Political Socialization : Religious Values Vs. Personal Relationships

I am going to tell you my Political Ideology in this essay today. I would like to consider myself a Conservative, but the number one thing for me would be what that person said and what they planned on doing. If anything, I don't really care if they are Liberal or Conservative, what really matters is what they are planning on doing, but I guess I'm going to have to decide what I am. A Liberal... Conservative... or Libertarian.

During our time in the northeast my grandfather battled cancer and upon his passing, wanting to be close to our family we headed back to Texas. In the lone star state, my new community is a close knit town where every kid is a dragon and with only one high school each child grows up with dragon pride. In elementary school we learned to be good citizens and were reflections of the sacrifices from previous generations. By the examples set forth we grew up learning by blessing others we are truly blessed ourselves. As I reached a middle school I was introduced to Christian Clubs and organizations which set up our faith in the community that continued all

As a young high school student I felt it was important for me to know more about politics because it can have an effect on what decisions I make in life. I figured by selecting an AP History course my junior year that could be a start in me learning about politics. While the AP History course was the gateway into me discovering more about politics, I gained a lot of knowledge while during my senior project. My senior project consisted of a ten page research paper with and a ten minute oral presentation on your topic. I choose to write about how the CIA promoted political instability in the Middle East as my senior project topic. It was an interesting topic that made me realize why it is important for young adults such as myself to become aware of

Growing up, I was surrounded by a constant stream of information and discussion about current events. My father is a lawyer and is actively involved in the political community. The constant talk of government and community activism in my home had a major contribution on how I started to plan my future endeavors. The desire

Social political. My socio-political position has often been aligned with that of my parents. As a middle-class family, they have always voted for the Liberal political party of Canada. I have voted for Liberal in the past election. I believe that this party has a platform that is closely aligned with my beliefs and values. The current political party has made a priority to engage with younger Canadian citizens, as we are the future and hold an important role. There is importance for the missing and murdered indigenous women, preventing domestic violence and sexual assault, post-secondary education for those who cannot afford it, promoting health, and help with employment. These are all things that must be improved and changed in our society

Most people are exposed to the same principals and agents of political socialization. Families spread values that support political authorities and can heavily contribute to children's initial political ideological views, or party preferences. Families influence political knowledge and identification depending on variables such as family demographics, life cycle, parenting style, parental level of political skepticism and frequency of political discussions. Demographics such as gender and age also attribute to political socialization. School is another agent of political socialization. Spending numerous years in school, children in the United States are taught and reinforced a view of the world that their text books tell them to trust. Through primary, secondary and high schools, students are taught key principles such as individual rights and property, personal responsibility and duty to their nation. Another is mass media. Mass media is not only a source of political information; it is an influence on political values and beliefs. Various media outlets, through news coverage and late-night programs, provide different partisan policy stances that are associated with political participation. Religions, beliefs, and practices play a role in political opinion formation and political participation. The perspective offered by religious institutions shape judgement regarding public policy, and political decision

Today, I look back to everything that has happened and how did I come to the thoughts and opinions I have about politics. Family was a primary influence in the development of my political orientation, mainly due to constant relationship between my parents and I. Schools became a source to enforce what I been hearing at home. Then Mass Media took over and tried to paint a picture of functions as a political information-giver to adolescents and young children. With placing political figures in everyday life and association with political parties, I can only imagine what their goal was. The earliest

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.

This had to be one of the most challenging and even frightening subject to critique and analyze because of the passion and fiery debate with either side being immensely clinging towards their ideas. I began to grow in curiosity around seventh grade when I became interested in things such as the military, political parties, and the discovery of who I am and what I stand for ( pretty big subjects for only being about thirteen). What I believe really started off as the catalyst to break through the barriers holding me back was the clash of beliefs with my school and family.

Finally I receive my political socialization from school. This is another big one, because like family, school will be a huge part of your life. As you grow your friends and yourself will start forming there own opinions. These opinions will shape who you are as a person. Your friends and teachers might shape how you view things because you might see it from a different perspective and realize you like one idea more than another. Also you might learn about history of people that used to live in the past and then form a different opinion on society and how a society should function and

     When this class initially began I was sure, without a doubt I was a conservative. As the semester progressed I discovered the reasons I was considered conservative. The town a person grows up in, financial status, social class, age, gender and the race of the individual have a strong influence on a individuals

When I was younger, my political beliefs were largely influenced by my parents, and as ardently Republican as they come. My father, a self-proclaimed historian, passed his immeasurable passion for political science and philosophy on to me from an early age. Through the paradigm of conservatism, he believed in an infinitesimal government, and as most children do, I mimicked his beliefs. Until my freshman year, I held those convictions almost as strongly as he did, and t wasn’t until I began volunteering at my local hospital that I began to explore political perspectives different from the ones I had known.

I have not had much interest in politics until recently. Before last year, I did not care for anything related to politics; I thought that it was all boring and had little to no affect on me on a personal level. I am more interested in politics nowadays. I know better now that it does affect me and I should care about it. I had learned about the concepts of political socialization, party identification, political tolerance, political trust, political efficacy in government class and how they affect my political beliefs. My personal political belief has been shaped into what it is today and is still being shaped because of those six concepts.

I started my search based off my long held interest in politics, and the issues that affect the way we govern. So I boiled that down to the entities that decide when and what we govern. Political Parties. After I had my subject I looked at the three things I believe political parties play a role in. The three areas of interest I chose were our political parties role in our history, economics, and religion, and what factors in those areas determine how political parties’ function.

Growing up in a very conservative household within an increasingly liberal society, I've had difficulty identifying my own political beliefs. I’ve been taught to pick a side: the left or right. That mindset has always left me torn and confused, but I have discovered that I don’t want to choose. I am a moderate. For me, politics is about my own values and my own ideologies, not whether my values are specifically conservative or liberal. I have a more liberal view on issues such as same-sex marriage, the death penalty, and abortion. And I have more conservative views on taxes, the free market system, and welfare. What I believe should not be swayed by trying to affiliate myself with a particular political party. I don’t fit perfectly into the