about the difference between a Republican and Democrat besides that one was more conservative and other was more liberal not even knowing the differences between the political ideologies and the political parties. When I talk about politics with people, I feel that knowing where I stand on the political spectrum will be helpful to me because I will be able to make more educated statements and viewpoints to others within this
I would say that this is quite an accurate representation of my political ideology. Despite not having all the same views as the majority of this group holds, I deeply align with many of them. For example, this group is slightly more conservative and leans toward the Republican party, but holds the opinions of both parties, which is an accurate assessment. I believe that I am mostly conservative, but I also hold a lot of mixed views espoused by both political parties. The Young outsiders are largely skeptical of activist government, which I believe to be true, which proves the quiz results accurate. Environmental and liberal social policies are also supported by this group, many of which I also support, once again, consistent with my results. This evidence proves that I am consistently aligned as a Young Outsider based upon my own personal views which agrees with the results of the typology
After taking the, Political Party Quiz, I checked the results and found out I stand very far to the right on the political spectrum. This surprised me mostly because the majority of my family falls further on the left side. Researching the issues on the quiz soon after I realized that I have been exposed to many of these prior to the quiz. While on some of the issues I had a sure answer, there were quite a few that I hadn’t really ever heard of.
At first I was a little bit confused on what we were doing until everyone in the class started to give their opinions and voting. I did not understand very well the one that was about the payments for agricultural producers, but I voted to not keep it. Even though, I did not understand it I saw that everyone was pretty certain about not continuing to give money for this. My peers' opinions influenced my decision. This reminds me of what we talked about in class around 3 weeks ago. We were talking about how some people who do not know Trump or Clinton very well because of the lack of politics involvement, would have voted for Clinton for the way she expressed herself in the debates, even though they do not know what she is
The topic of aborting an innocent fetus has been overwhelmingly controversial in the United States. The two sides to this ongoing debate is pro-life advocates and pro-choice advocates. Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus; whether it is an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. Abortions are most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy and can be performed as a medical or surgical procedure. Medical abortions include two types of abortion pills; while the surgical procedures include vacuum aspiration and dilation and evacuation. Ultimately, I am one of the many “pro-lifers”, and I strongly agree that abortion should be illegal because it negatively affects our people. Women across the nation are becoming impregnated and following a short amount of judgement time, turn to abortion to solve their problems but in the end hurt themselves with this decision. Abortions should be illegal because it is immoral and unconstitutional, causes severe mental and physical issues, and negatively impacts the economy. “During the ancient Roman times it has been supposed that abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as our civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life”
What is abortion? An abortion is a medical or surgical procedure used to terminate a pregnancy. A medical abortion is an abortion that is brought about by taking medications that will end a pregnancy. (1) A Surgical abortion is an abortion which ends a pregnancy by emptying the uterus (or womb) with special instruments. (1) Some of the reasons for a woman to get an abortion may be that they can't afford a/another child, health reason of the child's or her own safety, social reasons such as unwanted child or not ready for having a child, and rape or incest. Abortions performed in the seven to nine weeks of the first trimester are medical abortions. (2) All abortions after nine weeks are surgical abortions. Surgical abortions are
Did you know 80% of women abort their kid if they have down syndrome? Abortion is where they end the baby’s life well it is still in the womb. Abortion has been an issue since the 1960’s and continues to grow today. About 1/4 of pregnancies end in abortion and 1/3 of americans before the age of 45 have gotten an abortion. ( (Guttmacher.) Abortion should be illegal considering the reasons for it, ethics and medical effects.
A population’s views on political issues may change as different circumstances occur each day. The environment around us has a powerful influence on the decisions that we produce and the views that we as American citizens choose to hold. After a semester in political science class my views and my political ideology have altered. Today I will explain how political science class has influenced my political ideology.
To see what other factors play a role in individual's beliefs is important for a political figure to take in consideration when proposing bills or campaigning for office in order to respond and appeal to their voters.
The topic covered in this research paper is abortion. This paper looks into the history of abortion, the pro-life view of abortion and the pro-choice view of abortion. Under history of abortion the information included is the time line of significant events of abortion such as becoming legal, also different ways in ancient times women would try to use abortions. The upgrading of technology making abortion safer and even if abortion was illegal women would still find a way to abort a baby are also covered under the history of abortion. Under pro-life choice for abortion looks into abortion murder, the rights of human and the rights of the unborn and that a women doesn't have a right to terminate her own fetus. Under pro- choice
My views on politics haven’t changed much throughout the class. I was expected a liberal leaning curriculum, it’s no secret that most college campuses are liberal. Most of the ideas we covered were not new to me. The background for the readings were very insightful however. The readings reaffirmed my political views with articulate readings from the myriad of authors. Is was great to participate in a serious conversation of what is democratic socialism. Is was great to have a professor that is passionate about her field. Views I had about sexuality, race, and gender were supported in some the readings as well.